Pentest People Hiring for Security Consultant – Graduates Job at Leeds, England Full Time

Job type: Full time
Location: Leeds offices (remote considered for experienced consultants)

Description:
Pentest People are looking for enthusiastic graduates to join our fast-growing consultancy, based in Leeds to become security consultants. A typical day in the life of a security consultant would involve testing applications/infrastructures, assisting sales with scoping and writing reports. We are purely a penetration testing company so if you this is your passion, we would love to hear from you!
Pentest People cover a wide range of services from applications (web, mobile, API), infrastructure, social engineering (phishing, vishing, physical intrusion) and cloud testing. We offer consultants the opportunity to test all areas.
Bonus points for bringing vulnerable applications or virtual machines that you have created yourself to the interview! Be creative, show us something that you are interested in…
It should be noted that an excellent level of written English is absolutely essential for this role.

Responsibilities:
Performing penetration tests
Writing high quality report
Scoping work
Client interaction

Cultural & Work Environment
You will start by shadowing consultants to learn your specialist area, we will quickly throw you into the deep end with lots of support from all consultants. Your diary will be constantly changing in a high paced work environment, in non-covid times, infrastructure testers are likely to be travelling regularly around the UK and sometimes abroad. Some travel is also required for application specialists. You will be offered support from all consultants, and you will be expected to do the same once you have experience.
Love talking about the latest vulnerabilities, showing off new tools that you have created, and an endless supply of memes?

Application Testing
Working knowledge of burpsuite professional
An understanding of core networking protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, SSH, FTP etc.)
Willingness to learn how to create basic CRUD (create, read, update, delete) style applications using HTML, CSS, Javascript and any preferred backend language.
Ability too or willingness to learn scripting in one or more of the following languages: Ruby, Python, Go
Excellent written skills

Infrastructure Testing
Working knowledge of Windows/Linux Operating systems and applications
Experience with specific testing tools such as nmap/metasploit/kali linux suite of tools etc
Understanding of networking including subnets
Willingness to learn enumeration and exploitation techniques as part of a network security assessment
Excellent written skills
Currently, work in technology but no experience penetrating testing? This is a non-exhaustive list of profiles that we look for.
You are still expected to have good working knowledge security practice and principles in your specialist area.

Application Testing
Web Developers
Software Developers
DBA

Infrastructure Testing
Sys Admins
Infrastructure Engineers
Security Analysts

Don’t work in technology but want to change careers?
We are willing to consider applicants with no previous technology experience or entry-level roles. These candidates are expecting to be able to demonstrate a high aptitude of knowledge in either infrastructure or application technologies and a desire to learn. OSCP is one way to achieve this.