Senior Security Consultant – Penetration Testing Leader

Robotico Digital Llp; Muscat; On-site; OMR 39,000 - 84,000; Full time

Job summary

Robotico Digital Llp is seeking a Senior Security Consultant in Muscat to lead penetration testing and security assessments across applications, APIs, infrastructure, and Kubernetes environments. You will identify vulnerabilities, validate fixes, and support compliance with banking security standards.

The role covers threat modelling, security testing across web, mobile, API and container platforms, and coordination with internal teams and external vendors.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7–9 years in cybersecurity with penetration testing and security assessments.
• Proven experience in Banking and Financial Services (BFSI), digital banking, mobile banking and payment systems.
• Exposure to regulatory compliance reviews and standards in banking security.

Responsibilities

• Perform web, mobile, API, network, container and Kubernetes penetration testing.
• Conduct Istio service mesh security assessments.
• Review operating systems, databases, firewalls and network-device configurations.
• Assess security architecture configurations, vulnerabilities and associated risks.
• Conduct threat modelling, security assessments and risk workshops.
• Coordinate internal and external penetration-testing vendors, including test planning, access coordination, findings validation, remediation tracking and retesting.
• Support security tool proof-of-concept (POC) activities and evaluate their effectiveness.
• Prepare technical assessment reports, executive summaries, risk ratings and remediation recommendations.
• Engage with application development, infrastructure, cloud and Information Security teams.
• Track remediation activities and validate closure of identified security findings

Skills

Web application security

Mobile application security

API and microservices security

Container and Kubernetes security

Istio service mesh

Network penetration testing

Configuration reviews

Security assessment and risk

Penetration-test vendor management

Threat modelling

Job description

Robotico Digital Llp is seeking a Senior Security Consultant in Muscat to lead penetration testing and security assessments across applications, APIs, infrastructure, and Kubernetes environments. You will identify vulnerabilities, validate fixes, and support compliance with banking security standards.

The role covers threat modelling, security testing across web, mobile, API and container platforms, and coordination with internal teams and external vendors.