Job Description

Do you like to tear a system apart and figure out how to make it sing and dance to your tune?
Do you have the skills, toolset knowledge and experience to do this efficiently?
Are you able to present your findings in business level reports and face to face with clients?

If any of the above resonates with you, then we\'d love to talk to YOU!

About Us

Planit are world leaders in application testing and quality engineering. We provide solutions that support organisations to deliver high quality systems, applications, and IT architecture. Planit is now a proud NRI company and part of a global movement to deliver a sustainable and secure future through better Information Technology exchanges.

Our team offer expert consultancy, bespoke services, tailored training, and unique solutions to complex projects. Specialising in digital quality, Planit have a geographic footprint across many continents, with 2000+ permanent employees and have been recognised in Gartner\'s Magic Quadrant for Application Testing Services. We\'ve recently crossed the 300 people mark in the UK with the acquisition of the Shift Left group.

Our Values and ethos are focused on an intrinsic connection to our people, the awareness of our environment and our pursuit to be better than yesterday. We continue to lead the industry with unrivalled ideas, ability, and a quest to discern paradigms.

Our Team

Our global security practice mission is to make a difference, for our clients through supporting business agility, productivity, and customer loyalty. We believe that our diversity is our strength and that we are more successful and productive as a team than as individuals. As our Security practice connects across the globe, we are an active community and use chat sessions, daily stand-ups, and weekly catch ups to discuss issues and new security news/developments.

We are committed to developing and growing our employees and we are looking for innovative thinkers to join us on the never-ending journey of discovery that is Security! Description:

About the Role

Our security practice is rapidly growing and need up and coming talent and experts in security assessments at a senior level who specialise in the creation of a security strategy, taking our clients on a journey to enable mature practices while driving vulnerability detection and remediation processes through penetration testing.

The work varies, often crosses multiple domains, is customer facing, and has short communication lines. We expect our employees to be flexible and willing to lend a hand, sometimes there are opportunities to travel and do short engagements at other locations. Many engagements allow you to work some or most of your time from home.

We want to make a difference in the UK & global markets, clients love us because we are pragmatic, flexible and we know our stuff. We are genuinely interested in helping our clients become more secure. We are not a \'tick the box\' organisation. Responsibilities:

Skills & Experience:

For the people that don\'t like stories and prefer to read lists - what we\'re looking for is:

• You can\'t stop talking about security (or the lack of)

• You have a hacker mindset and love to think creatively

• You have a strong understanding of vulnerabilities, common attack vectors and how to resolve them.

• You have significant penetration testing experience and offensive capabilities in numerous core competency areas primarily in applications, but also networks, infrastructure (cloud and on-prem)

• You have high level of competency with various programming languages, tools, standards, frameworks.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to talk to business owners as well as very technical people

• Ability to react quickly in a fast-paced environment with varying complexities and priorities

• Know when it is right to ask for help/support and are willing to go the extra mile to help and support other team members

• Experience with SAST and DAST technologies, like Micro Focus Fortify, Checkmarx, Sonarqube, AppScan, etc are helpful to have but not mandatory

• We\'d also be excited to hear if you have one/more of the following certs - CEH, CISA, CISSP, OSCP, eCPPT, OSWE, GCPN, eWPT, or similar Mandatory Skills & Experience:

What\'s in it for you

• Great career development opportunities, choose your own adventure style

• Opportunities to grow your skills vertically and horizontally. Choose how deep and wide you want to go

• Wide variety of work, from pen-testing SCADA, mobile, networks, to design work, risk assessments, guiding businesses on their DevSecOps journey

• Challenging engagements, something to really sink your teeth in

• Hybrid work model that provides flexibility

• Good benefits package

• Collaborative international team

• Expand your network through the engagements you\'ll do.

Whether you\'re passionate about security, customer service, data driven, or called by creativity, a career here is for you.

Our team brings their diverse backgrounds and perspectives to establish an inclusive and flexible place of work. We\'re supportive and share ideas, initiatives, driven by our values and energy. We focus on embedding security for our clients.

Salary - Up to \xc2\xa370,000.00 per annum

Planit is an equal employment opportunity employer, and while we would love to see as many applications as possible we are unable to provide visa sponsorships for this role. Therefore only candidates with pre-existing work rights will be shortlisted

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