Security Tester

Security Tester - Onsite in Leeds on Tuesday & Thursday and home based on the other days
£350-£400 per day (inside IR35) - 9 months+

All applicants must hold an active SC clearance.

My client is a global leading IT consultancy. They are on the hunt for an SC Cleared Security Tester to join the current test team.

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, prioritisation, 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

Desired Industry and Competencies

• Knowledge of authentication mechanisms (OAuth, SAML, JWT, etc.).
• Experience working in healthcare

Security Tester - Onsite in Leeds on Tuesday & Thursday and home based on the other days
£350-£400 per day (inside IR35) - 9 months+

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