Senior Technical Security Consultant

Job Description

If you love securing things, breaking (into) stuff, investigating what happened, taking a client by the hand, and have fluent English skills, we at WithSecure Consulting want to work with you!

For a person who's into providing high quality technical security services such as application security assessments, penetration testing and security architecture design, we can offer an environment filled with like-minded people. Whether you're into offense or defense, rest assured, we are an equal opportunity employer.

Key responsibilities:

• Performing high-end security testing (including penetration testing, vulnerability assessments and configuration reviews)
• Advising clients on complex security issues both verbally and in a written form
• Supporting clients' developers and product management on security requirements, threat modelling and privacy engineering
• Be an upstanding colleague!

What are we looking for:

To be good at what you do, you most likely have a minimum of 5 years of Security Consulting experience with in-depth expertise in some of these:

• Penetration testing, application security assessments, security code reviews
• Experience in modern software development or SRE (site reliability engineering), including things like CI/CD pipelines
• Strong UNIX, Linux, Windows and/or network security skills
• Cloud native and microservice architecture (e.g., using Kubernetes)
• Cloud services (IaaS on AWS/GCP/Azure, SaaS such as M365)

Who you are:

• You are a motivated self-starter, with a high capacity for rapid learning
• You have a positive can-do attitude to thrive in a fast-paced, high-performance team
• You have a strong ethical compass
• You have strong communication skills both in written and verbal English

Bonus points:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Electronics, or similar, or equivalent life experience or training
• Understanding GDPR and compliance frameworks (great skill for any hacker to have)
• Also, we would not want to waste any electronics or RF hacking skills you have
• Flexibility to travel every now and then, time travelers preferred
• Certifications such as CISSP, CISA, GIAC, OSCP, OSEP or OSWE

What you will get from us:

• A competitive compensation package along with extra benefits to further strengthen your career and interests goes without saying
• 1 to 1 coaching and tutorship sessions led by seasoned and well-respected industry-leading security professionals
• Access to our state-of-the-art bespoke training platform
• Classroom-based learning sessions and opportunity to attend external training courses and security conferences
• Opportunities to push the industry forward through research using our blogs, talks, white papers and by competing at industry events

As part of the WithSecure Consulting team you will be working with some of the best technical security people in the world with a wide variety of passions and skills. We've been working years to acquire and retain highly skilled individuals. If you like helping people to secure their systems and challenge conventional wisdom, WithSecure Consulting has got your back.

See yourself here? Bring your best self and apply now!

A security background check will be conducted for the selected candidate, in accordance with the Finnish Security Clearance act 726/2014.