Security Tester - SC Cleared

Security Tester - SC Cleared

Rate: £380 a day

Duration: 6 Months +

Location: Leeds - Hybrid 2 days per week on a Tuesday & Thursday

Clearance: SC Clearance required

You will join a global IT Consultancy who are bringing digital transformation the Health Service.

You will join current test team to support CIS1, CIS2, & DSS. This also includes being part of the Cyber resilience that is happening within IAM.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Strong capability to identify security gaps across systems and processes.
• Experience creating and applying risk models.
• Ability to develop and execute a comprehensive cyber security test strategy.
• Strong understanding of Azure security risks, especially related to Azure Storage.
• Knowledge of immutable backups and secure data retention strategies.
• Experience with disaster recovery planning, including full restore testing.
• Expertise in multi-factor authentication (MFA) setup and testing.
• Vulnerability management - scanning, prioritization, remediation validation.
• Ability to design and interpret security dashboards for monitoring and reporting
• Awareness of system throttling and its security implications.
• Ideally comfortable upskilling the rest of the team so we can cover basic Cybersecurity testing

Essential Industry and Competencies

• Previous experience with manual testing (systems, APIs, and applications)
• Languages: JavaScript and Python
• Tools: Confluence, Jenkins, Jira, Splunk
• Knowledge of authentication mechanisms (OAuth, SAML, JWT, etc.).
• Experience working in healthcare