The Role
Conduct application or network penetration testing, including manual exploitation and vulnerability assessments. Coordinate client readiness, schedules, documentation, and project communications; lead client calls throughout engagements; investigate emerging threats; and produce professional reports with evidence, reproduction steps, findings, and remediation recommendations.
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About Us
Sophos is a cybersecurity leader defending 600,000 organizations globally with an AI-driven platform and expert-led services. Sophos meets organizations wherever they are in their security maturity and grows with them to defeat cyberattacks. Its solutions combine machine learning, automation, and real-time threat intelligence with frontline human expertise from Sophos X-Ops to deliver advanced, 24/7 threat monitoring, detection, and response.
Sophos offers industry-leading managed detection and response (MDR) alongside a comprehensive portfolio of cybersecurity technologies — including endpoint, network, email, and cloud security, extended detection and response (XDR), identity threat detection and response (ITDR), and next-gen SIEM. Together with expert advisory services, these capabilities help organizations proactively reduce risk and respond faster, with the visibility and scalability needed to stay ahead of evolving threats.
Sophos goes to market with a global partner ecosystem, including Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs), resellers and distributors, marketplace integrations, and cyber risk partners, giving organizations the flexibility to choose trusted relationships when securing their business. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.
Sophos is seeking an experienced and motivated Penetration Testing Analyst 3 to join our Red Team. The Sophos Red Team is engaged by organizations worldwide to identify and exploit vulnerabilities within client environments, applying information security threat intelligence to uncover the same weaknesses real-world adversaries would target.
As a Penetration Testing Analyst 3, you will act as the point of contact for testing readiness, coordinating tasks, timelines, and communication between business, client, and project teams. Responsible for escalating issues to management and taking ownership of new challenges to add value. In addition to test readiness support, the position will focus on either application security (web application penetration testing, mobile, API testing) or network security (vulnerability assessments, external penetration tests, internal penetration tests, etc.), using both off-the-shelf and internally developed tools to execute manual testing for advanced attacks. Candidates are not expected to be experienced in both focus areas, although that would be a plus.
In this role, you will be responsible for test readiness activities to ensure engagements are ready to begin by troubleshooting client readiness problems, communicating with clients and tracking readiness status, and producing professional security assessment reports detailing vulnerability and exploit information for clients. This position will lead client-facing calls throughout each engagement, from test readiness and troubleshooting, project kick-off through notification of high and critical findings to a close-out review of test findings, evidence, process steps to reproduce, and remediation recommendations.The ideal candidate for this role will bring strong technical communication skills, sound analytical and problem-solving abilities, and a proactive approach to researching new threats, vulnerabilities, and exploits.
You will excel as both a self-directed individual contributor and as a member of a larger team, performing other essential duties as assigned.
What you will do
- This is a remote position with potential travel up to 10%
- Coordinate activities, documentation, readiness schedules, and information between business, clients, and project teams.
- Act as the point of contact and communicate testing readiness status adequately to all participants
- Use project management tools to monitor key tasks, responsible parties, timelines, and status
- Report and escalate issues to management as needed
- Take ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
- Conduct application security assessments (web, mobile, API, etc.) using off-the-shelf or internally developed exploitation tools to execute manual testing for advanced attacks OR network penetration testing assessments (external pen test, internal pen test, etc.)
- Produce and deliver vulnerability and exploit information to clients in the form of a professional security assessment report
- Conduct client conference calls, including but not limited to test readiness and troubleshooting calls, project kick-off calls, notification of high/critical findings during the testing process, and close-out calls to review test findings, evidence, process steps to reproduce, and remediation recommendations
- Perform proactive research to identify and understand new threats, vulnerabilities, and exploits
- Conduct exploitation testing using off-the-shelf or self-developed exploitation tools and document findings for client remediation
- Excel as both a self-directed individual contributor and as a member of a larger team
- Perform other essential duties as assigned
What you will bring
- 3+ years of experience in Information Security
- Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills, both written and verbal
- Demonstrate ability to learn quickly and thrive in high-energy team environment
- Professional, “get it done" attitude, work ethic, and strong team player
- Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multitasking skills
- Minimum of 3 year of experience with penetration testing
- Minimum of 3 years of experience with at least one of the following: Nmap, Metasploit, Kali Linux, Burp Suite
Desirable:
- Experience with NMap Scanning
- Understanding of web application authentication methods
- Experience with Linux
- Understanding of networking and appliances (routers, load balancers, firewalls, WAF, IDS/IPS, web content filter/proxy)
- Understanding of tools to validate network access with a penetration testing platform
- Offensive certifications such as CEH, WAPT, GPEN, GWAPT, GAWN, OSCP, etc.
- Knowledge of operating systems administration and internals (Microsoft Windows / Linux)
- Understanding of TCP/IP networking at a technical level
- Experience with various application attack vectors, security test processes, and strong knowledge of common vulnerabilities (i.e. OWASP Top 10)
- Good troubleshooting skills, technical communication skills, both written and verbal; good analytical and problem-solving skills
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What's Great About Sophos?
· Sophos operates a remote-first working model, making remote work the primary option for most employees. However, some roles may necessitate a hybrid approach. While we are a remote first organization, applicants must have legal authorization to work in the jurisdiction where the position is posted, without requiring employer sponsorship.
· Our people – we innovate and create, all of which are accompanied by a great sense of fun and team spirit
· Employee-led diversity and inclusion networks that build community and provide education and advocacy
· Annual charity and fundraising initiatives and volunteer days for employees to support local communities
· Global employee sustainability initiatives to reduce our environmental footprint
· Global fitness and trivia competitions to keep our bodies and minds sharp
· Global wellbeing days for employees to relax and recharge
· Monthly wellbeing webinars and training to support employee health and wellbeing
Our Commitment To You
We’re proud of the diverse and inclusive environment we have at Sophos, and we’re committed to ensuring equality of opportunity. We believe that diversity, combined with excellence, builds a better Sophos, so we encourage applicants who can contribute to the diversity of our team. All applicants will be treated in a fair and equal manner and in accordance with the law regardless of gender, sex, gender reassignment, marital status, race, religion or belief, color, age, military veteran status, disability, pregnancy, maternity or sexual orientation. We want to give you every opportunity to show us your best self, so if there are any adjustments we could make to the recruitment and selection process to support you, please let us know.
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Skills Required
- 3+ years of experience in information security
- Minimum 3 years of penetration testing experience
- At least 3 years of experience with Nmap, Metasploit, Kali Linux, or Burp Suite
- Excellent written and verbal client-facing and internal communication skills
- Ability to learn quickly and work effectively in a high-energy team environment
- Professional attitude, strong work ethic, and teamwork
- Strong organizational, multitasking, and attention-to-detail skills
- Experience with Nmap scanning
- Understanding of web application authentication methods
- Experience with Linux
- Understanding of networking appliances, including routers, load balancers, firewalls, WAFs, IDS/IPS, and proxies
- Understanding of tools used to validate network access with a penetration testing platform
- Offensive security certification such as CEH, WAPT, GPEN, GWAPT, GAWN, or OSCP
- Knowledge of Microsoft Windows and Linux operating system administration and internals
- Technical understanding of TCP/IP networking
- Experience with application attack vectors, security testing processes, and common vulnerabilities such as the OWASP Top 10
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, problem-solving, and technical communication skills
Sophos Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Sophos and has not been reviewed or approved by Sophos.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away is positioned as broad, with company-wide wellness days plus dedicated learning days and paid volunteer time.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-related leave appears more comprehensive than baseline offerings, including paid parental leave, caregiver leave, and extended bereavement leave.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing support is emphasized through always-available assistance resources and a Calm subscription, suggesting a lifestyle-oriented benefits approach.
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What We Do
Cybersecurity Evolved. As a worldwide leader in next-generation cybersecurity, Sophos protects nearly 400,000 organizations of all sizes in more than 150 countries from today’s most advanced cyberthreats. Powered by SophosLabs – a global threat intelligence and data science team – Sophos’ cloud-native and AI-enhanced solutions secure endpoints (laptops, servers and mobile devices) and networks against evolving cybercriminal tactics and techniques, including automated and active-adversary breaches, ransomware, malware, exploits, data exfiltration, phishing, and more.
