Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced and highly capable
Senior Security Consultant
to join our client's cybersecurity team. This role is designed for a practitioner with strong hands-on expertise in offensive security, who can independently lead complex engagements, mentor junior consultants, and act as a trusted technical advisor to clients.
Ideally, you should have deep experience in VAPT, adversarial techniques, and real-world exploitation across network, web, and enterprise environments, with the ability to translate technical findings into meaningful risk narratives and actionable remediation guidance.
Key Responsibilities
Lead and execute end-to-end offensive security engagements, including network, web application, mobile application, and infrastructure penetration testing.
Validate and exploit identified vulnerabilities to demonstrate real-world impact and business risk.
Produce high-quality technical and executive-level reports with clear risk narratives and actionable remediation recommendations.
Serve as a technical or project lead during engagements, providing guidance, mentorship, and quality assurance to junior consultants.
Act as a key technical point of contact for clients, including walkthroughs of findings and remediation discussions.
Contribute to the development and improvement of internal testing methodologies, tools, and playbooks.
Stay current with emerging threats, exploitation techniques, and offensive security research.
Support pre-sales and scoping activities by providing technical input when required.
Requirements
Experience: Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience in offensive security, penetration testing, or red teaming.
Mandatory Certifications: OSCP, CRT, OSWE
Strong understanding of network protocols, operating systems, Active Directory environments, and web application architectures.
Deep knowledge of common attack techniques, vulnerabilities and frameworks (e.g., OWASP Top 10, MITRE ATT&CK, CWE).
Highly proficient with industry-standard offensive security tools and comfortable with custom scripting and automation.
Strong analytical mindset with the ability to think like an attacker and chain multiple weaknesses together.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, particularly in explaining technical risk to non-technical stakeholders.
HackerTrail is an award-winning hr tech and solutions company that is changing the status quo on recruitment. The recruitment industry is ripe with issues and old school ways of doing things, and we're disrupting this industry using our proprietary technology. We are a funded startup with talented team of 20+ people in 2 cities, and have served over 170 clients in 6 cities.
We have two flagship products:
1. Scout: an AI-powered canddate sourcing engine (https://getscout.ai/)
2. Litmus: a gamified tech assessment engine (https://www.hackertrail.com/litmus/)
We also run a recruitment consultancy business which is widely recognized in Singapore as being one of the best in its category. (https://www.hackertrail.com/experienced-hiring/)
This is an opportunity to join a fast-paced company serving top tier clientele in multiple markets. Learn more about our team here: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hackertrail