Cyber Security Penetration Testing Manager

Location: Newbury (Blended home working)
Salary: Competitive + Vodafone Benefits
Hours: Full time (37.5 hours per week – Mon to Fri)

Vodafone UK’s blended working approach means you’ll come to your contracted hub location office as and when needed to get things done for your role and for tasks that require it, otherwise you will be able to work from home. Our ‘Office in a Box’ home-working kit will be available for all who need it during your onboarding journey.

Vodafone UK Cyber Security is an intelligence-driven, proactive team, working collaboratively with the business to assess cyber threats and drive risk-based decisions.
We offer a unique combination of highly resilient networks, enterprise-class cloud platforms, advanced security systems and expert advice, helping limit the risks of a mobile workforce, such as commercial losses, regulatory breaches or threats to individuals, whilst enabling productivity and employee satisfaction.

What will you be doing?

As the Penetration Testing Manager, you will carry out the Penetration Testing as part of the Secure by Design assessments and provide guidance to projects and BAU activities across the following UK business functions:

• Consumer, Business & Enterprise: Your focus will be to lead the Penetration Testing and Coordination activities to our customers across Enterprise, Consumer & Business markets, as defined by Vodafone UK’s Consumer & Business functions.
• Internal: Your focus will be to ensure we conduct Penetration Testing to support Vodafone UK’s internal business functions. These internal business functions include Technology, Finance, HR, Corporate & External Affairs and Business Intelligence.

You will work with the Secure by Design Managers and Specialists to outline the scope of Penetration testing as required for the project and then engage with the business functions to co-ordinate the Pen Test and then deliver the detailed report to the SbD manager and the project with the findings and the CVSS score.

You will work with project teams to produce solutions that comply with internal security policies, standards and the security architecture. The role requires a recent hands-on background with a wide range of security and IT / Digital & Networks technologies.

Who are we looking for?

This role would best suit a proactive individual with proven line management and IT security experience/skills such as;

• Penetration testing skills at infrastructure and application layers and keeps knowledge up to date
• Good understanding of common security standards and regulatory compliance
• Competent in applying security policies and principles defined in security architecture to real world scenarios
• Understands and applies risk management principles
• Establishing and maintaining single point of contact relationship with key project manager(s)

What’s in it for you?

An excellent remuneration and bonus package with 28 days holiday entitlement, in addition to bank holidays and paid leave for charity projects. We offer an extensive benefits package that can be tailored to suit you and your family, including employee discounts, retail vouchers, pension plan and share schemes. We’re also proud to provide a Reconnect programme with flexibility to support individuals returning to work after a career break and our market-leading parental leave policies. We’re committed to supporting you throughout every step of your career at Vodafone.

Together we can

Vodafone UK are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and all offers of employment for this role are subject to background checks, including criminal (DBS) and financial checks to meet the regulators standards.

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