Eames Consulting
Senior Penetration Tester - £700 to £800 (Inside IR35) - 6-12 months
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Senior Penetration Tester - £700 to £800 per day (Inside IR35)
Hybrid working - 1 to 2 days per week in the office (Ideally London)
Contract Senior Penetration Tester responsible for leading AI-enabled vulnerability research and bug-hunting across priority applications, with initial focus on internet-facing assets. The role combines deep manual offensive testing with frontier-model-assisted discovery, exploit validation (including chaining), risk-based triage, and remediation enablement. Focus is on identifying real exploitable risk quickly, preventing triage backlog growth, and improving security engineering outcomes through repeatable testing standards and guardrails.
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Project Context
- Critical programme addressing AI-related security threats
- Strong executive visibility
- Building a new specialist squad within Cyber Security
- Work will be iterative and agile, focused on identifying and remediating vulnerabilities
Role Purpose
- Combine traditional penetration testing with AI capabilities
- AI-enabled vulnerability research
- Bug hunting using LLMs (Large Language Models)
- Perform end-to-end testing, including:
- Source code review using AI
- Analysing AI outputs
- Manually validating vulnerabilities
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Key Requirements (Must-Have)
- Strong manual penetration testing experience
- Experience with:
- Vulnerability research
- Pen testing tools, methodologies, and processes
- Hands-on experience using AI/LLMs
- Experimenting with AI for security testing
- Using LLMs for automation or research
- Ability to:
- Validate AI-generated findings manually
- Translate findings into actionable insights
Nice-to-Have
- Experience building or automating AI-driven testing workflows
- Bug bounty / research background
- Advanced experimentation with LLMs in security contexts
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