Security Validation Consultant

2 weeks ago

Randburg, Gauteng, South Africa Absa Bank Limited Full time
Bring your possibility to life Define your career with us

  • With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.
Job Summary


The role requires the incumbent to perform research and keep up to date with the technology stacks used within the organisation.


Job Description:

Accountability:
Execution

  • Determine with relevant stakeholders appropriate testing requirements and potential testing impacts.
  • Gather intelligence (e.g. network and domain names, mail server) to better understand how a target works and its potential vulnerabilities.
  • Using available data and technical testing, perform a technical validation on each attack path and determine its likelihood of success.
  • Model the technical threats that the client would realistically face and identify vulnerabilities that will allow for those attacks.
  • Explain in detail the attack methodology and logic used in exploiting each vulnerability.
  • Develop an understanding of the target system business and technical context to prioritize attack paths and threats.
  • Identify solutions for common security problems and work with engineering teams and developers to remediate.

Accountability:
Stakeholder Management

  • Build effective working relationship/information flow with key stakeholders.
  • Hold regular communication sessions with relevant stakeholders.
  • Interface with stakeholders (General Assurance team, Risk Control Officers and CIOs) in a constructive and professional manner.
  • Effectively communicate successes and obstacles with team members and line manager.

Accountability:
Reporting

  • Produce actionable risk and threatbased reports on security testing results.
  • Ensure that risk statements and attack paths which are proved to be exploitable are reported with appropriate remediation and mitigating recommendations are made.
  • Assist the junior team members to produce actionable risk and threatbased reports on security testing results.
Education and experience required

  • Bachelor's degree or related certifications in information systems or related field.
  • Professional certification, such as CISSP, CEH, CCSP, OCSP or any other related qualification is advantageous.
  • Previous working experience of at least 3 years as a Penetration Testing Expert preferred.

Knowledge and skills:
(Maximum of 6)

  • Demonstrable understanding and execution of threat actor tactics, techniques and procedures, vulnerabilities, attacks and countermeasures
  • Understanding of the cyber kill chain in relation to Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) knowledge of SIEM technologies and security tooling
  • Knowledge of compromise frameworks (e.g. OWASP, Mitre Attack tool) and technical threat modelling
  • Demonstrable understanding and usage of penetration testing tools (e.g. BurpSuite, Metasploit)
  • Programming ability to be able to create own penetration testing scripts when required
  • Demonstrate deep technical capabilities across one or more of the following domains Infrastructure, Network, Web Applications, Mobile Applications and Cloud.
  • Able to explain technical details of assessment as well as how to remediate vulnerabilities found
Education

Bachelor's Degrees and Advanced Diplomas:
Services (required)

  • Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised_

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