Senior Penetration Tester

Role Overview:
Seeking an experienced Senior Security Testing / Penetration Tester to lead complex security assessments across enterprise environments, with strong expertise in penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, secure code review, exploit development, and application security.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead complex penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, secure code reviews, and adversary emulation, focusing on real-world exploitability and attack paths.Act as a Security Testing SME, providing technical leadership, escalation support, and guidance across complex vulnerabilities and security assessments.Identify, validate, and exploit critical vulnerabilities and attack vectors, translating technical findings into actionable business risk and remediation.Drive security testing methodologies, standards, automation, and shift-left security, including integration of security tools into CI/CD pipelines.Provide technical mentorship, training, quality assurance, and security architecture guidance across security testing and secure development teams.
Required Skills & Experience:
8+ years of experience in Security Testing, Penetration Testing, or Cyber Security.Strong experience across DevOps, Waterfall, CI/CD, vulnerability scanners, SAST, and Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tools.Strong knowledge of application security architecture, transport security, authentication, authorisation, threat modelling, logging, and monitoring.Demonstrated experience with exploit development, zero-day discovery, manual security testing, and attack path analysis.Relevant tertiary qualification in Cyber Security, Computer Science, Software/Network Engineering, or related discipline.OSCP/OSCE/OSWE, CREST, GIAC, CISSP/CCSP or equivalent certifications highly desirable.Prior software development/engineering experience and experience managing external security vendors are advantageous.
Please drop your CV to Veni@kaizenglobaltechnologies.com.