The Role
This is an exciting opportunity for a penetration tester to join a rapidly-growing start-up cyber security consultancy. The chosen candidate will be working with a team of experts who provide services to senior members within the financial services industry.
Ideally, the candidate should be an ambitious recent graduate with a minimum of 1-2 years’ experience in penetration testing delivery and should show a willingness to learn in a fast-paced and challenging work environment.
Key Skills and Experience
Confidently install and run virtualisation software’s
Good understanding of penetration tools
Knowledge of coding languages, for example, C++
Effective oral/written communication
Good awareness of mobile and technologies vulnerabilities
Understanding of Kali Linux
Ability to adapt and adjust rapidly changing priorities whilst maintaining efficiency
Good organisational skills, self-motivated
Analytical judgment and decision-making skills
Desirable
Penetration testing experience in financial services industry
Red team expertise
STEM degree preferable
About Rutherford
Rutherford is a boutique search firm located in London. Our consultants are the executive specialists in compliance recruitment, and also in financial crime, legal and cyber security, all within the financial and professional services sectors in the United Kingdom and New York. We use our carefully curated relationships, networks and market knowledge to find the best fit for the clients in hand. We work with a wide range of clients, spanning from advisors, management consultants, corporate and commercial banks, brokers, exchanges, MTFs and financial tech, through to global investment managers, hedge funds, private equity firms, investment banks and technology firms. We began as a compliance recruitment firm in London and expanded to offer new resourcing expertise across legal and cyber recruitment. We have been a leading legal and compliance search agency in London for a decade and are excited about bringing our expanded offering into the technology area.
Remote Working
We are currently looking for regionally-located Cyber Security professionals from the following areas who would be interested in working for London firms on an interim WFH basis: Kent, East Sussex, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Surrey or Hampshire.
We are also interested in hearing from candidates in Manchester, Birmingham, Oxford, Winchester and Salisbury.