Offensive Security Specialist
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Job description
As a Cybersecurity Offensive Specialist at Capgemini, you'll play a critical role in strengthening our clients' security posture by proactively uncovering and exploiting weaknesses in their systems. You'll join a collaborative team of offensive and defensive experts-sharing insights with incident responders, purple teams, and architects-to drive continuous improvement across people, processes, and technology., * Proactive Security Assessments
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Identify, analyze and prioritize vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and design gaps in networks, applications, and infrastructure.
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Drive "security by design" improvements through clear, actionable recommendations.
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Collaboration & Knowledge Sharing
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Work closely with incident response, SOC, and purple-team colleagues to translate offensive findings into enhanced detection and remediation strategies.
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Present technical findings and remediation roadmaps to both technical teams and executive stakeholders.
Key Activities
- Vulnerability Assessment Specialist
- Configure and run automated scans (e.g. Nessus, Tenable.io) against target environments.
- Manually validate scan results, triage false positives, and assess business impact.
- Produce detailed assessment reports and present findings to clients.
- Contribute to purple-team exercises to validate detection and prevention controls.
- Penetration Testing Specialist
- Plan and execute scoped pentests-both manual and tool-driven (e.g. Burp Suite, Metasploit, Cobalt Strike).
- Exploit identified weaknesses to validate risk, then propose realistic remediation steps.
- Evaluate the maturity of existing security controls and vulnerability management processes.
- Deliver comprehensive engagement reports and debrief sessions with client teams.
- Red Teaming Specialist
- Design and run multi-phased red-team exercises emulating advanced persistent threat tactics, techniques, and procedures.
- Employ stealthy evasion and privilege-escalation methods to demonstrate worst-case impact.
- Evaluate and challenge blue-team detection, response playbooks, and incident handling capabilities.
- Lead post-exercise "lessons learned" workshops and help harden defenses.
Requirements
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Core Expertise
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3+ years hands-on experience in one or more offensive disciplines.
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Proven ability to translate technical findings into business-oriented risk narratives.
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Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
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Vulnerability Assessment
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Mastery of vulnerability scanning platforms (e.g. Nessus, Rapid7, Qualys).
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Penetration Testing
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Deep familiarity with web, network, and API pentesting toolchains (Burp Suite, Cobalt Strike, Metasploit).
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Red Teaming
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Advanced skills in adversary emulation, covert C2, stealthy payload delivery, and lateral movement.
Additional Skills :
- Industry certifications such as OSCP, OSCE, CRTO, or GXPN.
- Scripting proficiency (Python, PowerShell, Bash) for automation and custom tooling.
- Experience testing cloud and container environments (AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes).
- Prior work in regulated sectors (finance, healthcare, government)
About the company
Capgemini ist einer der weltweit führenden Anbieter von Management- und IT-Beratung, Technologie-Services und Digitaler Transformation. Als ein Wegbereiter für Innovation unterstützt das Unternehmen seine Kunden bei deren komplexen Herausforderungen rund um Cloud, Digital und Plattformen.