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Principal Penetration Test Engineer with Security Clearance

Arcfieldhome, VA🇺🇸United StatesPosted 31 Aug 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This Principal Penetration Test Engineer role offers significant leadership and technical growth opportunities, allowing you to shape complex security solutions within a reputable company. If you thrive on solving challenging problems and possess a strong understanding of security principles, you'll find this hybrid position to be an excellent platform to expand your expertise and make a substantial impact. Apply now to leverage your skills and contribute to critical enterprise capabilities.

Quick Overview

Seniority
Leader
Employment type
Employee
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
home, VA, United States
Posted
Yesterday

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Considered an emerging authority, who applies extensive technical expertise.
  • Develops technical solutions to complex problems.
  • Exercises considerable latitude in determining objectives and approaches to assignment.
  • Synthesizes customer contractual needs, requirements, and technical, schedule and cost constraints into solutions for integrating, testing, evaluating, and transitioning systems into operations to deliver enterprise capabilities.
  • Plans and arranges the labor, schedules, and resources required for integrating, testing, evaluating and transitioning systems.
  • Establishes standards, practices, and procedures for integrating, testing, evaluating and transitioning systems and enterprise capabilities, and coordinates with stakeholders.
  • Evaluates enterprise capabilities, architectures, system design concepts, requirements, risks and opportunities, and processes for integration, test, evaluation and transition impacts.
  • Designs, develops, and implements test and evaluation strategies, plans and methods to assure reliability of systems in conjunction with system specifications and defined enterprise capabilities, and integrates system and enterprise elements together so they work as a whole.
  • Reviews, evaluates and derives requirements for testability.
  • Ensures systems and enterprise capabilities comply with requirements and standards through formal verification methods.
  • Generates system requirement and enterprise capability verification approaches and customer acceptance criteria.
  • Participates in reviews of systems and elements under development to ensure traceability of requirements compliance through verification and validation.
  • Develops and directs preparation for and execution of comprehensive test & evaluation plans, procedures and schedules which verify and validate enterprise capabilities, system requirements, performance and operability.
  • Coordinates system integration, test, evaluation and transition activities with other organizations.
  • Conducts readiness for system integration, test, evaluation and transition activities.
  • Compiles data and defines changes required in testing configurations, testing procedures, testing processes, or new testing requirements.
  • Implements testing processes and ensures all test activities follow those processes.
  • Produces reports on each test activity and tracks test metrics.
  • Performs analysis and evaluations of systems under test.
  • Assesses performance using evaluation criteria and technical performance measures.
  • Performs analysis of test results and prepares comprehensive system evaluation reports and risk assessments.
  • Evaluates discrepancy reports and performs integration regression testing to verify/validate incorporated fixes affecting systems and enterprise capabilities.
  • Provides direct, interfacing support to the customer for system integration, test, evaluation and transition activities.
  • Monitors for continual process improvement and lessons learned, and reports to management periodically.
Qualifications
  • BS 8-10, MS 6-8, PhD 3-5
  • The ability to obtain/maintain a Secret clearance
Equal Pay Act This is the projected compensation range for this position. There are differentiating factors that can impact a final salary/hourly rate, including, but not limited to, Contract Wage Determination, relevant work experience, skills and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location (For Remote Opportunities), education and certifications as well as Federal Government Contract Labor categories. In addition, Arcfield invests in its employees beyond just compensation. Arcfield 's benefits offerings include, dependent upon position, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, Holiday Pay, Short Term and Long-Term Disability, Retirement and Savings, Learning and Development opportunities, wellness programs as well as other optional benefit elections.

Min: $103,142.28Max: $202,942.36

EEO Statement We are an equal opportunity employer and federal government contractor. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment as protected by law.

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