Taskr
Cyber Security Consultant
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Taskr Penetration Testing Opportunity
Taskr is working to grow a penetration testing capability within a Government environment. As part of this expansion, we are looking for an experienced Senior Penetration Tester or Cyber Security Consultant who can combine strong hands-on technical capability with leadership, mentoring and strategic input.
The successful candidate will be comfortable operating across a broad technical landscape, with experience assessing modern cloud environments alongside traditional infrastructure, networks and applications.
The role will be offered as a remote, outside IR35 contract.
The Role
You will take ownership of penetration testing and security assessment activities across a range of environments and technologies. This will include planning and delivering engagements, identifying weaknesses, validating vulnerabilities and communicating findings clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
As a senior member of the team, you will also contribute beyond individual engagements. Key responsibilities will include:
- Planning, scoping and leading penetration testing assignments from initial engagement through to final reporting.
- Conducting security testing across cloud platforms, applications, networks, infrastructure and associated services.
- Assessing the security of environments hosted within Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- Performing web application and infrastructure penetration testing, identifying vulnerabilities and demonstrating their potential impact.
- Assessing modern containerised and automated environments, including Docker and Kubernetes.
- Evaluating security considerations within CI/CD pipelines and DevOps environments.
- Reviewing technical architectures and identifying weaknesses or opportunities to improve an organisation's overall security posture.
- Producing high-quality technical reports, clearly documenting vulnerabilities, evidence, risk and appropriate remediation recommendations.
- Presenting findings to stakeholders and adapting technical explanations to suit different audiences.
- Supporting the development of junior and mid-level penetration testers through coaching, knowledge sharing and day-to-day technical guidance.
- Running technical workshops, knowledge-sharing sessions and team development activities.
- Contributing to the wider security function and helping shape the future direction of the penetration testing capability.
- Keeping current with emerging attack techniques, cloud technologies, tooling and changes in the wider threat landscape.
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Experience Required:
Cloud Security
- Practical experience performing security testing within Azure and/or AWS environments.
- Understanding of cloud-native architectures, identity and access management, networking, storage and common cloud security controls.
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Applications & Infrastructure
- Strong experience with web application penetration testing.
- Network and infrastructure security assessments.
- Experience identifying, exploiting and validating vulnerabilities across complex environments.
- Ability to move from vulnerability identification through to meaningful risk assessment and remediation advice.
Modern Engineering Environments
- Familiarity with containerised environments and associated security considerations.
- Experience working with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Understanding of automated deployment environments and CI/CD pipelines.
- Awareness of the security challenges introduced by DevOps and cloud-native development practices.
Security Architecture
- Ability to review technical designs and architectures from an attacker's perspective.
- Understanding of how individual vulnerabilities can contribute to wider architectural or systemic risks.
- Confidence engaging with architects, engineers and senior security stakeholders.
Clearance & Eligibility
Due to the nature of the environment and the clients involved, active UK Security Check (SC) clearance is an essential requirement for this position.
Candidates must also hold full and unrestricted Right to Work in the United Kingdom. Sponsorship or time-limited working arrangements cannot be accommodated for this role.
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