Security Engineer Vulnerability Management & VAPT

Role:

• We're looking for a hands-on security engineer to support the external attack surface management and crowdsourced security programmes.
• This role sits between offensive security and enterprise vulnerability management.
• You'll manually validate vulnerabilities affecting externally exposed applications and systems—including findings submitted by security researchers—and stay involved through risk assessment, remediation and retesting.
• If you enjoy understanding whether a vulnerability is genuinely exploitable rather than simply reviewing scanner results, this could be a strong fit.

Responsibilities:

• Investigate vulnerabilities affecting externally exposed applications, infrastructure and services.
• Manually reproduce reported vulnerabilities and determine their real-world exploitability.
• Perform vulnerability assessment and penetration testing using tools such as Burp Suite, Nmap, cURL or equivalent security tools.
• Conduct reconnaissance, service fingerprinting and hands-on web/application security testing.
• Prioritise vulnerabilities based on exploitability, exposure, severity and potential business impact.
• Validate findings submitted through crowdsourced security and vulnerability disclosure programmes.
• Work with application, infrastructure and security teams to explain findings and agree practical remediation actions.
• Track vulnerabilities through remediation and independently verify that fixes have resolved the issue.
• Monitor vulnerability trends, outstanding findings and remediation progress.

Required Skills:

• Relevant experience from areas such as vulnerability management, vulnerability assessment & penetration testing (VAPT), application security/appSec, penetration testing, offensive security, product security, and attack surface management.
• Security certifications such as OSCP, eJPT, CISSP, GSEC, Security+ or CEH are preferred.
• The key requirement is demonstrated experience personally investigating and validating security vulnerabilities.
• Hands-on vulnerability assessment and security testing and using tools such as Burp Suite, Nmap, cURL or comparable tools.
• Manually reproducing vulnerabilities and confirming whether reported issues are exploitable.
• Working with application and infrastructure teams to move vulnerabilities from identification through remediation and retesting.
• Experience testing web applications, APIs or externally exposed services will be particularly relevant.