Offensive Security Engineer, Specialist
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Job overview
The Offensive Security Engineer, Specialist designs, builds, and maintains offensive security platforms and cloud environments, primarily in Microsoft Azure with additional AWS support. The role develops infrastructure as code, automates platform lifecycle tasks, builds CI/CD pipelines and containerized solutions, and integrates security tooling. It collaborates with security practitioners to deliver engineering solutions for offensive security operations. The position follows Vanguard’s hybrid working model.
Skills & qualifications
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Full job description
Offensive Security Engineer, Specialist
locations
Malvern, PA
Charlotte, NC
Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX
time type
Full time
posted on
job requisition id
183488
What You'll Do
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Design, build, and maintain offensive security platforms and cloud environments.
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Engineer primarily in Microsoft Azure, with additional support across AWS.
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Develop Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, Bicep/ARM, CloudFormation, or similar tools.
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Automate provisioning, deployment, patching, and lifecycle management using Python, PowerShell, Bash, Go, or similar languages.
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Build and support CI/CD pipelines, containerized solutions, and reusable deployment patterns.
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Deploy and integrate security tooling used for offensive testing, research, and automation.
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Implement cloud security controls, access management, monitoring, logging, and platform hardening.
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Collaborate with security practitioners to deliver scalable engineering solutions that enable offensive security operations.
Required Qualifications
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5+ years of experience in Security Engineering, Cloud Engineering, DevSecOps, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or a related field.
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Strong hands-on experience designing and operating Microsoft Azure environments.
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Working knowledge of AWS services, networking, IAM, and security concepts.
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Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, Bicep, or ARM.
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Experience automating solutions using Python, PowerShell, Bash, Go, or similar languages.
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Experience with Git-based development practices and CI/CD pipelines.
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Knowledge of cloud networking, IAM, secrets management, logging, monitoring, and security controls.
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Strong understanding of Windows, Linux, networking, and cloud infrastructure fundamentals.
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Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, or other container technologies.
Preferred Qualifications
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Experience supporting Red Team, Purple Team, penetration testing, or security research functions.
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Experience building security labs, cyber ranges, or isolated testing environments.
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Familiarity with offensive security tools such as Kali Linux, Burp Suite, BloodHound, Metasploit, Sliver, or similar platforms.
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Experience developing internal platforms, APIs, or self-service capabilities.
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Knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID, Azure RBAC, AWS IAM, and workload identities.
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Experience with AI-enabled security automation.
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Relevant Azure, AWS, Terraform, or security certifications.
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 4,161 open Security Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Texas median$130–202K/yr175 salary ranges
- US median$60–70/hr77 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 275 open Security Engineer jobs in Texas and 4,161 across the US. 10% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Security Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (3,603 postings).
- Education
- 1,114 of the 4,161 open Security Engineer jobs (27%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 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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