Senior Penetration Tester

Come and join our AMCS Cyber security team and be a part of a high-powered and high-performing team that regularly works across the entire organization, with everyone from product teams to executives. Urgent escalations from enterprise customers, investigating reported vulnerabilities, performing root cause analysis.

We are looking for a new team member who will be responsible to perform following activities (but not limited to):

Responsibility

As a penetration tester, you'll need to:

• Analyse IT (Information Technology) infrastructure, systems, and applications for susceptibility to various security exploits and threats. Recommend best practices to mitigate vulnerabilities and partner with IT colleagues to implement fixes. Develop and manage processes for validating and testing security policy, such as routine scans, application exploit tests, social engineering simulations, and network penetration testing.

• Create reports based on findings, identify remediation steps, and disseminate them to stakeholders.

• Perform in-depth analysis and testing on new systems, vendor connections, applications, and implemented vulnerability patches.

• Carry out remote testing (reverse engineering) on AMCS network for testing of the infrastructure to expose weaknesses in security.

• Simulate security breaches to test a system's relative security.

• Manage and update testing and validation infrastructure, vendors, and practices. Maintain documentation for testing practices and validation policy.

• Present your findings, risks and conclusions to management and other relevant parties.

• consider the impact your 'attack' will have on the business and its users.

• understand how the flaws that you identify could affect a business, or business function, if they're not fixed.

• Detect, analyse, and respond to cybersecurity events from various type of security tools.

• Identify and remediate infrastructure and application vulnerabilities identified in continuous scanning and regular penetration testing exercises and assist with risk prioritization.

Requirements

Core skills desired:

• Bachelor's/master’s in computer science or equivalent

• 5+ years of relevant Application Security Experience.

• Industry related certifications are preferred (E.g., CPENT, CISSP, GIAC, OSCP, etc.)

• Skilled in use of security analysis tooling such as BurpSuite/ZAP, Metasploit, Software Defined Radio tools, SAST, DAST, etc

• Solid understanding of OWASP Top 10, common classes of product security vulnerabilities and attack/defense methodologies.

• Many different fields of security research and prior experience will be considered, including:

• Web application and network penetration testing

• Cyber threat intelligence and proactive cyber threat hunting

• Digital forensics

• Malware reverse engineering

• Securing cloud infrastructure and applications

• Phishing and social engineering techniques, tools, and procedures

• Authentication and credential protocols and attack vectors

Who we are

Sustainability software specialist, AMCS, is headquartered in Ireland, with offices in Europe, the USA, and Australasia. With over 1,300 highly-skilled employees across 22 countries, we specialize in delivering technology solutions to facilitate a carbon neutral future.

What we do

Our innovative SaaS solutions increase efficiency and boost sustainability in resource-intensive industries. Over 5,000 customers across 23 countries already benefit from our Performance Sustainability software, ensuring we deliver practical solutions for improved profitability and environmental resilience across the globe.

Join us drive a more sustainable future and enjoy these benefits:

• Health insurance covering up to three dependents

• Employee shuttle service

• On-site food and free flowing coffee

• Allowances

• Comprehensive learning and development platform that provides on-the-job training on key skills with the ability to regularly self-assess and track your progress centrally

• 15 vacation leave and 15 sick leave