Cloud Security Penetration Tester
Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX · HybridFull-timeSeen 2 days agoSeen in employer's feed 2 days ago
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Job overview
The Cloud Security Penetration Tester plans and leads penetration tests across multi-cloud environments and cloud-hosted applications. The role identifies and validates vulnerabilities through manual and automated testing, reports findings to technical teams and leadership, and advances testing methodologies, tooling, standards, and best practices. It also researches emerging cloud threats and evaluates or develops security tools.
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Full job description
Cloud Security Penetration Tester
locations
Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX
Charlotte, NC
Malvern, PA
time type
Full time
posted on
job requisition id
183597
Responsibilities:
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Plans, leads, and conducts penetration tests across multi-cloud environments and cloud-hosted applications.
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Performs manual and automated testing to identify and validate vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, IAM weaknesses, privilege-escalation paths, insecure trust relationships, and cloud attack paths.
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Develops detailed assessment reports and presents findings to technical teams and leadership. Leads reporting and collaborates with IT sub-divisions, third-party partners, and business units to identify the impact of technology implementations on IT and business operations.
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Leads the evolution of cloud penetration testing methodologies, tooling, automation, standards, and best practices.
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Maintains subject matter expertise. Researches emerging cloud vulnerabilities, attack techniques, and offensive security tooling.
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Leads the evaluation and onboarding of new tooling, and develops custom tools as needed.
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Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
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Minimum of ten years of related work experience, including at least three years in information security.
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Undergraduate degree in related field or equivalent combination of training and experience.
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Hands-on experience performing penetration testing or offensive security assessments across multiple cloud platforms.
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Experience performing cloud, web application, and API penetration testing using tools such as Burp Suite, Pacu, Redboto, CloudBrute, ScoutSuite, and Prowler.
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Ability to clearly document and communicate technical vulnerabilities, exploitation scenarios, business impact, and remediation recommendations.
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Preferred industry security certifications such as GIAC Cloud Penetration Tester (GCPN), OffSec Certified Professional (OSCP), GIAC Penetration Tester (GPEN), OffSec Web Assessor (OSWA), OffSec Web Expert (OSWE), GIAC Web Application Penetration Tester (GWAPT), etc.
Special Factors
Sponsorship
Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.
About Vanguard
At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.
To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.
How We Work
Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.
About Us
Vanguard, one of the world's leading investment management companies, serves individual investors, institutions, employer-sponsored retirement plans, and financial professionals. We have a diverse and talented crew with a culture that promotes teamwork, along with an unwavering focus on serving our clients' best interests.
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How this job compares
Set against the 496 open Cloud Security jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 9, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Texas median$106–208K/yr32 salary ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 39 open Cloud Security jobs in Texas and 496 across the US. 14% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience — more than three in four Cloud Security postings that state a minimum ask for (median 6 years, across 463 postings).
- Education
- 175 of the 496 open Cloud Security jobs (35%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 9, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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