Senior Penetration Tester

Our Client a Global Tech firm is seeking a Senior Penetration Engineer to join their team in Sandton. They offer stability, growth, attractive salary along with excellent benefits and a great working environment.

**Job Description Summary**

**Key Roles and Responsibilities**:

- Perform penetration tests against internal and external facing systems.
- Provide input to improve the quality and effectiveness of tests in a highly scaled and global environment.
- Articulate complex technical risks through creation of reports and delivering presentations to key stakeholders.
- Work with Security DevOps teams to test the orchestration and automation processes and platforms, feed results into a testing program.
- Support the assessment risk and the development and/or recommends appropriate mitigation countermeasures based on empirical testing.
- Support the development of the security automation framework and the implementation roadmap.

**Knowledge, Skills and Attributes**:

- Ability to work unsupervised in a remote capacity and deliver results
- Demonstrate a strong ability to engage with various stakeholders, have a team based approach and work towards share goals and outcomes.
- Ability to think outside the box and a passion to improve your skills and drive innovation
- Ability to compromise systems and demonstrate ways to laterally move post compromise
- Academic Qualifications and Certifications:

- Information Technology degree
- Security related certifications such as OSCP, OSCE or CREST are desirable

**Required Experience**:

- Extensive penetration testing experience in a similar role.
- Experience with both commercial and open source security tools and scripting languages
- Exposure to security testing scenarios e.g. Capture the Flag / Red Team / Blue Team is desirable
- Experience with various testing platforms e.g. Hack the Box / Vulnhub / PentesterLab is desirable