Senior Penetration Tester
CoStar Group
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This role pays less than 78% of similar roles. Most pay $147,200–$197,750 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $144k versus about $172k for comparable roles.
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Cognizant is a multinational IT services and consulting company offering digital transformation, technology, and business process services. It serves clients across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and other industries worldwide.
Cognizant currently has 330 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $100,000–$135,000 across 211 roles with salary data.
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The Senior Penetration Tester / Red Team Engineer joins the Cloud, Infrastructure, and Security Services Practice to conduct advanced offensive security assessments. This role involves simulating real-world cyberattacks to identify exploitable weaknesses and validate security controls across applications, networks, infrastructure, cloud, APIs, and endpoint environments. You will perform vulnerability assessments, simulate adversary scenarios, and identify misconfigurations or insecure code. Key responsibilities include developing Python and Bash scripts for automation, researching emerging threats, and providing remediation guidance to technical teams. You will utilize a technical toolkit including Burp Suite, Metasploit, Nmap, Kali Linux, and Pentera. The work focuses on improving enterprise cyber resilience by analyzing attack paths, authentication, and authorization while ensuring compliance with OWASP, CVE/CVSS, and MITRE ATT&CK frameworks.
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