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Lockheed Martin Red Team - Cyber Test Exploitation Sr

Bethesda, Maryland & Additional Locations

Bethesda, Maryland; Fort Worth, Texas; Orlando, Florida

Responsibilities

Job ID: 692080BR Date posted: Apr. 23, 2025
Description:We are seeking an experienced overt "Whitehat" pen-tester to join our Lockheed Martin Corporate Red Team as a Cyber Test Exploitation Senior Tester. As a key member of the Corporate Red Team, you will conduct comprehensive cyber-security assessments on our corporate network infrastructure, cloud/SaaS environments, and products to identify vulnerabilities and develop exploits. By leveraging a more collaborative testing approach, allowing testers to uncover key vulnerabilities in less time, you will play a crucial role in enhancing our testing efficiency and effectiveness. Your expertise will help us ensure the security posture of our corporation and mitigate cyber risks.

*** While this role does not require a clearance to start, the ability and willingness to obtain a Secret level clearance is a requirement of the role ***

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct overt cyber security exploitation testing on enterprise infrastructure, hardware, and software
• Collaborate with Red Team members and corporate infrastructure technologists to assess cyber systems
• Lead testing efforts on assigned missions, assessing corporate assets both on-prem and in the cloud
• Provide guidance and advice to development teams on building cyber-secure systems
• Test and analyze complex problems related to attack vectors and mitigations
• Develop technical solutions to cyber security issues
• Document and report discovered vulnerabilities to senior leaders

As a Cyber Test Exploitation Senior Tester, you will play a critical role in ensuring the security and integrity of our corporate systems and assets. If you are a highly technical, motivated experienced professional, self-starter with a passion for cyber security, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.
Basic Qualifications:
• US Citizenship with ability to obtain and maintain a DoD clearance
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
• 5 + years of hands-on keyboard penetration testing and technical testing leadership experience
• In-depth knowledge of SaaS environments hosted in AWS or Azure Cloud
• Intermediate level experience penetration testing of Web applications and its various components (Injection, XSS, validation, session mgmt, web services, hosting, web traffic analysis, etc)
• Demonstrated understand of networking essentials, data flows, architecture, protocols, traffic, wireless, etc.
• Extensive knowledge and hands-on experience with various operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and mobile platforms, with a strong understanding of OS configuration, file systems, components, and architectures.
• Proven problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
• Excellent communication and analytical skills
• Ability to work in a large-scale dynamic work environment
• Ability to travel (15%)
Desired Skills:
• Active Secret Clearance (or higher)
• Ability to lead small testing teams and deliver results
• Proficiency in coding/scripting languages such as Python, C, C#, PowerShell, and Bash
• Demonstrated ability to think creatively and critically
• Proven experience in testing platform-related weapon system's embedded components
• Familiarity with vendor vulnerability discovery and reporting requirements
• Exposure to zero-trust architecture implementations
• Experience with virtual networking and associated concepts
• Experience with Splunk at the Power User level
• Experience exploiting AI by leveraging malicious prompted engineering
Certifications: OSCP, OSCE, HTB-CPTS
Security Clearance Statement: This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.
Clearance Level: Secret
Other Important Information You Should Know
Expression of Interest: By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities where similar skills and requirements have been identified as a match. Should this match be identified you may be contacted for this and future openings.
Ability to Work Remotely: Part-time Remote Telework: The employee selected for this position will work part of their work schedule remotely and part of their work schedule at a designated Lockheed Martin facility. The specific weekly schedule will be discussed during the hiring process.
Work Schedules: Lockheed Martin supports a variety of alternate work schedules that provide additional flexibility to our employees. Schedules range from standard 40 hours over a five day work week while others may be condensed. These condensed schedules provide employees with additional time away from the office and are in addition to our Paid Time off benefits.
Schedule for this Position: 4x10 hour day, 3 days off per week
Pay Rate: The annual base salary range for this position in California and New York (excluding most major metropolitan areas), Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Washington or Washington DC is $97,100 - $171,235. For states not referenced above, the salary range for this position will reflect the candidate’s final work location. Please note that the salary information is a general guideline only. Lockheed Martin considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/ training, key skills as well as market and business considerations when extending an offer.
Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Education Assistance, Parental Leave, Paid time off, and Holidays.
(Washington state applicants only) Non-represented full-time employees: accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) to be used for incidental absences and other reasons; receive at least 90 hours for holidays. Represented full time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year.
This position is incentive plan eligible.
Lockheed Martin is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered without regard to legally protected characteristics.
The application window will close in 90 days; applicants are encouraged to apply within 5 - 30 days of the requisition posting date in order to receive optimal consideration.
At Lockheed Martin, we use our passion for purposeful innovation to help keep people safe and solve the world's most complex challenges. Our people are some of the greatest minds in the industry and truly make Lockheed Martin a great place to work.

With our employees as our priority, we provide diverse career opportunities designed to propel, develop, and boost agility. Our flexible schedules, competitive pay, and comprehensive benefits enable our employees to live a healthy, fulfilling life at and outside of work. We place an emphasis on empowering our employees by fostering an inclusive environment built upon integrity and corporate responsibility.

If this sounds like a culture you connect with, you’re invited to apply for this role. Or, if you are unsure whether your experience aligns with the requirements of this position, we encourage you to search on Lockheed Martin Jobs, and apply for roles that align with your qualifications.
Experience Level: Experienced Professional
Business Unit: ENTERPRISE BUSINESS SERVICES
Relocation Available: Possible
Career Area: Cyber Security
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First
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About

At Lockheed Martin, we apply our passion for purposeful innovation to keep people safe and solve the world's most complex challenges.

Pioneering Defense Technology: From aerospace to outer space to cyber space, you can innovate mission solutions alongside the best minds in the business.

United By Culture: Excellence, integrity, and collaboration define us. We accelerate change and embrace one another’s perspectives to win for our customers.

Real Impact, Real Growth: Grow your career and skills for life. Our wide array of opportunities and technology-driven learning programs enable your development and agility.

Your Health, Your Wealth, Your Life: Competitive pay, comprehensive benefits and flexible schedules designed so you thrive — at work and beyond.

Empowered to Be Your Best: Use your strengths to make a difference in the lives of one another, our customers, our communities, and our planet.

Here, the possibilities are endless because we offer:

  • Flexible Schedules, dependent on role
  • Levels: Student, Entry, Mid, Senior, Management
  • Locations: Nationwide & OCONUS Positions

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Qualifications

What does a successful Cyber Security employee at Lockheed Martin look like?
Check out the info below to see if you have what it takes.

  • Analytical

    Advancing technologies and out of the box thinking that enable cyber operations, resulting in inventing solutions that will keep us safe today and into the future.

  • Creative

    Natural curiosity is an absolutely essential trait. Curiosity leads to continual learning which allows you to stay one step ahead of the threat.

  • Curious

    The ability to anticipate hackers’ intent and disrupt their next move is key. Seeking out new weaknesses before they become weaknesses. Proactively learning and updating systems is how we stay ahead of the threat.

  • Proactive

    We have hard problems to solve and we look for people who thrive at solving them, who can see problems from both the defensive and offensive sides.

  • Problem Solver

    Whatever you know today could be different tomorrow as security is constantly changing. Possessing strong technical skills and intellectual depth along with a willingness to continually learn from others is important to adapt to and address the Advanced Persistent Threat.

  • Technologically savvy

    The ability to analyze and disseminate threat intelligence. The ability to analyze and address the root cause, learn from the attack and anticipate the hacker’s next move.

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Quote

“Cyber is the most exciting career field! Every day, there's new cyber threat information that we leverage to shape our courses of action when identifying, assessing, developing, integrating, and continuously evaluating the effectiveness of defensive measures.”

Dr. Dawn B., Senior Fellow

Benefits

  • Healthcare

    Medical, Dental and Vision coverage is available for employees who opt-in.

  • 401(k)/Retirement Plans

    Our 401(k) plan features generous matching and company contributions.

  • Professional Development

    We support our employees through mentoring, internal & external educational programs, networking, skills enhancement and career-building programs, funding for cyber certifications.

  • Maternity and Paternity Leave

    Our generous parental leave policies support your journey into parenthood. When you return to work, our facilities offer mother's rooms to support your transition and work/life balance.

  • Paid Time Off

    We offer PTO, paid holidays and paid time off for jury duty and military obligations.

  • Flex-time

    Depending on the position, we offer flexible work schedules.

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