Penetration Tester - Knutsford, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

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Knutsford, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality and innovation behind us.

We offer careers that provide endless opportunity - helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive, and creatingfinancial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

We're committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business.

Providing the opportunity forall our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers' and clients' needs.

Whether you have family commitments or you're a carer, or whether you need studytime or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life.

What will you be doing?:

Working independently or as part of a team on penetration tests and global team and external entities to deliver Security Assurance services
Having good time management and organizational skills to undertake multiple supportive and advisory tasks concurrently
Having a superior ability to articulate technical concepts to nontechnical business owners and management
Providing regular assessment progress updates that include sufficient detail to convey work completed and upcoming activities
Providing security assurance support for security incidents/investigations as required
Communicating security issues identified and mitigation/remediation options to development community and generating of clear and concise reports
Supplementing automated assessment techniques with manual security assessment approaches
Maintaining relevant skills with which to conduct penetration testing in a number of the following domains to a significant degree of depth Application, Infrastructure, Mobile

What we're looking for:

Understanding of the security mechanisms associated with Applications, Operating Systems, Networks, Databases, Virtualisation and Cloud technologies
Wider SDL activities such as threat/attack modelling and design review
Understanding of network security architecture

Skills that will help you in the role:

Experience creating innovative solutions and responding to information security incidents
Knowledge of information security frameworks and standards
CREST/OSCP/SANS or equivalent pentesting certification and Knowledge of information security frameworks and standards

Where will you be working?
You will be based in Radbroke, Knutsford.

The Barclays Technology Campus just outside Manchester is our tech command centre and a vital strategic powerhouse behind our global operations.

The campus is set in a 64 acre self-contained site, in a beautiful greenenvironment and it offers unrivalled facilities for work and for play.

We have an onsite gym, as well as outdoor tennis, football and cricket areas, as well as onsite restaurant and coffee shops.

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