Security Consultant (Penetration Testing and Accreditation Support) for NATO with security clearance

You would spend the year finding what an adversary would find first.

A multinational defence organisation is looking for a penetration tester to work inside itstesting cell: leading or joining red and blue teams during military exercises and testing thesystems the rest of the year. On-site in The Hague Netherlands with around ten days of travelforeseen.

What you will be doing

• Leading or forming part of the red and blue teams during large multinational exercises
• Web infrastructure and application-level penetration testing
• Security design reviews checking compliance against organisational policy and directives
• Security consultancy and advice to projects plans and other parts of the organisation
• Working with configuration control boards accreditation boards and the nationalaccreditation authorities that sign systems off
• Briefing at both technical and executive level including the most senior officers onfindings and remediation

What you will need

• More than three years of hands-on depth across web application and IT infrastructurepenetration testing and network security architecture design
• Assessing vulnerabilities in operating systems software protocols and networks andevaluating security products and technologies
• System and network administration on both UNIX and Windows
• Recognised testing methodologies and the tooling that goes with them
• Scripting in at least one of Perl Python Ruby or shell
• Real technical knowledge of authentication and security protocols cryptography applicationsecurity malware infection techniques and the protections against them
• The ability to evaluate risk and write a mitigation plan not just a finding
• Clear structured technical writing executive summary technical detail and remediation foraudiences that read very differently

Why this one is worth a look

The exercises are real the scope is broad and your reports get read at the top of theorganisation. Few penetration testing roles combine that reach with this much technicalfreedom.