Come and join our AMCS Cyber security team and be a part of a high-powered and high-performing team that regularly works across the entire organization, with everyone from product teams to executives. Urgent escalations from enterprise customers, investigating reported vulnerabilities, performing root cause analysis.Sustainability software specialist, AMCS, is headquartered in Ireland, with offices in Europe, USA, Canada and Australasia. With over 1,300 highly-skilled employees across 22 countries, we specialize in delivering technology solutions to facilitate a carbon neutral future.
What we do
Our innovative SaaS solutions increase efficiency and boost sustainability in resource-intensive industries. Over 5,000 customers across 23 countries already benefit from our Performance Sustainability software, ensuring we deliver practical solutions for improved profitability and environmental resilience across the globe.
Our people
AMCS offers team members more than just a job, but an opportunity to map out a career with a company that is growing, evolving and setting out new ways of working that are having a positive impact on the world around us. AMCS was established in Ireland and holds onto those local roots and ‘start-up’ mentality with a culture of connection. Connection to our work, our customers, our colleagues and our community that creates a working environment that fosters openness, collaboration and creativity.
About the role
The Penetration Tester produces clear, actionable reports, partners closely with IT and security teams to remediate risks, and communicates findings, impacts, and recommendations to both technical and business stakeholders. A strong understanding of modern attack vectors, OWASP Top 10, cloud security, and threat detection tools is essential, along with the ability to assess business impact and support incident response and risk prioritization efforts.
As a penetration tester, you'll need to:
Analyse IT (Information Technology) infrastructure, systems, and applications for susceptibility to various security exploits and threats. Recommend best practices to mitigate vulnerabilities and partner with IT colleagues to implement fixes. Develop and manage processes for validating and testing security policy, such as routine scans, application exploit tests, social engineering simulations, and network penetration testing.
Create reports based on findings, identify remediation steps, and disseminate them to stakeholders.
Perform in-depth analysis and testing on new systems, vendor connections, applications, and implemented vulnerability patches.
Carry out remote testing (reverse engineering) on AMCS network for testing of the infrastructure to expose weaknesses in security.
Simulate security breaches to test a system's relative security.
Manage and update testing and validation infrastructure, vendors, and practices. Maintain documentation for testing practices and validation policy.
Present your findings, risks and conclusions to management and other relevant parties.
consider the impact your 'attack' will have on the business and its users.
understand how the flaws that you identify could affect a business, or business function, if they're not fixed.
Detect, analyse, and respond to cybersecurity events from various type of security tools.
Identify and remediate infrastructure and application vulnerabilities identified in continuous scanning and regular penetration testing exercises and assist with risk prioritization.
Requirements
Core skills desired:
Bachelor's/master’s in computer science or equivalent
5+ years of relevant Application Security Experience.
Industry related certifications are preferred (E.g., CPENT, CISSP, GIAC, OSCP, etc.)
Skilled in use of security analysis tooling such as BurpSuite/ZAP, Metasploit, Software Defined Radio tools, SAST, DAST, etc
Solid understanding of OWASP Top 10, common classes of product security vulnerabilities and attack/defense methodologies.
Many different fields of security research and prior experience will be considered, including:
Web application and network penetration testing
Cyber threat intelligence and proactive cyber threat hunting
Digital forensics
Malware reverse engineering
Securing cloud infrastructure and applications
Phishing and social engineering techniques, tools, and procedures
Authentication and credential protocols and attack vectors
Join our mission for a sustainable future and enjoy these benefits:
Health insurance that covers up to three dependents
Allowances
Access to a comprehensive learning and development platform that provides on-the-job training on essential skills, with the ability to track your progress centrally
25 days of leave
Joining a world leader in environmental services
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