Expert Penetration Tester

Role Overview

A Penetration Tester with deep technical expertise in the processes, procedures, tools and methodology for assessing IT Security risk. The role requires an individual who can independently visualize the network topology from information provided, prepare tests, conduct hacker simulations and demonstrate the likelihood of data compromise via 'proof of concept exploitation' of a given vulnerability. Further to the tests, to be able to clearly describe the problem, the concerns and provide recommendations to fix.

Required Education and Technical Expertise

• Bachelor's Degree Required
• Technical and professional expertise as per the description above
• Certification: OSCP or higher Offensive Security Qualification
• AI Skills: Ability to work with LLMs, Agentic, Tools, MCP / Administrator level knowledge of Server Operating Systems specifically Unix and Windows
• Intricate technical knowledge of TCP/IP Networking/Routing, Intranet / Internet Architectures and Segregation Technologies/VLANs, Firewalls, Intrusion Detection, Intrusion Prevention, SQL Databases
• Ability to test web technologies e.g. web applications, containers, container managers
• Programming ability to create, read and modify exploit code to achieve system penetration
• C, C++, Java, C#, scripting knowledge is an asset
• Ability to document and present the penetration testing results including recommendations to fix

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

• Penetration Testing Experience with operating systems, web applications and network infrastructure
• Experience with using Penetration Testing Tools. e.g. NMap, Nessus, Metasploit, BurpSuite, Nikto, Tcpdump