Penetration Tester in Southampton

Starling is the UK's first and leading digital bank on a mission to fix banking. We built a new kind of bank because we knew technology had the power to help people save, spend and manage their money in a new and transformative way. We're a fully licensed UK bank with the culture and spirit of a fast-moving, disruptive tech company. Our technologists are at the very heart of Starling and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment that is all about building things, creating new stuff, and disruptive technology that keeps us on the cutting edge of fintech.

As an experienced Penetration Tester you will be working with talented cyber security professionals to protect Starling customers, company assets and systems using the latest technologies and techniques. The primary objective for this role is to collaborate with, support, and guide Starling's engineering and operation functions to ensure our services are designed, developed and operated securely.

Responsibilities:

• Scoping and performing mobile, web application, cloud, and infrastructure penetration tests.
• Automation of security testing, and development of internal tooling, to achieve continuous assurance.
• Collaboration with engineering teams to facilitate secure development.
• Review and analysis of proposed technical solutions to identify appropriate security controls.
• Input and guidance to security related technical architecture and design decisions.
• Code review of features and critical security components.
• Practical security testing.
• Advising on remediation of security issues and processes to address root causes.
• Security assurance reviews of third-party solutions.
• Identifying and implementing improvements to the team's internal processes and procedures.
• Review, analysis and reporting of external threats relevant to Starling systems and solutions.

Requirements:

• 5+ years technical information security experience.
• Experience of mobile, web application, cloud and infrastructure penetration testing.
• Strong technical knowledge in mobile security (iOS and Android), web application security, networking and associated protocols, cloud security (AWS and GCP), containers and Kubernetes.
• A desire to learn, and ability to apply technical security knowledge to new and unfamiliar areas.
• CREST, OSCP or similar industry penetration testing qualification.
• A good understanding of applied cryptographic techniques.
• Reverse engineering and exploit development capabilities.
• Experience of security testing in an agile SDLC.
• Threat modelling experience.
• Experience performing code reviews, particularly in Java and Go.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience in automation of security testing, with previous development experience desirable.

Interview process:

Interviewing is a two way process and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you. Our interviews are conversational and we want to get the best from you, so come with questions and be curious.

Benefits:

• 25 days holiday (plus take your public holiday allowance whenever works best for you).
• An extra day’s holiday for your birthday.
• Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off.
• 16 hours paid volunteering time a year.
• Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme.
• Life insurance at 4x your salary & group income protection.
• Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care.
• Generous family-friendly policies.
• Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks.

Starling is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity & inclusion in the workplace.