Penetration Tester | Growing Cyber Sec Firm – Cortida

Excellent opportunity for a Penetration Tester to join a rapidly growing and highly skilled cybersecurity consultancy.

The company offers great career progression opportunities, a generous training and development budget and time to support research projects that allow you to break new ground in testing. You will need to be enthusiastic about continuous development.

Your Skills / Background: 3+ years hands-on penetration testing experience and existing CRT qualification. You will also be a tenacious problem solver and communicator.

As Senior Penetration Tester, you will support our clients by delivering excellent penetration testing services and cloud security assessments that are ultimately articulated in high quality and valuable reports. In return, you will work in an inspiring environment with a team of highly experienced colleagues working across a diverse range of interesting security and assurance projects.

Key Responsibilities:

• Delivering high quality infrastructure, applications (including APIs and mobile apps), wireless, segmentation and breakout penetration tests, along with cloud security assessments
• Working with client teams to research potential vulnerabilities and then plan accordingly
• Working with clients to research and identify new and emerging attack vectors
• Conducting vulnerability assessment scanning and unauthorised host discovery exercises
• Analysing findings and translating them into actionable recommendations
• Delivering high-quality technical reports, outlining technical and business risk
• Providing support to clients during on-going incidents
• Creating and developing tooling, knowledge/threat libraries, methodologies and policies that ensure high quality and informed testing assessments are undertaken
• Creating and developing internal documentation to ensure our reporting is meaningful
• Authoring appropriate thought leadership papers, articles, online posts, and marketing materials

About You:

• A tenacious tester with current relevant Testing qualification as a minimum
• 3+ years’ demonstrable hands-on penetration testing experience
• Have mastered a variety of security testing tools
• Current and relevant technical understanding of technologies, security threats and trends
• Strong demonstrated ability to take vulnerabilities and articulate the actual business risk along with good reporting writing and client presentation skills.

About Us

We are a specialist information and cybersecurity consultancy and expert at understanding information security risks, creating appropriate security destinations and protecting clients from a range of security threats.