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Posted 2026-05-22

Senior Penetration Tester

Description

We invite a Senior Penetration Tester to join our team. It's an office-based role – no remote or hybrid options.

This role involves leading end-to-end penetration testing engagements and performing security reviews of cloud-native services, Kubernetes workloads, CI/CD pipelines, and microservices. You will also be responsible for discovering and exploiting vulnerabilities across real-money flows and partnering with various teams to translate findings into concrete fixes.

Responsibilities
  • Lead end-to-end penetration testing engagements across web applications, APIs, mobile, internal and external networks and cloud (primarily AWS).
  • Run red-team and assumed-breach operations - initial access, privilege escalation, lateral movement, persistence, exfiltration - including against fraud and detection stacks.
  • Perform security reviews of cloud-native services, Kubernetes workloads, CI/CD pipelines, and microservices.
  • Discover and exploit vulnerabilities across real-money flows - payments, deposits and withdrawals, wallets, KYC / AML, bonus systems, and affiliate tracking.
  • Partner with product, engineering, AppSec, payments, and fraud teams to translate findings into concrete fixes and durable controls.
  • Develop custom tooling, scripts, and methodology where no out-of-the-box approach exists.
  • Build and validate declarative threat models and contribute to "secure by design" practice.
  • Mentor mid and junior testers, review their engagement plans and reports.
  • Track new CVEs, TTPs, MITRE ATT&CK updates, and regulator advisories - translate them into concrete changes here.
  • Support pre-sales scoping, effort estimation, and pre-certification engagements for new products and jurisdictions.
  • Serve as a trusted offensive-security advisor to product, engineering, and compliance teams.
Requirements
  • Minimum 4 years of hands-on penetration testing or offensive-security experience.
  • Proven track record across at least three of: web / API, internal, external network, cloud (AWS / GCP), mobile (iOS / Android).
  • OSCP or an equivalent in-the-box certification.
  • Strong working knowledge of SAST/SCA/DAST tooling, AWS/GCP, MITRE ATT&CK, OWASP ASVS / WSTG, PTES.
  • Understanding of the data flow, MVC model.
  • Understanding of supply chain attacks.
  • Good reporting skills.
  • Comfortable scripting in Python plus Bash.
  • Knowledge at least one of major cloud provider's IAM model.
  • Experience pentesting cloud-native systems and Kubernetes environments, plus the CI/CD pipelines around them (GitLab, GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and IaC (Terraform, Helm, CloudFormation).
  • Strong written and verbal communication in English .
  • Experience balancing security and business demands under release pressure.
  • Familiarity with industry regulations, frameworks, and practices: PCI DSS, ISO 27001, NIST, GDPR .
Benefits
  • Career growth opportunities in an international and dynamic environment;
  • Opportunity to develop language skills with partial compensation for language courses;
  • Special gifts for birthdays, weddings, and newborns;
  • 20 working days of paid annual vacation, plus 6 paid sick leave;
  • Office snacks and refreshments;
  • Sports package to support a healthy lifestyle;
  • Comprehensive medical insurance for you and your partner;
  • Comfortable office with great facilities in a prime location;
  • Exciting corporate events, team-building activities, and international company parties.