Offensive Security Engineer

The Ministry of Justice (Digital and Technology) are seeking an Offensive Security Engineer to join them at 102 Petty France, London.

Team: Offensive Security Engineer

Initial contracts will run for 6 months with the strong possibility of extension and offer a rate up to £600/day.

IR35 STATUS: Outside IR35. This engagement has been assessed by the public body as Outside IR35 legislation.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 25/02/2019 at 12:30

Main Responsibilities

• Supporting in ensuring Information Risks are captured and managed.
• Ensuring Accreditation Plans and Risk Register actions are assigned to appropriate individuals.
• Responsible for ensuring all appropriate Information Security Policies and procedures are documented, verified and validated.
• Involvement in logging and escalation of Risk Balance Cases.
• Regularly liaising with stake holder groups and accreditor to ensure all programmes are on track.
• Recommends responses to audit findings in order to verify on-going conformance to security requirements, identifying trends and weaknesses.
• Assists with compliance audits and recommends responses to findings.
• Supporting the verification and validation process underpinning Information Assurance.
• Ensuring Projects/Programmes are aware at an early stage of the need to incorporate Risk Management into their work streams.
• Identifies systemic trends and weaknesses and undertakes preliminary or fact-finding enquiries into security incidents.
• Assists in the monitoring of risk treatment controls and reports on their effectiveness.

Required Qualifications

• CREST web application Tester
• OSCP
• GPEN
• GWAPT
• GXPN
• SC Clearance would be ideal

If invited to interview, it will be face to face with penetration test.

Candidate Eligibility

Candidates must be eligible to work in the UK, this role will not offer Visa sponsorship. Tier 2 – General visas are cannot be accepted. This role requires that candidates be willing to undergo BPSS (DS) Baseline Personnel Security Standard (with a Disclosure Scotland).

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