Penetration Tester

**We are currently looking to recruit a Penetration Tester in our Armadillo division.**

**In Top 100 Best Companies to Work For, for over 10 years**

Armadillo, a Chess company, are a CREST approved Penetration Testing, Vulnerability Assessment and a STAR and GBEST Attach Simulation testing company.

Chess is one of the UK's leading independent and trusted technology service providers, employing 300 skilled people across the UK, supporting over 20,000 organisations.

By leveraging world-class technology, Chess helps you to connect your people, protect your data, grow your business, reduce your costs and work better together, which means your business, your people and your customers can thrive.

We're extremely proud that our people voted us No.1 in 'The Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work for' list 2018, and we continue to celebrate more than ten years in the top 100.

“a **great** place to work, a **great** place to be a customer”

**Duties to include but not restricted to**:

- Evaluate and select from a range of penetration testing tools
- Keep up to date with latest testing and ethical hacking methods
- Author technical reports to summarise your findings.
- Report on findings to a range of stakeholders
- Make suggestions for service line improvements

**Required Skills/Qualities**:

- Excellent communications skills - both client-facing and working alongside peers.
- Good understanding of network protocols
- Solid technical skills in both information security architecture and penetration testing
- A solid understanding of ethical hacking
- Scripting and programming experience is beneficial
- Ability to explain findings to a non-technical audience
- Excellent report writing and presentation skills
- Customer facing skills
- Able to work independently but also as part of a team
- Outstanding organisational and data analytics skills
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment
- Experience in physical and telephone-based social engineering (desirable)

**Desirable Qualifications**:

- NCSC CHECK Team Member (CTM)
- CREST CRT, Tiger QSTM or Cyber Scheme
- SC Clearance held (or prepared to undergo clearance)
- Offensive Security OSCP

**Required Experience**:

- Solid knowledge and experience of using a variety of penetration testing or threat modelling tools including open source and commercial
- Experience of threat reporting and assessing vulnerabilities
- Scripting skills are desirable

**Package Details**:
**Basic salary**: Up to £60,000 dependant on experience.

**Benefits include**: Pension, Health Care, Life Assurance, Loyalty Scheme, Salary Sacrifice Scheme, Mental Health support channels and access to employee benefits platform, Perkbox. This gives you access to hundreds of ‘Perks’ giving you great discounts. Whether it be days out, your weekly food shop, a clothes shopping spree on the high street and many more.

**Hours**: 37½ hours per week Monday to Friday, normal office hours apply.

**Holiday Allowance**: 25 days paid holiday, plus public holidays.

**Enhanced Security Screening**:
Due to the nature of the work undertaken within Armadillo and the sensitive data you will have access to, you will be required to undergo enhanced employment screening under BS7595:2019.

The checks will include the following:

- Written 5 year employment verification
- 5 year address verification
- ID verification (Visa, Passport, Work Permits)
- Credit Search (County Court Judgements, Insolvency, Bankruptcy Search)
- Basic Criminality Check

**“Play Your Part”**

Our growth creates opportunity for everyone to progress their career, to develop knowledge and skill, to gain reward and recognition and to maximise their potential. The growth and success of our people ensures the growth and success of our business. We believe that **“if you’re not growing, we’re not growing”.**

If you are looking for a career that brings exciting challenges and opportunities, then Chess is the place for you.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: Up to £60,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Flexitime
- On-site parking
- Private dental insurance
- Private medical insurance
- Referral programme
- Store discounts
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Reference ID: PT