Team Lead - Offensive Security

HEAnet & EduCampus; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Work-Life Balance framework

Health insurance for employees

Defined contribution pension scheme

EAP (Employee Assistance Program)

Job summary

Asiera is seeking an experienced Team Lead for the Offensive Security Consultancy Services to guide penetration testing and related engagements for our Irish education sector clients. This role leads a team of testers, mentors staff, and ensures high-quality reporting and client delivery.

The position is based in Dublin with a Work-Life Balance Framework offering up to three days working from home per week, while requiring presence at the office at least two days weekly.

Qualifications

• 2+ years leading or mentoring a technical team in offensive security.
• 2+ years conducting penetration tests, vulnerability scans, and phishing simulations.
• Professional information security certifications or equivalent NFQ level 7+ in information security.
• Experience with ISO 27001 information security management systems.
• Experience managing Azure Core Infrastructure.
• Completed leadership training and strong client-facing communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of penetration testers and ethical hackers for client engagements.
• Coordinate engagements from statements of work to final reporting and delivery.
• Review reports for quality, accuracy, and consistency; ensure client requirements are met.
• Develop and propose new services delivered by the team.
• Support process improvements and vendor/tool procurement for the team.
• Mentor team members and conduct performance reviews.

Skills

Team leadership

Penetration testing

Education

NFQ level 7+ information security

Tools

Azure Core Infrastructure

Job description

Asiera – Offensive Security Consulting Services Team Lead

Formerly known as HEAnet and EduCampus, we have been supporting Ireland’s academic and research community since 1983. We are now proud to come together as one unified organisation. Our new name Asiera captures what drives us every day – Advancing Services for Irish Education, Research and Academia.

Every day, our national education and research network supports more than 1.3 million students and researchers and over 175,000 staff across Ireland’s schools, ETBs and higher education institutions – more than 1.5 million people in total. In addition, we provide mission-critical management information systems to over 140,000 students and 20,000 staff across Ireland’s universities, technological universities, institutes of technology and colleges.

In Asiera, we are building an end-to-end digital ecosystem for Irish education, one that connects, enables, and empowers learners and institutions to thrive in an increasingly digital world.

We are seeking to appoint an experienced Team Lead toleadour Offensive Security Consultancy Services Team on a permanent contract basis.

This role is based at our Dublin 1 office; however, we are pleased to offer a flexible working arrangement via our Work-Life Balance Framework. This allows you to work from home up to three (3) days a week. You will be expected to work at least two (2) days a week in the office, giving you the opportunity to enjoy a balanced and dynamic work environment.

What the Offensive Security Consultancy Services Team does

The Offensive Security Team conducts vulnerability scans, penetration tests, phishing simulations and breach simulations for Asiera's clients.

What the Offensive Security Team Lead does

Reporting to the Security Consultancy Services Manager, this role will lead ateamof penetration testers and ethical hackers tosupportAsiera's clientsin delivering and maintaining secure services for their staff and students.

Key Responsibilities will include:

• Liaise with Asiera clients to avail of our Offensive Security Consultancy Services.
• Support team members to complete client engagements, from statements of work through to final report.
• Review all reports created by the team for quality, accuracy and consistency.
• Develop new services to be delivered by the team.
• Support the team in improving its processes and procedures.
• Procure tools and manage vendors used by the team.
• Assist Asiera with client security focused workshops.
• Mentor team members and develop the teams skillsets.
• Conduct performance reviews of team members under Asiera's performance management system.

Howwedoit

Our company values underpin how we do things in Asiera. We believe in and live by our values and understand they are integral to making Asiera a great place to work.

COLLABORATION - EQUALITY & FAIRNESS - FUTURE FOCUSED - POSITIVE IMPACT - EXCELLENCE

For further information about who we are and our core values, see https://www.asiera.ie/strategy-values/

What you get from us

We promote a healthy work/life balance, and we take the care of our team members mental health seriously. Work outside of standard hours is rare and agreed in advance.

We value knowledge sharing and communication. We have frequent team meetings combined with regular 1:1 catch-ups to make sure no one is hitting any roadblocks.

We encourage critical thinking and the exploration of new ideas. We often form cross-team special interest groups for specific topic discussions, both ongoing and for fixed projects.

Company Benefits

• Flexible Work-Life Balance framework

• Flexible start/finish times
• Health insurance for employees
• Defined contribution pension scheme
• Ongoing wellbeing initiatives
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Tax SaverTicket scheme
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Professional education support
• Comprehensive group and individual training & development initiatives

What we need from you

• Minimum two (2) years experience leading, co-ordinating, or managing a technical team, or mentoring less experienced colleagues in the field of offensive security.

• Minimum two (2) years experience of conducting penetration tests, vulnerability scans and phishing simulations.

• Professional information security certifications or a qualification above NFQ level 7 in the field of information security.

• Experience with Information Security Management Systems such as ISO 27001.

• Experience of managing Azure Core Infrastructure.
• Completed leadership training.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with proven experience in a client facing role.

Bonus Points

We don't need you to have experience in the following areas, but if you did it could be beneficial:

• Document management,SharePoint, data analysis, Power BI & Project Management
• Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst certification
• Experience with the use of AI to improve information security.

Moreimportantinformation

At Asiera we celebrate diversity and understand how important it is to our ongoing success. We would like to hear from candidates who are great at what they do and whose values align with ours.

If you need any adjustments made to the application or selection process so you can do your best, please let us know.

Asiera are delighted to be awarded with the Ibec Keep Well Mark and many other accreditations. We take pride in developing, maintaining and enhancing our culture of wellbeing and continue to focus on this in 2026 and beyond.