CACI International

Senior Attack Surface Testing SME

CACI International$90K — $189K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • U.S. citizenship required; eligible for Public Trust clearance.
  • Five years of experience in attack-surface management or related fields.
  • Deep knowledge of network protocols and security methodologies.
  • Experience designing safe scanning workflows with a focus on operational integrity.
  • Strong automation skills using programming and scripting languages like Python and Bash.
  • Leadership experience with technical staff and strategic risk decision-making.
  • Relevant cybersecurity certifications, such as OSCP or CISSP.

Responsibilities

  • Lead continuous assessment operations for federal cyber assets.
  • Design safe scanning and validation approaches for large-scale assessments.
  • Mentor junior engineers and oversee vulnerability assessment findings.
  • Prioritize risk assessments based on multiple criteria, not just scanner output.
  • Rapidly analyze high-risk asset exposures and coordinate urgent response actions.
  • Define automation requirements and data integration for assessment tools.
  • Produce technical reports and briefings on high-risk findings.

Benefits

  • Flexible time-off policy for work-life balance.
  • Access to comprehensive healthcare and wellness programs.
  • Financial and retirement support options for employees.
  • Continuing education and learning resources for professional growth.
  • Support for family needs through various benefits programs.
Full Job Description
Job Title: Senior Attack Surface Testing SME

Job Category: Information Technology

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: Public Trust

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10%

Type of Travel: Continental US

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The Opportunity:

CACI is seeking a Senior Attack Surface Testing subject-matter expert to lead assigned continuous-assessment operations for federal cyber assets. This SME designs safe enumeration and validation approaches, directs junior engineers, adjudicates high-risk findings, and ensures rapid reporting and remediation guidance. This position works with the VM-ASE Technical Lead, customer process owners, Cloud/DevOps specialists, and AI-assisted analysis staff to deliver a repeatable, high-confidence assessment service.

This position will provide continuous technical assessment support for fulltime, proactive testing of externally and internally visible federal cyber assets. This expands federal visibility by conducting continual assessments of .gov domains, subdomains, and internetfacing assets to uncover unknown exposures, validate vulnerabilities, and provide agencies with actionable remediation guidance. This role supports the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) Programs mission to safeguard and secure cyberspace in an environment where the threat of cyber-attack is continuously growing and evolving and is responsible for enhancing the security, resilience, and reliability of the Nations cyber and communications infrastructure. The CDM Program defends the United States (U.S.) Federal Information Technology (IT) networks from cybersecurity threats by providing continuous monitoring sensors (tools), diagnosis, mitigation tools, and associated services to strengthen the security posture of Government networks.


Responsibilities:

  • Lead continuous attack-surface enumeration, vulnerability discovery, controlled validation, change monitoring, triage, reporting, and remediation-support activities.
  • Design scan architecture, asset-attribution logic, rate limits, credential and API handling, validation procedures, and deconfliction safeguards for large-scale production assessment.
  • Direct and mentor junior engineers; review findings, evidence, false-positive determinations, attack paths, severity, and remediation recommendations.
  • Prioritize risk using exposure, exploitability, CISA KEV, EPSS, asset criticality, compensating controls, and mission impact rather than scanner severity alone.
  • Lead rapid analysis of newly exposed or high-risk assets and coordinate urgent notifications, customer clarification, and closure validation.
  • Define requirements for automation, data normalization, dashboards, AI-assisted triage, and integrations with customer tools and authoritative repositories.
  • Produce and technically approve recurring reports, trend analyses, high-risk findings, playbooks, standard operating procedures, and customer briefings.


Qualifications:

Required:

  • U.S. citizenship is required.
  • The selected candidate must meet eligibility requirements for access to sensitive information and be able to obtain a Public Trust fitness determination (High Risk).
  • Ability to work in customer-provided remote environments, use customer-approved tools, and comply with rules of engagement, data-handling requirements, evidence controls, deconfliction procedures, and stop-work criteria.
  • Five or more years of attack-surface management, vulnerability assessment, external reconnaissance, penetration testing, or exposure-management experience, including leadership of continuous or large-scale assessment work.
  • Deep knowledge of DNS, TLS/PKI, HTTP/S, TCP/IP, routing, service fingerprinting, cloud-hosting patterns, asset attribution, scanner behavior, and manual vulnerability validation.
  • Experience designing safe high-volume scanning and enumeration workflows with rate control, scope enforcement, evidence capture, false-positive adjudication, and operational deconfliction.
  • Strong automation and integration skills using Python, Go, Bash, APIs, structured data, source control, and repeatable pipelines.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead technical staff, make defensible risk decisions, write high-quality reports, and brief technical and senior stakeholders.
  • One or more relevant certifications such as OSCP, OSEP/OSCE, GPEN, GXPN, CISSP, GCIH, cloud-security certifications, or equivalent.


Desired:

  • Eight or more years in attack-surface, offensive-security, vulnerability-management, or internet-measurement roles.
  • Experience with federal .gov attack-surface monitoring, coordinated vulnerability disclosure, critical infrastructure, or high-value assets.
  • Advanced use of certificate-transparency, passive DNS, BGP/ASN, internet telemetry, cloud inventories, and exposure-management data sources.
  • Experience integrating findings with SIEM/data-lake, ticketing, visualization, or threat-intelligence platforms.
  • AWS, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, container, or IaC-security experience sufficient to coordinate closely with platform specialists.

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What You Can Expect:

 A culture of integrity.

At CACI, we place character and innovation at the center of everything we do. As a valued team member, youll be part of a high-performing group dedicated to our customers missions and driven by a higher purpose to ensure the safety of our nation.

An environment of trust.

CACI values the unique contributions that every employee brings to our company and our customers - every day. Youll have the autonomy to take the time you need through a unique flexible time off benefit and have access to robust learning resources to make your ambitions a reality.

A focus on continuous growth.

Together, we will advance our nation's most critical missions, build on our lengthy track record of business success, and find opportunities to break new ground in your career and in our legacy.


Pay Range:

There are a host of factors that can influence final salary including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications. Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives. We offer competitive compensation, benefits and learning and development opportunities. Our broad and competitive mix of benefits options is designed to support and protect employees and their families. At CACI, you will receive comprehensive benefits such as; healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits.

Since this position can be worked in more than one location, the range shown is the national average for the position.

The proposed salary range for this position is:

$90,300-$189,600

About CACI International

CACI International Inc is a multinational professional services and information technology company. It provides services to many branches of the federal government including defense, homeland security, intelligence, and healthcare. CACI has approximately 23,000 employees worldwide. The company's mission is to provide enterprise and mission technology services and solutions that best fit the needs of its customers. CACI has been named a Fortune World's Most Admired Company, a Washington Post Top Workplace, and a Forbes Best Employer for Diversity.
Learn more about CACI International
Size
22,000 employees
Market Cap
$7.1 billion
Industry
Net Income
$374.4 million
Founded
1962
5 Year Trend
+7.3%
Revenue
$5.8 billion
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