Senior Security Specialist / Penetration Tester

Senior Security Specialist / Penetration Tester – Investment Management

A globally renowned Investment Manager is making a rare Senior Cyber Security hire with excellent Penetration Testing experience into their UAE Head Office. They have opened an exceptionally rare opportunity to join the team responsible for identifying and securing their Web applications, APIs, cloud platforms and IT infrastructure.

This is an incredible opportunity for a Senior Penetration tester to take on more responsibility in a role covering Penetration Testing, Security architecture and DevSecOps Engineering. It is a great fit for someone who wants to stay hands-on while moving into broader security architecture, secure design and automation.

Your key responsibilities in this role will be:

• Advanced penetration testing across Web, APIs, Cloud and IT Infrastructure, including post-exploitation analysis, remediation validation and continuous improvement of testing methodologies.
• Contribute to secure architecture across cloud-native and on-premise environments, including threat modelling, zero trust controls, defence-in-depth design and security input into major system decisions.
• Embed security into engineering workflows by integrating SAST, DAST, SCA and IaC scanning into CI/CD pipelines, while developing scripts, tooling and automation to scale security testing and control validation.

In order to be successful In this role, you will need:

• (ESSENTIAL) 7+ years’ commercial Penetration testing experience covering Web, APIs, Cloud and Infrastructure.
• Experience working with Financial Services or Professional Services organisations
• Strong scripting / automation experience, ideally ideally Python, PowerShell or similar.
• Experience and keen interest in applying AI to cybersecurity workflows
• Relevant offensive security certifications such as OSCP, OSWE and CRTO.

If your experience is a strong match with the above, please apply with an up to date copy of your CV in the first instance