Consultant or Senior Consultant- Financial Services - Offensive Security - Advanced Security Centre

Ernst & Young Advisory Services Sdn Bhd; Council of the City of Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global advisory firm is seeking a Consultant or Senior Consultant for its Advanced Security Centre in Sydney. This role focuses on offensive security, including penetration testing and security assessments. Candidates should have relevant cybersecurity experience and a commitment to professional growth. The firm offers salary negotiation and flexible working options.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Flexible working hours

26 weeks paid parental leave

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years' experience in cybersecurity for Senior Consultant role.
• Show a commitment to growth in technical cybersecurity careers.
• Experience in specific domains of offensive security is favorable.

Responsibilities

• Perform penetration testing and security assessments.
• Work alongside a diverse team in a flexible environment.
• Build and grow technical skills in cybersecurity.

Skills

Cybersecurity experience

Project management skills

Interpersonal skills

Web and mobile application security testing

Proficiency in security assessment methodologies

Education

Certifications like OSCP or SANS

Job description

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Consultant or Senior Consultant- Financial Services - Offensive Security - Advanced Security Centre

Location: Sydney

Other locations: Primary Location Only

Date: 25 Sept 2025

Requisition ID: 1517719

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What’s in it for you?

Our EY Advanced Security Centre (ASC) is a well-established, dedicated and vibrant offensive security team. Our vision is to build and bring the strongest, most diverse and highly skilled team to the market. We strive to be the market leaders in security testing services, ready to tackle any challenge that comes our way.

We are looking for people looking to kick-start their career in offensive security or people looking to tackle some of the biggest challenges our clients are facing in the market. There is flexibility to be based in either Sydney or Melbourne.

The ASC provides the following services to our clients:

• Web, Web services, mobile and thick client penetration testing
• Internal/External network penetration testing
• Red Team/Purple Team assessments
• Social Engineering assessments
• Application Security Consulting and Secure Code Review
• Cloud security assessments
• Wireless assessments
• Security configuration reviews

What we’re looking for

Here’s our ‘wish list’ but don’t worry if you don’t tick all the boxes. We’re interested in your strengths, what you want to learn, and how far you want to go.

• For Senior Consultants, a minimum of 3+ years cybersecurity experience, with a majority being offensive security related (e.g. penetration testing or application security experience), beyond the use of automated tools. Show us that you know what’s happening behind the tooling.
• For Consultants with less than 3 years’ experience, show us what you already know, how you’ve been learning – show us that you will continue to develop on the job!
• Strong project management and interpersonal skills.
• A commitment to build and grow your technical cybersecurity career to the next level.
• Experience in web and mobile application security testing and specialisation in one other domain would be favourable (thick application, red team/purple team or internal/external network)
  • Demonstrable proficiency of at least 2 following security assessment methodologies:
    • Web, Web services, mobile and thick client penetration testing
    • Internal/External network penetration testing
    • Application Security consulting and secure code review
    • Wireless assessments
    • Social engineering/red team assessments
  • Demonstrable technical understanding or certifications of at least 2 of following domains:
    • Common web technologies and frameworks
    • Application architecture
    • Cloud experience
    • Networking and Network protocols
    • DevOps methodology and pipelines
• Relevant (or be willing and able to pursue) professional certifications such as OSCP, SANS, CREST, PJPT, PNPT, PWPT, PJWT, CPTS, etc.

Our roles can be adjusted to work flexibly with the potential of reduced hours to balance your time between the home and office. Please speak with us about potential options.

• Discover the various ways our benefits can cater to your needs, across wellness, financial wellbeing, and family-friendly policies which include 26 weeks gender neutral paid parental leave at www.ey.com/au/benefits
• We offer a competitive salary which is open to negotiation pending on skills and experience.

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