Information Security Consultant
Location: Dublin 2. Type: Permanent. Salary: Negotiable. Reference# DH100134
DHRP are partnering a leading international consulting firm who currently have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Information Security Consultant to enhance their Technology & Forensics team. The ideal candidate will work on a series of dynamic and challenging projects serving a range of clients across industries such as financial services, energy, aviation and consumer goods.
Responsibilities:
- Involvement in a range of technical penetration testing engagements and will have the opportunity to actively identify security weaknesses in a wide range of web and mobile applications, devices and networks.
- Opportunities to work on a more diverse range of information security projects in areas such as risk analysis, design and architecture, secure application development, technical security assessment and privacy
- Work to tight deadlines while delivering high quality work
- Provide proactive and regular status updates and deliverables to the engagement manager
- Monitor and escalate engagement issues as they arise
Requirements:
- Hold a degree in a technical field such as computer science, mathematics, engineering or similar
- Have an understanding of web technologies such as client-server communications, HTTP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS and AJAX
- Have some experience (college projects or professional) in programming languages such as Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl, ASP or shell scripting
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong presentation and facilitation skills
- Highly professional with the ability to work in challenging, diverse and evolving client environments
- Self-motivated with lots of energy and drive
- Flexible, with the ability to learn quickly and leverage skills in new situations
- Strong team working skills
- Continuously build and master key technical, functional and professional skills
- Experience or Practical knowledge of penetration testing tools is advantageous
- Professional consultancy experience is desirable
- Professional programming or IT administration experience