VAPT Engineer

Job Title: VAPT Engineer – 3+ Years Experience

Job Location: Thrissur | Work from Office | Mon - Sat Experience: 3 - 5 yrs

Notice Period: Immediate Joiners (need to join within 1-2 weeks) Candidate location: Prefers candidates from Kerala

Job Summary We are looking for an experienced Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT) Engineer with 3+ years of experience in application and infrastructure security testing. The candidate will be responsible for identifying security vulnerabilities, performing penetration testing, preparing detailed reports, and supporting remediation activities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT) for web applications, APIs, mobile applications, and infrastructure.
• Conduct black-box, grey-box, and white-box security testing based on project requirements.
• Identify and validate vulnerabilities such as:
• OWASP Top 10
• SQL Injection
• Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
• Authentication and authorization issues
• Broken access control
• SSRF
• CSRF
• Security misconfiguration
• API vulnerabilities
• Business logic vulnerabilities
• Perform API security testing, including authentication, authorization, token validation, rate limiting, and API abuse scenarios.
• Conduct network and infrastructure VAPT, including server, network, firewall, and exposed services.
• Perform vulnerability scanning and manual validation using industry-standard tools.
• Analyze scan results and eliminate false positives through manual verification.
• Prepare detailed VAPT reports with vulnerability description, risk rating, evidence, business impact, and remediation recommendations.
• Work with development and infrastructure teams to support vulnerability remediation and retesting.
• Conduct security retesting to verify that identified vulnerabilities have been properly fixed.
• Maintain knowledge of emerging vulnerabilities, CVEs, attack techniques, and security best practices.
• Ensure testing activities comply with organizational security policies and applicable regulatory requirements.

Required Technical Skills

• Minimum 3 years of experience in VAPT / Cybersecurity / Application Security.
• Strong knowledge of OWASP Web and API Security.
• Experience with tools such as: o Burp Suite o OWASP ZAP o Nmap o Nessus / Qualys o Metasploit o SQLMap o Postman
• Good understanding of: o HTTP/HTTPS o REST APIs o JWT/OAuth/OIDC o TCP/IP and networking o Linux and Windows o Web application architecture o Databases and SQL
• Ability to perform manual penetration testing, not just automated vulnerability scanning.
• Basic scripting knowledge in Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar languages is desirable.
• Knowledge of cloud security, preferably Azure/Oracle Cloud/AWS, would be an advantage.

Certifications – Preferred

• CEH
• OSCP
• eJPT
• CompTIA Security+
• CREST certifications
• Other recognized cybersecurity/VAPT certifications

Educational Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or a related field.

Key Competencies

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Good understanding of security risks and their business impact.
• Ability to communicate vulnerabilities clearly to technical and business teams.
• Good documentation and report-writing skills.
• Ability to work independently as well as with development and infrastructure teams.