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Job Title: Cyber Security Penetration Test Engineer
Location: Gaydon or Warwick, UK. With regular travel to manufacturing plants (Halewood, Solihull and others as required)
Contract duration: 6-month fixed term employment with possible extension
Hybrid work option: No. 5 days/week from client location
WHAT TO EXPECT
Cyber Security is a fast-paced and dynamic area within the Automotive Industry. You will be an elemental part of the Product Engineering teams delivering clients' products in a secure way always looking at improving the Cyber Security posture and responding to emergent threats.
As a Cyber Security Penetration Test Engineer, you will be responsible for developing the Cyber Security Penetration test lab, creating and reviewing penetration test scopes, penetration test plans, and penetration test reports, execute penetration tests, and support the creation of vulnerabilities and the related CSMS artefacts. You will support the Product Engineering teams to understand and support you to deliver the penetration test-related activities.
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Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities:
- Manage the delivery of penetration test activities as per CSMS (ISO 21434) according to scope, time, budget, and quality and build/review Vulnerability reports.
- Create penetration test scopes and plans for ECUs, systems, and vehicles and review pen test reports for ECUs, systems, and vehicles.
- Assess Cyber Security Penetration test scopes and plans for the products and run penetration tests as per penetration test scope for ECUs, systems, and vehicles.
- Manage and lead external penetration test suppliers and their activities and maintain and develop pen test scripts and tools for pen test and fuzz test.
- Support external penetration test activities for ECUs, systems, and vehicles, support Vulnerabilities resolution and VSOC by demonstrating vulnerabilities, attacks, PoCs, and support the sign-off of the Pen test relevant artefact and type approval activities.
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WHAT YOU’LL NEED
- Knowledge of any scripting language, including Python, CAPL, and others; knowledge of TARA, security concepts, and other Cyber security artefacts mentioned in ISO 21434 and of Cyber Security technologies used to protect embedded systems.
- Knowledge of, at least two or more of the automotive technologies: in-vehicle networks, safety-critical embedded software and hardware, low-level debug interfaces for embedded hardware, complex onboard computers, vehicle connectivity, etc.
- Understanding of high integrity systems, and secure software and/or hardware design principles, in an embedded environment.
- Ability to engineer in a way that is demonstrably compliant with standards and technical specifications. Excellent collaborative skills.
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