Penetration Tester

Telefonica Tech; Belfast; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

Company Description

Telefónica Tech is a leading provider of innovative tech services for the B2B market with a worldwide presence and strategic hubs in Spain, Brazil, UK and Germany. The company helps leading brands and organisations across the UK and Ireland unlock the power of integrated technology for all businesses, bringing together in one place a unique combination of the best people, with the best tech and the best platforms in a simplified manner, to make a real difference to every business, every day.

We have an end-to-end portfolio of market leading services and develop integrated technology solutions to accelerate tech adoption through its two core divisions of Tech Cyber security & Cloud and Tech Intelligence of Things. The company has a diverse, highly trained and globally located talent pool of over 2000 employees and serves more than 5.5m customers every day with a service reach in 175 countries. Its dynamic partner ecosystem includes over 300 cutting edge businesses, as well as strategic agreements with all market leaders.

Job Description

This is a full-time role for a Penetration Tester to join a mature managed services Cyber team who manage the security posture of critical infrastructure and services under an ISO27001 and Cyber Essentials + certified managed service environment.

You will be responsible for conducting Adversary Emulation which includes penetration tests as well as red-teaming exercises for healthcare enterprises.

This is a technical, hands-on role, and the successful candidate will be responsible for showcasing how an adversary can take advantage of vulnerable systems in an organization to get initial access to enterprise assets and then move laterally to widen the impact. They will also be responsible for providing very specific guidance to mitigate these security gaps/mis-configs/vulnerabilities.

The successful candidate will be responsible for conducting Adversary emulation on various enterprise environments including but not limited to On-prem Infrastructure, Cloud, Web Apps, Non-Web Apps, IoT, Mobile Apps and Devices, Scada environments, etc.

Qualifications

Skills & Experience:

1. Extensive experience in conducting penetration tests for Applications, IT Infrastructure Services, Cloud, IoT, Scada, Network devices, Mobile Platforms, Hardware appliances, etc.
2. Experience in planning and executing Whitebox, Blackbox, and Greybox penetration testing.
3. Experience in planning and executing red teaming exercises including general reconnaissance, social engineering, breach simulations etc.
4. Experience in conducting automated as well as manual penetration tests.
5. Experience in conducting manual config reviews for Network devices, Servers, IoT devices, Applications etc.
6. In-depth understanding of general security principles.
7. In-depth understanding of how security technologies like firewalls, EDR, SIEM, TVM operate in a coherent manner, and how to avoid unnecessary alerts while executing an Adversary Emulation exercise.
8. Excellent communication, reporting, and presentation skills.
9. Ability to plan, prioritise, be proactive and manage own workload.
10. Understand up-to-date security threats and common exploits.
11. Have an open attitude to sharing knowledge and information.
12. Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
13. Desire to learn new technologies.
14. A motivated attitude to learn and challenge comfort zone.
15. To keep up to date with the latest security and technology developments.

Desirable

1. Cyber security certification (e.g. OSCP, CRTO, OSCE, OSWP, etc).
2. Scripting Experience.

Additional Information

1. Must have the right to live and work in the UK or Republic of Ireland.
2. Due to our location, access to own transport is essential.
3. Must meet Security Clearance requirements if this is a requirement of the role and any offer would be conditional upon the successful candidate passing BPSS which includes a criminal record check.
4. Role can be worked remotely from within the UK and Ireland but occasional travel to Dublin/Belfast will be required.

We don't believe hiring is a tick box exercise, so if you feel that you don't match the job description 100%, but would still be a great fit for the role, please get in touch.