Team Lead Offensive Security

Asiera; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Work-Life Balance

Flexible hours

Health insurance

Pension plan

EAP

Cycle to Work

Education support

Training & development

Job summary

Asiera in Dublin is seeking an experienced Offensive Security Team Lead to guide a skilled group of penetration testers and ethical hackers. You will oversee client engagements, shape reports, and help strengthen defences across Ireland’s education and research sector.

This role offers a flexible Work-Life Balance framework with hybrid work: 2 in-office days and up to 3 days from home. You’ll mentor colleagues, develop new services, and manage vendor tools while delivering high-quality security

Qualifications

• Minimum two years leading, coordinating, or managing a technical security team.
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Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor the Offensive Security team.
• Oversee client engagements from start to final report.
• Review team reports for quality and consistency.
• Develop new security services for delivery by the team.
• Improve team processes and procedures.
• Procure tools and manage vendors used by the team.
• Mentor team members and conduct performance reviews.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Client facing

Communication

Offensive security

Team management

Education

InfoSec certifications

NFQ level 7+ qualification

Tools

Azure Core Infrastructure

ISO 27001

Job description

Asiera - Team Lead Offensive Security Consulting Services (Permanent contract)

If you’re passionate about leading a skilled technical team, ethical hacking and making a real impact, we’d love to hear from you!

As Offensive Security Team Lead, you’ll lead a talented team of penetration testers and ethical hackers, working with our clients to identify vulnerabilities, strengthen defences and help protect the services relied on by staff and students across Ireland’s education and research community.

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.

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.

Who are Asiera

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.

Company Benefits

• Flexible Work-Life Balance framework
• Flexible start/finish times
• Health insurance for employees
• Defined contribution pension scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• 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.

More important information

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. We take pride in developing, maintaining and enhancing our culture of wellbeing and continue to focus on this in 2026 and beyond.