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Veracity Engineering is an industry leader in aviation engineering and management consulting. We apply proven principles and innovative approaches to solve tomorrow’s problems today. Since 2001, Veracity’s staff of experienced, passionate and creative professionals has provided our government and commercial clients with innovative solutions to modernize air traffic systems and advance global initiatives in safety, efficiency, and capacity.
Location: Atlantic City, NJ / FAA William J. Hughes Technical Center
Employment Type: Full-Time
Company: Veracity Engineering
Salary: $90,000 – $125,000/year
Position Overview
About the role:
Veracity is looking for a highly skilled Offensive Security Engineer to join our growing cybersecurity team. This role is integral to executing sophisticated offensive security operations, including red teaming, penetration testing, and tailored cybersecurity exercises. As an Offensive Security Engineer, you will lead assessments that mimic real-world adversarial tactics, techniques, and procedures to identify vulnerabilities, improve defensive strategies, and strengthen our security posture.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Plan, design, and execute red team engagements, including adversary emulation, to assess the resilience of systems and processes.
- Perform manual penetration testing on web applications, infrastructure, cloud services, and API’s utilizing creative and unconventional approaches to discover vulnerabilities.
- Develop custom attack vectors and exploit vulnerabilities manually, emphasizing stealth and persistence to emulate real adversary behavior.
- Lead cybersecurity exercises and create targeted attack scenarios to test response effectiveness.
- Assess and prioritize risks based on manual testing outcomes, providing actionable remediation recommendations.
- Collaborate with blue teams and stakeholders to refine detection, response, and prevention strategies.
- Document technical findings in clear, concise reports and communicate results to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Continuously stay updated on the latest threats, vulnerabilities, and offensive security techniques.
- Implement and maintain red team and penetration testing tools, ensuring they are effective, up-to-date, and properly configured for engagements.
Requirements
Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree in engineering (civil, electrical, electronic, industrial, mechanical, aeronautical, or computer from a college or university with a degree curriculum accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET).
Please note master’s degree or MBA in related field may be substituted for bachelor’s degree and 3 years of experience or PhD in related field may be substituted for bachelor’s degree and 7 years experience.
Experience:
- The position requires a minimum of ten (10) years of experience in cyber security, with at least 4 years in red teaming or adversary emulation required.
Skills:
- Proven ability to emulate adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) without relying heavily on automated tools.
- Strong experience in manual penetration testing, focusing on identifying business logic flaws, misconfigurations, and complex vulnerabilities.
Certifications:
- At least one of the following offensive security certifications such as OSCP, OSCE, OSEP, OSWE, CRTO, CRTP, GPEN, GXPN, or BSCP.
Physical Demands
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; use fingers and hands to type or write; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear; taste or smell. Specific vision abilities required by
At Veracity, we want our employees to excel and grow professionally. With an emphasis on continuing education, we demonstrate our commitment to employee growth and development by providing tuition reimbursement for education and certifications. In addition to tuition reimbursement, we offer one of the best benefits packages in the industry: competitive health benefits package, paid time off, 401K matching, and vested from day one to name just a few of our benefits and perks.
U.S. Eligibility Requirements (Standard for all U.S. Positions)
- Interested candidates must submit an application and resume/CV online to be considered.
- Must be 18 years of age or older.
- Must be willing to submit to a background investigation; any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation.
- Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the U.S. For U.S. employment opportunities, Veracity hires U.S. citizens, permanent residents, asylees, refugees, and temporary residents. Temporary residence does not include those with non-immigrant work authorization (F, J, H, or L visas), such as students in practical training status. Exceptions to these requirements will be determined based on the shortage of qualified candidates with a particular skill. Veracity will require proof of work authorization.
- Must be willing to execute Veracity’s Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Agreement which requires, among other things, post-employment obligations relating to non-solicitation, confidentiality, and non-disclosure
Veracity believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and does not discriminate against nor favor any applicant because of race, sex, color, disability, national origin, religion, creed, age, marital status, veteran status, gender, gender identity/expression, actual or perceived sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic. Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Veracity will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified applicant with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.
Veracity Engineering is an industry leader in aviation engineering and management consulting. We apply proven principles and innovative approaches to solve tomorrow’s problems today. Since 2001, Veracity’s staff of experienced, passionate and creative professionals has provided our government and commercial clients with innovative solutions to modernize air traffic systems and advance global initiatives in safety, efficiency, and capacity.
Location: Atlantic City, NJ / FAA William J. Hughes Technical Center
Employment Type: Full-Time
Company: Veracity Engineering
Salary: $90,000 – $125,000/year
Position Overview
About the role:
Veracity is looking for a highly skilled Offensive Security Engineer to join our growing cybersecurity team. This role is integral to executing sophisticated offensive security operations, including red teaming, penetration testing, and tailored cybersecurity exercises. As an Offensive Security Engineer, you will lead assessments that mimic real-world adversarial tactics, techniques, and procedures to identify vulnerabilities, improve defensive strategies, and strengthen our security posture.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Plan, design, and execute red team engagements, including adversary emulation, to assess the resilience of systems and processes.
- Perform manual penetration testing on web applications, infrastructure, cloud services, and API’s utilizing creative and unconventional approaches to discover vulnerabilities.
- Develop custom attack vectors and exploit vulnerabilities manually, emphasizing stealth and persistence to emulate real adversary behavior.
- Lead cybersecurity exercises and create targeted attack scenarios to test response effectiveness.
- Assess and prioritize risks based on manual testing outcomes, providing actionable remediation recommendations.
- Collaborate with blue teams and stakeholders to refine detection, response, and prevention strategies.
- Document technical findings in clear, concise reports and communicate results to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Continuously stay updated on the latest threats, vulnerabilities, and offensive security techniques.
- Implement and maintain red team and penetration testing tools, ensuring they are effective, up-to-date, and properly configured for engagements.
Requirements
Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree in engineering (civil, electrical, electronic, industrial, mechanical, aeronautical, or computer from a college or university with a degree curriculum accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET).
Please note master’s degree or MBA in related field may be substituted for bachelor’s degree and 3 years of experience or PhD in related field may be substituted for bachelor’s degree and 7 years experience.
Experience:
- The position requires a minimum of ten (10) years of experience in cyber security, with at least 4 years in red teaming or adversary emulation required.
Skills:
- Proven ability to emulate adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) without relying heavily on automated tools.
- Strong experience in manual penetration testing, focusing on identifying business logic flaws, misconfigurations, and complex vulnerabilities.
Certifications:
- At least one of the following offensive security certifications such as OSCP, OSCE, OSEP, OSWE, CRTO, CRTP, GPEN, GXPN, or BSCP.
Physical Demands
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; use fingers and hands to type or write; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear; taste or smell. Specific vision abilities required by
At Veracity, we want our employees to excel and grow professionally. With an emphasis on continuing education, we demonstrate our commitment to employee growth and development by providing tuition reimbursement for education and certifications. In addition to tuition reimbursement, we offer one of the best benefits packages in the industry: competitive health benefits package, paid time off, 401K matching, and vested from day one to name just a few of our benefits and perks.
U.S. Eligibility Requirements (Standard for all U.S. Positions)
- Interested candidates must submit an application and resume/CV online to be considered.
- Must be 18 years of age or older.
- Must be willing to submit to a background investigation; any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background investigation.
- Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the U.S. For U.S. employment opportunities, Veracity hires U.S. citizens, permanent residents, asylees, refugees, and temporary residents. Temporary residence does not include those with non-immigrant work authorization (F, J, H, or L visas), such as students in practical training status. Exceptions to these requirements will be determined based on the shortage of qualified candidates with a particular skill. Veracity will require proof of work authorization.
- Must be willing to execute Veracity’s Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Agreement which requires, among other things, post-employment obligations relating to non-solicitation, confidentiality, and non-disclosure
Veracity believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and does not discriminate against nor favor any applicant because of race, sex, color, disability, national origin, religion, creed, age, marital status, veteran status, gender, gender identity/expression, actual or perceived sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic. Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Veracity will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified applicant with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in cybersecurity engineer jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information security, or a related technical field
- Hands-on experience with SIEM platforms such as Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, or IBM QRadar
- Proficiency in vulnerability assessment and penetration testing tools and methodologies
- Industry certification such as CISSP, CompTIA Security+, CEH, or CISM
- Experience designing and implementing zero-trust or defense-in-depth security architectures
- Knowledge of compliance frameworks including NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2, or FedRAMP
Tips for Your Cybersecurity Engineer Job Search
Tailor your resume to the threat stack
Hiring managers scan for specific tools and frameworks before they read your summary. List the exact platforms you've worked with, such as SIEM tools, EDR solutions, and IDS systems, and match them to the job description's language word for word.
Lead with certifications strategically
Certifications like CISSP, CEH, or Security+ carry different weight depending on the employer. Defense contractors often require DoD 8570 compliance, while SaaS companies may prioritize cloud-specific credentials like AWS Security Specialty. Match your cert placement to the sector you're targeting.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists cybersecurity engineer openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Filter by clearance requirements upfront
Many cybersecurity roles at defense and federal contractors require an active or obtainable security clearance. Check clearance requirements before applying so you don't waste time on roles you're ineligible for or underqualified to obtain within the hiring timeline.
Prepare a threat analysis walkthrough
Most technical interviews for cybersecurity engineers include a scenario round where you walk through how you'd detect, contain, and remediate a specific attack type. Practice narrating your incident response process aloud, including the tools you'd pull and the stakeholders you'd notify.
Negotiate scope, not just compensation
In cybersecurity roles, the tools budget, team size, and reporting structure shape your day-to-day more than titles do. During offer conversations, ask which security initiatives are currently funded and how much autonomy the role has over architecture decisions.
Cybersecurity Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most cybersecurity engineers?
The companies hiring the most cybersecurity engineers right now include Zantech, Booz Allen Hamilton, and MITRE, with the largest share of openings in Virginia, Texas, and California, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Defense contractors, major financial institutions, and cloud platform providers consistently account for the highest volume of postings.
How many cybersecurity engineer jobs are remote?
About 61% of cybersecurity engineer openings are fully remote or hybrid as of September 2026, though availability varies significantly by specialization. Cloud security, threat intelligence, and application security roles tend to offer the most remote flexibility, while roles involving on-premises infrastructure, classified environments, or physical security operations are more likely to require on-site presence.
How do you become a cybersecurity engineer?
Start by building foundational knowledge in networking, operating systems, and scripting through coursework or self-study, then earn an entry-level certification like CompTIA Security+ to signal baseline competency. Gain hands-on experience through labs, CTF competitions, or help-desk and IT support roles, then specialize in an area such as cloud security or incident response. A bachelor's degree in a related field and a more advanced certification accelerate progression into engineering roles.
Can you get a cybersecurity engineer job with little or no experience?
Breaking into cybersecurity engineering without direct experience is achievable if you build a demonstrable skill set outside of formal employment. Completing hands-on lab platforms, contributing to open-source security projects, or earning a certification that requires practical exam components all substitute for work history. Entry-level or associate-level titles at managed security service providers and IT departments frequently hire candidates who can show technical ability even without prior job titles in security.
What does the cybersecurity engineer interview process look like?
Most cybersecurity engineer interviews move through a recruiter screen, a technical phone or video round covering fundamentals like networking protocols and encryption, and one or more hands-on assessments such as a take-home threat analysis, a live scenario walkthrough, or a capture-the-flag style exercise. Final rounds typically include a system design or architecture discussion and a cultural or behavioral interview with the hiring team or security leadership.
Where can I find and apply to cybersecurity engineer jobs?
You can find and apply to cybersecurity engineer jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from employers across the United States. Search the available roles, find the ones that match your experience and specialization, and apply directly to each listing without leaving the platform.
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