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Top Secret/SCI
Unspecified
Polygraph
IT - QA and Test
Fort Meade, MD (On-Site/Office)
**TS/SCI Clearance + Polygraph Required**
Elucidation Concepts is seeking a skilled Penetration Tester (Skill Level 3) to join our advanced cybersecurity team. In this role, you will serve as a Subject Matter Expert, providing deep expertise in testing within the Risk Management Framework (RMF). You will direct and participate in the testing phase of security controls assessments, leveraging specialized knowledge of network protocols, operating systems, architectures, equipment, services, and applicable standards to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities.
As a Penetration Tester with Elucidation Concepts, you will play a critical role in safeguarding vital systems and ensuring our clients' networks and applications remain secure against evolving threats.
What You'll Do
Qualifications
Clearance Level:
Experience:
Physical Requirements: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and use hands to touch, handle or feel objects, tools or controls. The employee frequently is required to talk and hear and occasionally required to reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
EEO/AA Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities
Elucidation Concepts is seeking a skilled Penetration Tester (Skill Level 3) to join our advanced cybersecurity team. In this role, you will serve as a Subject Matter Expert, providing deep expertise in testing within the Risk Management Framework (RMF). You will direct and participate in the testing phase of security controls assessments, leveraging specialized knowledge of network protocols, operating systems, architectures, equipment, services, and applicable standards to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities.
As a Penetration Tester with Elucidation Concepts, you will play a critical role in safeguarding vital systems and ensuring our clients' networks and applications remain secure against evolving threats.
What You'll Do
- Perform vulnerability and penetration testing using a wide variety of industry-standard tools.
- Conduct both network-level and application-level penetration tests using established testing protocols and methodologies.
- Research and evaluate emerging technologies and threats relevant to information systems security.
- Interpret and apply agency-specific and federal security regulations and best practices to testing activities.
- Provide expert guidance on security posture and recommend mitigation strategies based on testing results.
- Document testing activities, findings, and recommended remediation steps in clear, actionable reports.
Qualifications
Clearance Level:
- Active TS/SCI clearance with a Full Scope Polygraph required.
Experience:
- Minimum of eight (8) years of relevant work experience as a Penetration Tester performing both network and application-level testing using established test protocols and methods.
Physical Requirements: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and use hands to touch, handle or feel objects, tools or controls. The employee frequently is required to talk and hear and occasionally required to reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
EEO/AA Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities
group id: 91009719
