Yolk Recruitment Limited

Yolk Recruitment Limited

Cardiff County, Wales

Penetration Tester

Full-Time£80,000 - 80,000 per yearأمسUnited Kingdom
IT

Job Description

Salary: £80,000 - 80,000 per year

Requirements:
  • We ideally have experience in several of the following:
  • Commercial penetration testing experience
  • Infrastructure and application security testing
  • Strong knowledge of attacker TTPs and offensive security methodologies
  • Vulnerability assessment and security risk management
  • Experience working with or assessing OT, ICS or industrial environments
  • Excellent technical reporting and stakeholder communication skills
Responsibilities:
  • We plan and deliver penetration testing across a diverse technology estate, including traditional IT infrastructure, business applications and Operational Technology.
  • We deliver infrastructure, web application and internal penetration testing.
  • We assess Operational Technology and industrial environments using safe testing methodologies.
  • We research new vulnerabilities, exploits and attacker techniques.
  • We identify weaknesses across people, processes and technology, including social engineering and information leakage.
  • We produce clear technical reports with practical remediation advice.
  • We support vulnerability management and technical risk assessment.
  • We manage external penetration testing providers where required.
  • We work closely with security, infrastructure and engineering teams to improve resilience.
  • We prioritise remediation, improve security controls and provide expert guidance on emerging threats.
Technologies:
  • Support
  • Security
  • Web

More:

We are an established cyber security function offering a varied technical role with exposure to modern enterprise environments as well as industrial control systems and critical infrastructure. The role is hybrid based in South Wales and comes with a competitive salary, annual bonus, excellent pension, ongoing technical training and certification support, and long-term career progression within a growing cyber security team. We value technical excellence, continuous learning and innovation, and we offer the chance to make a genuine impact by protecting systems that underpin critical services used by millions of people across the UK.

last updated 31 week of 2026

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About Yolk Recruitment Limited

Yolk Recruitment Limited

Yolk Recruitment Limited

Cardiff County

IT

Skills & Technologies

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£80,000

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£55,000

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