Penetration Tester; Senior

Overview

Starling is the UK's first and leading digital bank on a mission to fix banking. We built a new kind of bank because technology can help people save, spend and manage their money in a new and transformative way. We are a fully licensed UK bank with the culture and spirit of a fast-moving, disruptive tech company. We employ more than 3,000 people across our London, Southampton, Cardiff and Manchester offices.

Our technologists are at the heart of Starling and work in a fast-paced environment focused on building, creating new things, and disruptive technology that keeps us on the cutting edge of fintech. We operate a flat structure to empower you to make decisions, with innovation and collaboration at the core. Our purpose is underpinned by five Starling values:
Listen, Keep It Simple, Do The Right Thing, Own It, and Aim For Greatness.

Hybrid Working

We have a hybrid approach to working here at Starling; our preference is that you are located within a commutable distance of one of our offices to enable in-person collaboration.

About The Role As an experienced Penetration Tester you will work with talented cybersecurity professionals to protect Starling customers, company assets and systems using the latest technologies and techniques.

The primary objective is to collaborate with, support, and guide Starling s engineering and operations functions to ensure our services are designed, developed and operated securely. As an experienced member of our penetration testing team you will directly interact with multiple areas of the business to understand requirements, define the scope and approach to testing (including undertaking appropriate research), and produce reporting information aligned to our risk framework.

You will support the continued advancement of our penetration testing through research, design and implementation of new solutions, including automation.

• Scoping and performing mobile, web application, cloud, and infrastructure penetration tests
• Automation of security testing, and development of internal tooling, to achieve continuous assurance
• Collaboration with engineering teams to facilitate secure development, including:
• Review and analysis of proposed technical solutions to identify appropriate security controls
• Input and guidance to security related technical architecture and design decisions
• Code review of features and critical security components
• Practical security testing
• Advising on remediation of security issues and processes to address root causes
• Security assurance reviews of third-party solutions
• Identifying and implementing improvements to the team s internal processes and procedures
• Review, analysis and reporting of external threats relevant to Starling systems and solutions, in the context of Starling s desired security posture

We re open-minded when it comes to hiring and we care more about aptitude and attitude than specific experience or qualifications.

Ideally, we would like:

• 5+ years technical information security experience
• Experience of mobile, web application, cloud and infrastructure penetration testing
• Strong technical knowledge in:
• Mobile security (iOS and Android)
• Web application security
• Networking and associated protocols
• Cloud security (AWS and GCP)
• Containers and Kubernetes
• A desire to learn, and ability to apply technical security knowledge to new and unfamiliar areas
• CREST, OSCP or similar industry penetration testing qualification
• A good understanding of applied cryptographic techniques
• Reverse engineering and exploit development capabilities
• Experience of security testing in an agile SDLC
• Threat modelling experience
• Experience performing code reviews, particularly in Java and Go
• Experience of fulfilling a client facing security consulting role
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience in automation of security testing, with previous development experience desirable

Interviewing is a two-way process and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you. Our interviews are conversational and we want to get the best from you, so come with questions and be curious. In general you can expect the below, following a chat with one of our Talent Team:

• First stage with the Penetration Testing Team Lead
• Second stage with additional members of the Penetration Testing team
• Final stage with Infosec Director and CISO

We have a Hybrid approach to working here at Starling; our preference is that you re located within a commutable distance of one of our offices to enable in-person collaboration. In Technology, we re asking that you attend the office a minimum of 1 day per week.

• 25 days holiday (plus take your public holiday allowance whenever works best for you)
• An extra day s holiday for your birthday
• Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off
• 16 hours paid volunteering time a year
• Salary sacrifice, company enhanced…