Penetration Tester - Check Team Lead x2
Pentration Tester - CHECK Team Lead x2
Permanent opportunity
Remote role with occassional travel to client sites
£60,000 - £70,000 per annum DOE
* Please note this role requires you to gain security clearance
Job description
- Scope penetration tests accurately, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation and standards.
- Work autonomously and under direction, delivering accurate technical results in accordance with the scope and test plan.
- Perform a broad range of complex penetration tests that demonstrate an analytical and systematic approach.
- Apply knowledge of configuration errors, vulnerabilities, and coding flaws to create and execute a series of tests to validate the security of a system or product.
- Communicate penetration test results to both technical and non-technical audiences, facilitating collaboration between stakeholders where necessary.
- Influence peers and customers by delivering presentations, papers, and reports.
- Have a good understanding of technology and actively maintain awareness of developments in the penetration testing and information security fields.
- Participate in technical and/or professional development activities beyond own team, sharing knowledge with colleagues to improve the security testing service.
- Assist and support active red team engagements.
- Work closely with the Head of Cyber Security Testing and input into growing existing and developing new service lines.
Required Skills
- CHECK Team Leader (Inf). (Crest CCT INF Advantageous)
- UK Government Clearance to SC level.
- Experience of scoping projects and writing proposals.
- Experience of applying in-depth knowledge and experience in one or more specific areas and apply a broad understanding across a wide field in a variety of situations.
- Ability to manage larger projects and oversee them from a technical perspective.
- Flexibility and willingness to work additional hours / out of hours as may be required.
- Have strong inter-personal skills, especially in handling contacts of all types and at all levels.
- Maintain detailed knowledge of own area of expertise, including awareness of current developments.
- Have strong written, verbal and presentation skills.
- Develop awareness and, in some cases, detailed knowledge of areas outside own area of expertise as appropriate.
- Take innovative approaches to problem solving and devise creative solutions.
- Convey a level of confidence and professionalism, positively influencing and persuading others to take a course of specific action when there is no direct command.
- Provide mentoring and management of junior staff on projects, supporting staff development.
Education:
Degree level qualification (2:2 or above) BSc in an IT related field; Computer Science or Digital Forensics degrees are desirable
Cyber Security related degrees are desirable.
CISSP
CCSAS
CCT APP
CSTL APP
CSTL INF
OSCP
OSWE
OSCE
5 years in Cyber Security industry working as a Penetration Tester, delivering on infrastructure penetration testing projects.
- Company
- Alexander Associates
- Location
- Warwickshire, Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options - Employment Type
- Permanent
- Salary
- £60000 - £70000/annum
- Posted
- Company
- Alexander Associates
- Location
- Warwickshire, Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom
Hybrid / WFH Options - Employment Type
- Permanent
- Salary
- £60000 - £70000/annum
- Posted