Security Testing Specialist

CTG IT Solutions is currently looking for a Security Testing Specialist within the European Institutions in Luxembourg.

Your RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Analysis of documentation (both from the project and generated internally) and code and other
• information, also but not only with tools, preparation and execution of penetration testing, and
• analysis and assessment of the results.
• Participate in meetings as required, at the start of, end of, and eventually during the security testing
• process.
• Depending on the processes and procedures of the Contracting Authority, coordinate inside the
• team and with project and application teams, organising technical meetings to elicit information,
• escalating to the responsible team leader and/or the statutory staff responsible if necessary.
• Assess the findings, also during the process, alerting immediately the responsible team leader
• and/or the statutory staff directly responsible, when that may be necessary following the processes
• and procedures of the Contracting Authority.
• Prepare reports on the results of the technical security analysis and assessment, and communicate
• them to statutory staff responsible according to the processes and procedures foreseen by the
• Contracting Authority.
• Should the processes and procedures of the Contracting Authority foresee the possibility of other
• type of exercises with more reduce scope and/or as follow-up, do them and provide the necessary
• reporting.
• Report to the specifically assigned Team Leader and the statutory staff responsible on possible
• technical challenges, actual and future, for the work of the team, and contribute as and if needed
• to their analysis, and to proposals to address them.
• Provide as needed, required and possible, following its processes and procedures, relevant
• technical security input, also based on specific experience in the environment of the Contracting
• Authority, to activities like e.g. technical evolution and maintenance in operations of platform
• used for the security checks, DevSecOps.

Your Profile:

Education & Certifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and minimum 3 years of experience.
• Certification according to CEH, or equivalent certification.
• Very good knowledge of English (Level C1) or very good knowledge of French (Level C1). Knowledge
• of both languages, one at C1 level and the other at B2 level in any configuration, is required.

Technical expertise

• Good knowledge of security and vulnerability management practices, preferably including relevant framework, best practices and standards (e.g. NIST SP800, ISO 27001, OWASP, hardening guidelines).
• Good general ICT knowledge, e.g. networking, operating system, firewalls, web applications servers, programming and code quality tools, virtualisation, runtimes (it is not required to have practical experience of all of these elements).
• Good knowledge of vulnerability and security analysis tools and platforms (e.g. Nessus, Burp, Kali-Linux).
• Good knowledge of development practices and knowledge of secure coding.
• Understanding and at least basic knowledge of cloud services, and of the different types and configuration of “cloud” services and applications potentially involving or not “cloud”.
• Preferably understanding of good design principles for distributed architecture using services.

Professional experience

• Experience in implementation of security measures and/or security auditing.
• Experience as developer and/or in roles with technical security responsibilities.
• Experience in activities and environments requiring to work with sensitive information, with different information labels and handling rules.
• Experience in analysis and in redaction of documents for, and contacts with, technical and non-technical people (advantageous if in a context of security).
• Preferably, experience in multicultural and multinational environments and organisations with distributed responsibility and complex structures, eventually even EU institutions and bodies.

SOFT SKILLS:

• Capability to work in a structured and precise manner, but also to adapt and be flexible in the implementation of procedures and in process execution, and to understand dependencies and absence thereof, including technical and non-technical constraints.
• Capability to work as part of a team, collaborating and coordinating with others, but also in autonomy.
• Willingness to learn and re-learn continuously.
• Capability to reuse knowledge, experience and technical steps, and combine them in a different way for different scenarios.

Our Offer:

• An attractive salary package with or without a company car
• 5 additional vacation days each year
• A dedicated training program with personal development plans
• Extra-legal advantages (IT material, banks, ...)
• Regular events with the CTG team : learning lunchs, team buildings, fun events, Xmas, Marathons, ...

If you like multicultural teams and want to join a company with open communication, then apply right now !

Please note that a criminal record will be asked for this position.