Associate Penetration Tester

Role Mission

Claranet’s strategy is to build long-term, trusted relationships with its customers by delivering market-leading, integrated managed services. We are seeking a leader to build and to own the existing and future market-leading multi-solutions portfolio that Claranet offers to customers that enables cross and up sell.

Objectives & Key Results

• Undertaking web application testing and infrastructure testing engagements
  
  
• Using the opportunities provided by the business to improve skills and capabilities into all areas of testing
  
  
• Working with key clients providing bespoke consultancy, analysis and expertise
  
  
• Assisting with pre/post sales activities as required
  
  
• Encouraging a positive, proactive, collaborative and solution-oriented approach among colleagues
  
  
• Communicating within Claranet and with clients, both orally and in writing
  
  Teams To Collaborate With
  
  
• Customer Experience & Managed Services – Ensure we are consistently providing the best service to our customers, proactively monitoring their needs, and integrating their feedback into our future portfolio and propositions
  
  
• Customer Success & Growth – Ensure that the portfolio is up to date, meets customer needs and enables cross and up selling. Agree Portfolio Mix, Volumes and Targets to ensure alignment.
  
  
• Finance contributes to the budget process for portfolio and propositions development
  
  
• HR & People – Support recruitment and learning and development strategies to develop industry leading product and service offerings
  
  
• Business Development – Enables pipeline growth and cross sell opportunities to new and existing customers by providing advanced support across bid, marketing & PR, sales operations, product and project management functions.
  
  Position Specifications
  
  Behavioural Competencies – Organisational & Behavioural Fit
  
  
• Client facing, able to confidently and professionally represent the company
  
  
• Must be self-motivated and able to work in an independent manner as well as part of a team
  
  
• Excellent written and oral communications skills
  
  
• Positive, collaborative and enthusiastic
  
  
• Conducting penetration testing work out of normal office hours on occasion
  
  
• Willing to travel to deliver onsite work as required
  
  
• Appetite to shadow, train and develop to improve capabilities into all areas of security testing
  
  Critical Competencies – Technical Fit
  
  Essential Technical:
  
  
• Have a good understanding of web and external infrastructure testing and methodologies
  
  
• Able to manually and proficiently exploit web application and network infrastructure vulnerabilities
  
  
• Have a logical and time-conscious approach to report writing
  
  
• Have experience of at least one scripting language such as Ruby, Python or Perl
  
  Desirable Experience:
  
  
• Delivering chargeable web app testing engagements
  
  
• Providing remediation advice
  
  
• Producing accurate technical reports
  
  
• Working under pressure of deadlines and structuring workload accordingly
  
  
• Problem-solving, helping others to understand complex ideas
  
  In addition, the following are highly desirable:
  
  
• A related Batchelor’s degree.
  
  
• Experience with Bug Bounties
  
  
• Full UK driving license