Deloitte US

Work You’ll Do

• Engagement scoping & planning: Partner with stakeholders to define objectives, rules of engagement, in-scope assets, testing windows, and success criteria; ensure testing is authorized and safely executed.
• Reconnaissance & enumeration: Perform passive and active discovery of attack surface, services, endpoints, APIs, and misconfigurations; map trust boundaries and data flows.
• Manual application testing: Conduct deep testing of web apps, mobile apps (as applicable), and application programming interfaces (APIs), aligned to OWASP Top 10 and common design/implementation flaws.
• Vulnerability validation & exploitation: Safely verify findings and demonstrate impact (where permitted), including:
• Cross-site scripting (XSS)
• SQL injection (SQLi)
• Cross-site request forgery (CSRF)
• Server-side request forgery (SSRF)
• Authentication and authorization flaws (e.g., broken access control, privilege escalation)
• Session management issues, insecure deserialization, security misconfiguration, and business logic vulnerabilities
• Network and infrastructure testing: Identify and validate weaknesses such as exposed services, weak segmentation, insecure protocols, credential issues, and misconfigurations across on-prem and cloud assets.
• Post-exploitation analysis (when in scope): Assess blast radius, lateral movement paths, sensitive data exposure, and persistence risks; collect evidence responsibly and minimize operational impact.
• Reporting & remediation support: Deliver clear reports including reproduction steps, risk ratings, evidence, and prioritized fixes; communicate effectively with both engineers and non-technical stakeholders; retest fixes as needed.

Deloitte’s Government and Public Services (GPS) practice – our people, ideas, technology, and outcomes—are designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.

Our Cyber Defense & Resilience offering assists clients in defending against advanced threats by transforming security operations, monitoring technology, data analytics, and threat intelligence. Helps manage and protect dynamic attack surfaces and provides rapid crisis and cyber incident response, ensuring clients can be ready for, respond to, and recover from business disruptions.

Qualifications 

Required: 

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain the required clearance for this role.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in penetration testing to include the following :
• Strong understanding of web application security, OWASP Top 10, and modern attack techniques against web apps and APIs.
• Proficiency with industry-standard tools such as Burp Suite, Nmap, Metasploit, and scripting for automation (e.g., Python/PowerShell/Bash), plus comfort writing lightweight proof-of-concepts.
• Demonstrated ability to distinguish false positives vs. exploitable issues, document evidence, and provide pragmatic, developer-friendly remediation guidance.
• Familiarity with common auth patterns (OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML), API paradigms (REST/GraphQL), and modern app architectures (microservices, containers) is strongly preferred.

Preferred:

• Certifications such as OSCP, OSWEP, CRTO, or eJPT (eLearnSecurity Junior Penetration Tester) are highly desirable.
• 1+ years experience within the following:
• Experience with mobile (Android/iOS) testing, cloud penetration testing (AWS/Azure/GCP), or CI/CD and supply chain testing.
• Relevant certifications (examples: OSCP, GWAPT, GPEN, PNPT) or equivalent proven experience.
• Proven experience with adversary simulation, adversary emulation, or red team operations.