Security Testing Lead Specialist - Contract - Australia

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Urgent requirement of Security Testing Lead Specialist - Contract - Australia

Requirements

Key Accountabilities

Include

• Lead and deliver high-complexity, high-assurance security assessments across customer’s systems, including advanced penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, and source code security reviews, focusing on real-world exploitability and attack path development.
• Provide authoritative technical leadership as a subject matter expert in security testing and secure development, acting as the primary escalation point for complex vulnerabilities, assessments, and adversary emulation activities.
• Evaluate the eƯ ectiveness of systems in protecting organisational data and maintaining intended functionality, and provide strategic recommendations to improve security posture and resilience.
• Identify and validate critical vulnerabilities, exploit paths, and attack vectors, including analysing scan outputs and manual testing results to assess risk and impact accurately.
• Translate technical findings into clear, actionable business risk insights, supporting informed decision making and prioritised remediation.
• Drive the evolution of security testing strategy, methodologies, and standards, ensuring alignment with industry best practices and continuous improvement across the function.
• Collaborate with the Security Testing – Senior Lead and broader cyber security teams to shape capability development, resourcing, and operational direction
• Assess existing security controls and practices against expected standards and recommend improvements to address gaps and uplift security maturity.
• Ensure delivery of high-quality security assessment reports, clearly articulating risks, impacts and recommended mitigations.
• Provide mentorship and technical guidance to uplift capability across both senior and junior team members.
• Apply a pragmatic, risk-based approach to all activities, balancing security requirements with business objectives, timelines, and operational constraints.
• Fulfil Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) responsibilities in accordance with organisational policies and regulatory requirements.

Additional information

• Provide technical leadership across the domain, including performing and leading complex assessments across multiple technical domains, and responding to escalated incidents and engagements.
• Provide input into customer’s Penetration Testing, Vulnerability Assessment and Secure Code processes, methodologies, standards, and corresponding roadmaps and enhancement plans
• Develop and deliver training for junior team members and the broader customer community to uplift security capability.
• Promote “shift-left” practices to enable the delivery of secure, high-quality code at speed.
• Provide guidance on application security architecture and secure design considerations.
• Develop scripts and contribute to automation initiatives to improve the eƯ iciency and eƯ ectiveness of security testing activities.
• Refine and define engagement processes, secure code artefacts, security criteria, and use cases.
• Collaborate with third parties, including vendors and newly acquired entities, to assess and uplift their security and development practices
• Conduct quality assurance reviews of deliverables produced within the Secure Code team to ensure high technical standards.
• Operate eƯ ectively in environments with ambiguous or conflicting requirements, consistently delivering high-quality outcomes aligned with Cyber Security expectations.
• Translate technical vulnerabilities into business risk for stakeholders in a timely manner, leveraging insights from the broader Cyber Security function. Confidential
• Apply a pragmatic approach to security testing, balancing business objectives, standards alignment, cost, time, and risk considerations.

Essential

• A minimum of 8 years’ experience in a Security Testing role.
• Experience and exposure to a variety of software delivery models, including DevOps and Waterfall.
• Significant experience in performing complex security assessments across a range of domain areas in a large corporate environment.
• Significant experience in implementing automated security assessment tools into CI/CD pipelines.
• Excellent working knowledge of Security Assessment tools, such as Vulnerability Scanners, Static Code Analysis and Software Composition Analysis tools.
• Ability to review and provide guidance and feedback on security assessment reports.
• Strong understanding of application security architecture principles, including transport security, authentication, authorisation, threat modelling, and logging and monitoring.
• Experience in training and developing people.
• Tertiary qualifications in Electrical/Electronic, Computer, Network or Software Engineering; Information/Cyber Security; IT or a related discipline.
• Demonstrable skillsets exceeding that expected of a person holding OSCE/OSWE or CREST – Certified qualifications for domain areas in scope for the position.

Highly Desirable

• Prior experience as a developer/software engineer is a significant advantage.
• Experience in developing security policy, standards, and security guidance.
• Significant experience in other domain areas of Cyber Security.
• A strong understanding of adjacent security dependencies including endpoint, application platforms, databases, network security technologies, and deployment frameworks.
• Current industry certification, including but not limited to:
• Offensive Security – OSCP, OSCE, OSWE
• CREST – Certified Level qualifications (CCT, CCSC, CCSAS, CCSAM)
• SANS – GPEN, GAWN, GWAPT, GXPN
• (ISC)² – CISSP, CCSP
• Experience in managing engagements with external security vendors.
• Demonstrable history of developing exploits and zero-day discovery.

*Duration: 06 Months*and possible extension

• Eligibility:* Australian/NZ Citizens/PR Holders only
• Email: jobs@hasthasolutions.com*

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