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    Senior Penetration Tester

    Location: London Area, United Kingdom (Hybrid)

    Contract Type: Permanent

    Senior Penetration Tester

    What You’ll Do

    You’ll be on the front lines of our security efforts, thinking like an attacker to help us stay one step ahead. As a Senior Offensive Security Engineer, you’ll break things (responsibly), uncover weaknesses, and help us build stronger, more resilient systems.

    This is a hands-on role where you’ll move fast, experiment, and have real impact. You’ll work closely with engineers, product teams, and security to turn findings into fixes — not just reports.

    Day to day, you’ll:

    • Hack our own systems to find and fix vulnerabilities before others do
    • Run white-box and black-box pentests across apps, infrastructure, and APIs
    • Triage bug bounty reports and dig into external findings
    • Go beyond surface issues with root cause and variant analysis
    • Tear apart third-party tools and integrations to understand their risk
    • Build scrappy (and scalable) tools for recon, automation, and insights
    • Partner with engineers and the SOC to solve real security problems
    • Share knowledge through demos, workshops, and hands-on sessions
    • Help us decide where to focus to get the biggest security wins
    • Shape and evolve our security programme as we grow

    Who You Are

    You’re curious, pragmatic, and love breaking things to make them better. You don’t just find problems — you help fix them.

    • Have solid experience in penetration testing and offensive security
    • Can spot vulnerabilities in code (especially Java and Node.js)
    • Understand modern architectures — AWS, microservices, APIs
    • Communicate clearly and give practical, actionable remediation advice
    • Comfortable scripting and contributing to larger projects in Python
    • Take ownership and don’t wait to be told what to do

    Nice to have:

    • Certs like OSCP, OSWE, CREST, GIAC, AWS (or equivalent experience)
    • CTFs, bug bounty hunting, or involvement in the security community
    Rhys Shekleton

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    Rhys Shekleton

    Associate Director

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