Hybrid Offensive Security Specialist

Posted 3 weeks ago

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About the role

  • Reviewing and analysing findings from multiple data sources to assess their impact and determine remediation priorities.
  • Developing remediation plans for high-priority vulnerabilities, using your offensive security expertise to identify potential attack paths.
  • Collaborating across teams to disrupt those paths effectively, leveraging both your technical knowledge and that of others.
  • Influencing stakeholders including technology owners and remediation teams to commit to and implement remediation strategies.
  • Perform risk analysis on test data to ensure the most critical issues are addressed first, aligning with frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK and the Unified Kill Chain.
  • Use threat intelligence to guide future assessments, ensuring testing is relevant to current controls and risks.
  • Utilise BAS platforms and engage in continuous self-learning through provided resources to maintain your credibility and expertise.
  • Partner with internal and external SMEs across Security Operations, Engineering, Threat Intelligence, and Vulnerability Management to design effective solutions.
  • Mentor and guide colleagues, sharing knowledge and influencing others to resolve identified weaknesses.
  • Lead small projects, ensuring timely and accurate implementation of solutions, and design unbiased methods to validate their effectiveness.
  • Challenge and improve existing processes, contributing to documentation and reporting using tools like Kibana, Lucene, and Python.
  • Communicate technical findings clearly to Risk teams and other stakeholders, ensuring risks are well understood and documented.

Requirements

  • Experience within any of the following IT Security disciplines: Security Operations, Red teaming, Penetration Testing, Security Engineering.
  • Along with expert knowledge of various enterprise technologies/infrastructure including network architectures, operating systems and security controls.
  • Confident in their technical expertise and can present themselves as a technically competent SME.
  • Exposure to Security Monitoring and Security Control technologies
  • Exposure to Threat Intelligence sources
  • Good experience of typical enterprise security services including but not limited to: Threat Intelligence Penetration testing Anti-malware Email/SPAM management Authentication mechanisms SIEM WAF Firewalls Proxy technologies IDS/IPS DLP
  • Has a track record of technical delivery within a fast paced & pressured environment.
  • Engages key stakeholders well
  • Effective communicator 'not afraid to ask' mentality.

Benefits

  • 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
  • Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
  • An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
  • Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
  • Various other benefits and online discounts

Job title

Offensive Security Specialist

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

£51,200 - £64,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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