Senior Penetration Tester

ALTEN; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medicover medical care

Medicover dental care

Medicover Benefits platform

Medicover Sport card

Referral Program

Layette for a newborn employee’s child

Group life insurance

Pension scheme

Job summary

ALTEN Polska in Kraków is seeking a Penetration Testing SME to provide expert security testing guidance and hands-on testing across diverse technologies. The role involves leading engagements, mentoring teammates, and collaborating with DevSecOps to automate testing and improve security postures.

The successful candidate will represent the Cybersecurity function as a technical SME and drive improvements aligned with regulatory and internal standards, while supporting long-term, world-class

Qualifications

• Proven experience in security testing and penetration testing across multiple tech stacks.
• Ability to lead security testing projects and articulate risk to business stakeholders.
• Experience mentoring junior security staff and coordinating with global teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead/perform design and delivery of penetration tests across technologies.
• Work within security teams to ensure quality delivery of security solutions.
• Lead tests to clearly articulate risk in business terms.
• Drive penetration tests to ensure the organization operates within defined risk appetite.
• Represent Cybersecurity as SME in internal and external discussions.
• Improve service quality and efficiency within the Cybersecurity function.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and internal controls.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to enhance the cybersecurity strategy.

Job description

This job role is responsible for providing subject matter expertise in Penetration Testing to support wider Cyber Security efforts and organization. The successful candidate will operate as part of a global/regional team within the Cybersecurity organization to provide expertise, oversight and assurance around security process, controls, standards and regulatory requirements.

Key purpose of this position is to:

• Lead/perform and own the design and delivery of penetration tests across variety of technologies.
• Work within virtual teams of security and technical specialists to ensure quality delivery of world class security solutions to the business.
• Lead penetration tests designed to highlight and clearly articulate risk to the business, in terms the business can understand.
• Drive and lead penetration tests and resulting deliverables, to aid in ensuring that the Bank operates within defined risk appetite
• Represent Cybersecurity function as technical SME in internal and external discussions.
• Help drive the maturity of Cybersecurity function by continuously improving quality of our services and removing inefficiencies, in line with wider Cybersecurity strategy.
• Ensure adherence to the three lines of defence organisational model, with clear lines of responsibility, accountability and segregation of duties.
• Ensure compliance with internal audit and external regulators, to ensure that any organisational changes are fit for purpose and meet their expectations.
• Collaborate with relevant stakeholders to enhances the delivery of a Cybersecurity strategy to secure the bank's technology, protecting and enhancing values, reputation and stakeholder value.
• Provide supervision, guidance and mentor less experienced members of a team

Principal Accountabilities

• Perform highly technical/analytical security assessments of custom mobile applications, widely understood infrastructure and networks, web services and APIs. This covers manual penetration testing, source code and configuration review.
• Clearly and professionally document root cause and risk analysis of all findings
• Adhere to the security testing process and raise any gaps or opportunities for improvement with manager.
• Work closely with the DevOps teams to ensure that the security testing requirements are met and help automate repetitive tasks.
• Develop understanding of business functionality and apply testing methodology as appropriate to technologies and risks
• Code and demonstrate basic proof-of-concept exploits of vulnerabilities when required.
• Assist with coordination of security testing projects according to a structured process, including writing test plans, test cases and test reports.
• Advise on vulnerability remediation, control implementation and secure development practices
• Assess product release risk and complexity and identify potential misuse scenarios through review of business requirements and design specifications
• Assist with tracking, remediation, and risk acceptance for identified security vulnerabilities.
• Assist in planning, test execution and vulnerability mitigation
• Ensure that company security policies are implemented, enforced, and enhanced when appropriate
• Participate in team discussions to formulate new or enhance existing processes and standards
• Assist in security incident response activities
• Adhere strictly to compliance and operational risk controls in accordance with company and regulatory standards, policies and practices; report control weaknesses, compliance breaches and operational loss events
• Run evaluations of new security testing technologies and provide recommendations.
• Monitor security industry information sources and keep abreast of events, research, and developments.
• Identify opportunities to improve our processes, quality of the work and efficiencies.

We offer a full-time employment contract

• Location: Kraków (hybrid, 6 office visits/month).
• Stable and long-term cooperation
• Well-defined career path at the European leader in engineering & IT consulting
• Opportunity to relocate and work in different ALTEN Polska branches
• After completion of the project, opportunity to engage in a subsequent one within the company
• Introduction and cooperation with dedicated Competences Manager

Benefits:

• Medicover medical care
• Medicover dental care
• Medicover Benefits platform
• Medicover Sport card
• Referral Program
• Layette for a newborn employee’s child
• Group life insurance
• Pension scheme

We also guarantee:

• Access to professional certifications with our technology partners (e.g. Google, ISTQB)
• Access to relevant industry events
• Access to the Knowledge Sharing Program
• Access to Referral program

We also offer cooperation based on a B2B or Contract of mandate (UZ).

NOTICE: We kindly inform you that we will contact the selected people.