At a Glance
- Tasks: Uncover cyber vulnerabilities through ethical hacking and penetration testing.
- Company: Join Capital One's Cyber Operations team in a dynamic environment.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, health benefits, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Collaborative culture with excellent career advancement opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on security while working with cutting-edge technology.
- Qualifications: Experience in penetration testing and strong knowledge of security frameworks.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Overview
Capital One Offensive Security reduces cyber risk by uncovering vulnerabilities and weaknesses in the enterprise cyber environment through coordinated ethical hacking and penetration testing scenarios.
This role plans, coordinates, executes and reports on sophisticated ethical hacking exercises to identify cyber vulnerabilities and reduce the risk posture of enterprise systems.
The successful candidate will perform application and network security assessments and make recommendations to management on effective countermeasures.
The team works within the Cyber Operations and Intelligence program to enhance Capital One's information security posture against a broad range of threats.
This position is located in London or Nottingham.
- What you’ll do
- Perform penetration testing of APIs, web applications, networks, cloud services, and related applications and infrastructure.
- Assess Capital One's development practices and help drive corporate security standards.
- Triage and test application responsible disclosure findings and newly disclosed vulnerabilities.
- Collaborate with developers to improve the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) for applications.
- Present findings, risks and conclusions to technical and non‑technical audiences.
- Collaborate with the business throughout remediation, influencing stakeholders and delivery teams on prioritization of security activities and issue remediation.
- Establish effective relationships across the Global Cyber organization, technology departments, and the UK business.
Qualifications
- Information security experience in red teaming, penetration testing, application security, or network security.
- Strong knowledge of Web, API and mobile application security testing frameworks and methodologies.
- Familiarity with penetration testing tools such as Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP, Soap UI, etc.
- Strong knowledge of application security best practices including OWASP Top 10.
- Understanding of networking concepts, Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems, cloud and web application vulnerabilities and exploitation.
- Experience with threat modeling concepts and frameworks (CVSS, MITRE ATT&CK, DREAD, or STRIDE).
- Technical knowledge in software engineering, system and network security, authentication and security protocols, cryptography, and network/web related protocols (TCP, UDP, HTTP, HTTPS).
- Cloud experience (AWS preferred; others such as Azure or GCP considered).
- Ability to code in one or more interpreted languages (e. g., Python, Bash, Power Shell, Perl, Ruby) and one or more compiled languages (e. g., C, C++, C#, Golang, Java, Rust).
- Penetration testing experience with Io T devices, mobile applications, or code review is advantageous.
- One or more certifications (OSCP, OSCE, GPEN, GXPN, CRTO, CREST Certified Simulated Attack Manager) is desirable.
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