Security Testing Consultant

Job Description

Location(s): UK, Europe & Africa : UK : Guildford || UK, Europe & Africa : UK : Leeds || UK, Europe & Africa : UK : London 

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.

Job Title: Security Testing Consultant – Hybrid

Requisition ID: 121050

Location: London, Guildford or Leeds – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Grade: GG10 – GG10                                                                                                                                   

Referral Bonus: £5,000

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence offers world class threat intelligence services to customers across the globe. Our team investigate some of the most complex nation state threat actors and intrusions on a daily basis. We currently have a vacancy for an experienced Security Testing Consultant to join our growing team of specialists. The successful candidate will be supporting customers across National Security, Defence, and Critical Infrastructure sectors. This position is part of our global Cyber Technical Services team, which includes adjacent areas of Threat Intelligence and Incident Response.

We are looking for a candidate with proven experience delivering security testing projects and a practical knowledge of testing tools, techniques, and procedures.  If you are excited by this opportunity and would like to be part of a growing team then apply now!   This role can be based from our Guildford, London or Leeds offices and is a hybrid role with flexibility as to office days.

What you will be doing:

• Delivery of end-to-end security testing engagements, including scoping and client wash-up meetings.
• Performing application testing, web and mobile tests, infrastructure testing, objective based tests, and intelligence-led tests.
• Production of detailed reporting and presentations for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Safe and responsible use of testing tools, ensuring controls are in place to limit risks during customer engagements.
• Developing improvements in terms of scripts, tools, or techniques to enhance the Security Testing team's capabilities.
• Knowledge sharing with colleagues in other teams, including Threat Intelligence, Incident Response, and the wider Security Consulting community

The skills and experience we are looking for:

• Experience delivering security testing projects, ability to demonstrate comprehensive, practical knowledge of testing tools, techniques, and procedures.
• Understanding of client needs in terms of testing outcomes, stakeholder engagement, and risk mitigation.
• Self-starter with ability to identify problems early and develop solutions using own initiative.
• The ability to work to strict deadlines and prioritise work appropriately.
• Technical skills with an interest in one or more of the following: adversary emulation, vulnerability discovery, reverse-engineering, emerging technology.
• Flexibility and willingness to travel both within the UK and globally.
• Current CREST Registered Tester or OSCP.

Desirable skills:

• Experience in a high level scripting language such as Python, mid level language such as C/C++, or low level language such as ASM.
• Skills and experience in application, operating system, database management operation, development, or security management.
• Experience in testing within Government, Telecommunications, Energy, or Financial Services sectors.
• Exploit development or other in depth vulnerability research experience.

Security Clearance:

You must have the permanent and unrestricted right to live and work in the UK to be considered for this position. Security Clearance is required for this role, if you are not currently Security Cleared you will need to be eligible for this and willing to go through the clearance process. 

How we will support you:

• Work-life balance is important; you’ll get 25 days holiday a year and, via our flexible benefits package
• You’ll have a dedicated Career Manager to help you develop your career and guide you on your journey through BAE Systems
• Don’t know a particular technology? Your learning and development is key to your future career
• You’ll be part of our bonus scheme
• You are welcome to join any/all of our Diversity and Support groups.  These groups cover everything from gender diversity to mental health and well being.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals.

We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.”

This vacancy is eligible for the UK Employee Referral Scheme. Amount: £5000

Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence 

We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day.

By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we’re working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance well-being.

Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds – the best and brightest minds – can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential. 

Division overview: Capabilities

At BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, we pride ourselves in being a leader in the cyber defence industry, and Capabilities is the engine that keeps the business moving forward. It is the largest area of Digital Intelligence, containing our Engineering, Consulting and Project Management teams that design and implement the defence solutions and digital transformation projects that make us a globally recognised brand in both the public and private sector.

As a member of the Capabilities team, you will be creating and managing the solutions that earn us our place in an ever changing digital world. We all have a role to play in defending our clients, and this is yours.