Network Security Engineer

Experience : 7 - 10 years.

Location : Bangalore.

Employment Type : Full-time.

Role Summary :

We are looking for a senior offensive security professional with strong expertise in red team operations, adversary emulation, black-box network penetration testing, cloud penetration testing, phishing simulations, C2 operations, and custom exploit development.

The role requires hands-on capability to simulate real-world attacker behavior, develop attack paths, bypass security controls in authorized environments, and deliver high-quality technical findings with practical remediation guidance.

Key Responsibilities :

- Lead red team, adversary emulation, black-box network, cloud, and infrastructure penetration testing engagements.

- Plan and execute attack scenarios covering reconnaissance, initial access, exploitation, privilege escalation, lateral movement, persistence, and objective-based actions.

- Use adversary emulation platforms and C2 frameworks such as Cobalt Strike, Sliver, Mythic, Havoc, Metasploit, and similar tools in authorized assessments.

- Design and execute phishing simulation campaigns, payload delivery scenarios, and initial access simulations.

- Perform custom exploit development, exploit modification, payload customization, and proof-of-concept development for identified vulnerabilities.

- Conduct Active Directory and hybrid identity attack simulations, including credential attacks, lateral movement, privilege escalation, and domain compromise scenarios.

- Perform cloud penetration testing across AWS, Azure, and GCP, focusing on IAM abuse, exposed assets, storage misconfigurations, insecure networking, excessive permissions, and privilege escalation paths.

- Assess endpoint, network, identity, cloud, and email security controls from an attackers perspective.

- Support purple team and detection validation exercises by mapping techniques to MITRE ATT&CK.

- Prepare detailed reports covering attack chains, exploited weaknesses, business impact, evidence, and remediation recommendations.

- Present findings and attack narratives to technical teams, leadership, and client stakeholders.

- Mentor junior team members and contribute to red team playbooks, tooling, labs, and methodologies.

Required Skills :

- Strong hands-on expertise in red teaming, adversary emulation, black-box testing, network penetration testing, and cloud pentesting.

- Practical experience with C2 and adversary emulation platforms such as Cobalt Strike, Sliver, Mythic, Havoc, Metasploit, Covenant, or similar frameworks.

- Experience in phishing simulations, payload delivery, social engineering assessments, and initial access simulation.

- Ability to perform custom exploit development, exploit chaining, payload customization, and proof-of-concept creation.

- Strong knowledge of Active Directory attack techniques, including Kerberoasting, AS-REP roasting, NTLM relay, pass-the-hash, pass-the-ticket, delegation abuse, ACL abuse, and domain escalation paths.

- Good understanding of cloud attack techniques across AWS, Azure, and GCP, including IAM abuse, storage exposure, metadata service abuse, key leakage, role assumption, and privilege escalation.

- Experience with tools such as BloodHound, Mimikatz, Impacket, NetExec/CrackMapExec, Responder, Evilginx, GoPhish, Nmap, Masscan, Nessus, Burp Suite, Wireshark, Hashcat, Hydra, Pacu, Prowler, ScoutSuite, AzureHound, ROADtools etc.

- Scripting and automation skills in Python, PowerShell, Bash, Go, or C/C++.

- Good understanding of OPSEC, payload handling, evasion concepts, attack path mapping, and detection-aware testing.

- Strong reporting, stakeholder communication, and client-facing skills.

Good to Have :

- Experience with EDR/AV evasion testing in authorized environments.

- Experience with malware analysis, reverse engineering, or implant customization.

- Exposure to Kubernetes, Docker, and container security assessments.

- Experience conducting purple team exercises and detection engineering support.

- Certifications such as OSCP, OSEP, GPEN, GXPN, PNPT, eCPPT or CEH.

Skills

Security, Network Security, Network Infrastructure, Penetration Testing, Active Directory, Nessus, WIRESHARK, Vulnerability Management, Cloud Testing, OSCP