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About the Role
This role involves leading and delivering high-complexity, high-assurance security assessments, including penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, and source code reviews. The specialist will act as a subject matter expert, providing technical leadership and strategic recommendations to enhance security posture and resilience.
Responsibilities
- Lead and deliver high-complexity, high-assurance security assessments across customer’s systems, including advanced penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, and source code security reviews, focusing on real-world exploitability and attack path development.
- Provide authoritative technical leadership as a subject matter expert in security testing and secure development, acting as the primary escalation point for complex vulnerabilities, assessments, and adversary emulation activities.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of systems in protecting organisational data and maintaining intended functionality, and provide strategic recommendations to improve security posture and resilience.
- Identify and validate critical vulnerabilities, exploit paths, and attack vectors, including analysing scan outputs and manual testing results to assess risk and impact accurately.
- Translate technical findings into clear, actionable business risk insights, supporting informed decision making and prioritised remediation.
- Drive the evolution of security testing strategy, methodologies, and standards, ensuring alignment with industry best practices and continuous improvement across the function.
- Collaborate with the Security Testing – Senior Lead and broader cyber security teams to shape capability development, resourcing, and operational direction.
- Assess existing security controls and practices against expected standards and recommend improvements to address gaps and uplift security maturity.
- Ensure delivery of high-quality security assessment reports, clearly articulating risks, impacts and recommended mitigations.
- Provide mentorship and technical guidance to uplift capability across both senior and junior team members.
- Apply a pragmatic, risk-based approach to all activities, balancing security requirements with business objectives, timelines, and operational constraints.
- Fulfil Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) responsibilities in accordance with organisational policies and regulatory requirements.
- Provide technical leadership across the domain, including performing and leading complex assessments across multiple technical domains, and responding to escalated incidents and engagements.
- Provide input into customer’s Penetration Testing, Vulnerability Assessment and Secure Code processes, methodologies, standards, and corresponding roadmaps and enhancement plans.
- Develop and deliver training for junior team members and the broader customer community to uplift security capability.
- Promote “shift-left” practices to enable the delivery of secure, high-quality code at speed.
- Provide guidance on application security architecture and secure design considerations.
- Develop scripts and contribute to automation initiatives to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of security testing activities.
- Refine and define engagement processes, secure code artefacts, security criteria, and use cases.
- Collaborate with third parties, including vendors and newly acquired entities, to assess and uplift their security and development practices.
- Conduct quality assurance reviews of deliverables produced within the Secure Code team to ensure high technical standards.
- Operate effectively in environments with ambiguous or conflicting requirements, consistently delivering high-quality outcomes aligned with Cyber Security expectations.
- Translate technical vulnerabilities into business risk for stakeholders in a timely manner, leveraging insights from the broader Cyber Security function.
- Apply a pragmatic approach to security testing, balancing business objectives, standards alignment, cost, time, and risk considerations.
Requirements
- A minimum of 8 years’ experience in a Security Testing role.
- Experience and exposure to a variety of software delivery models, including DevOps and Waterfall.
- Significant experience in performing complex security assessments across a range of domain areas in a large corporate environment.
- Significant experience in implementing automated security assessment tools into CI/CD pipelines.
- Ability to review and provide guidance and feedback on security assessment reports.
- Experience in training and developing people.
- Demonstrable skillsets exceeding that expected of a person holding OSCE/OSCE or CREST – Certified qualifications for domain areas in scope for the position.
- Prior experience as a developer/software engineer is a significant advantage.
- Experience in developing security policy, standards, and security guidance.
- Significant experience in other domain areas of Cyber Security.
- Experience in managing engagements with external security vendors.
- Demonstrable history of developing exploits and zero-day discovery.
Skills
- Advanced penetration testing
- Vulnerability assessments
- Source code security reviews
- Security testing
- Secure development
- Adversary emulation
- Application security architecture
- Secure design
- Security Assessment tools
- Vulnerability Scanners
- Static Code Analysis
- Software Composition Analysis tools
- Transport security
- Authentication
- Authorization
- Threat modelling
- Logging and monitoring
- Exploit development
- Zero-day discovery
Location
- Australia
Work Type
- Contract
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Lead
- Senior
Education Level
- Tertiary qualifications in Electrical/Electronic, Computer, Network or Software Engineering; Information/Cyber Security; IT or a related discipline.
About the Company
- Urgent requirement of Security Testing Lead Specialist - Contract - Australia
Equal Opportunity
- Australian/NZ Citizens/PR Holders only