Description
Ethical Hacker/Penetration Testers
London - 6 month contract
I am currently looking for a Penetration tester who i for an urgent new role working for a digital hub on a greenfield project in London on an initial 6 month contract - £550 - £600 p/d
As a Hacker/Pentester, you are tasked with continuously discovering, communicating and explaining security vulnerabilities to product teams, and automating this where practical.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
Lead, supervise or directly manage a team of Digital Security Specialists;
Lead on development of plans to safeguard computer files against accidental or unauthorised modification, destruction, or disclosure and to meet emergency data processing needs;
Confer with users to discuss issues such as computer data access needs, security violations, and programming changes;
Monitor current reports of computer viruses to determine when to update virus protection systems;
Modify computer security files to incorporate new software, correct errors, or change individual access status;
Coordinate implementation of computer system plan with establishment personnel and outside vendors;
Train users and promote security awareness to ensure system security and to improve server and network efficiency.
Main Responsibilities
- Carrying out security vulnerability and penetration testing on Digital products developed with Agile methodologies and continuous integration.
- Developing and maintaining automated security testing tools.
- Recommending fixes for vulnerabilities in products, infrastructure, and processes.
Skills & Qualifications
- Evidence of exposure to vulnerability and penetration testing methods
- Understanding of virtualisation and cloud technologies. Knowledge of Amazon Web Services, infrastructure and cloud security
- Experience of use of open Source technologies and tools (eg Linux, MongoDB, Postgres, Nginx, PHP, Ruby, Python).
- Evidence of exposure to security and penetration testing tools. Understanding of Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP). and other security standards or best practices
Desirable Criteria:
- CHECK Team member, equivalent, or awareness of methodologies used.
- Experience of agile working environments.
- Awareness/experience of physical Security issues.
- Awareness of social engineering.
- Static program analysis skills.
- Experience of fuzzing used as a means of testing web applications.
If this sounds like something that would be of interest to you, please get in touch and click and apply.