Lead Penetration Tester

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Lead Penetration Tester

Salary: £60,000 - £85,000

Location: London

About the role:

An exciting opportunity within one of the world's leading Cyber Security Consultancy, has arisen for an accomplished Lead Penetration Tester. This opportunity is available for a talented individual to work in a dynamic growing security environment along side a group of highly experienced cyber security individuals.

Working with the latest, cutting edge techonolgy, the successful individual will be tasked with leading a group of both Junior and Senior Pentesters, to carry out penetration tests and security assessments within the busniess and clients, right up to targeted attack simulations.

Key Responsibilities:

* A desire to work in a vibrant team of experts to conduct penetration tests in their internal/external web and mobile applications.

* Be able to lead a team of both Junior and Senior Pentesters including providing trainning to all levels.

* Leveraging both manual techniques as well as automated tools in order to uncover and report security vulnerabilities that exist.

* Be able to engage with different areas within the company, to describe and explain vulnerability reports for remediation protocol.

* Previous experience as a Penetration Tester is mandatory.

Key Skills & Requirements:

* Capability to demonstrate manual web and mobile application penetration testing experience.

* Experience with Burpsuite Pro would be a significant advantage but experience with other web application vulnerability scanning tools (e.g. IBM AppScan, HP Webinspect, Accuntix, NTO Spider etc.) would be desirable.

* Insight in penetration testing on mobile platforms such as IOS, Android, Windows and RIM.

* Experience with vulnerability assessment tools and penetration testing techniques (e.g. web application proxies, packet capture analysis software, browser extensions, advanced penetration testing Linux distributions, static source code analyzers, SoapUI etc.)

* Solid programming/debugging skills with proficiency in one or more of the following: Java, JavaScript, HTML, XML, PHP, ASP.NET, AJAX, JSON, Objective-C

* Solid scripting skills (e.g. Python, Perl, Shell script. JavaScript)

* One or more of the following certifications are mandetory: OSCP, OSCE, CRT, CCT for example.