Yolk Recruitment

Yolk Recruitment

Cardiff, Wales

Penetration Tester

Full-Time£71,000 - 81,000 per yearanteayerUnited Kingdom
IT

Job Description

Salary: £71,000 - 81,000 per year

Requirements:
  • Commercial penetration testing experience
  • Experience in infrastructure and application security testing
  • Strong knowledge of attacker TTPs and offensive security methodologies
  • Experience in vulnerability assessment and security risk management
  • Experience working with or assessing OT, ICS, or industrial environments
  • Excellent technical reporting and stakeholder communication skills
Responsibilities:
  • Plan and deliver penetration testing across a diverse technology estate, including IT infrastructure, business applications, and Operational Technology
  • Deliver infrastructure, web application, and internal penetration testing
  • Assess Operational Technology and industrial environments using safe testing methodologies
  • Research new vulnerabilities, exploits, and attacker techniques
  • Identify weaknesses across people, processes, and technology, including social engineering and information leakage
  • Produce clear technical reports with practical remediation advice
  • Support vulnerability management and technical risk assessment
  • Manage external penetration testing providers where required
  • Work closely with technical teams, security, infrastructure, and engineering teams to improve resilience
  • Prioritise remediation, improve security controls, and provide expert guidance on emerging threats
Technologies:
  • Support
  • Security
  • Web

More:

We are a collaborative cyber security function based in South Wales offering a hybrid working model and a competitive package including a bonus, excellent pension, ongoing technical training and certification support, and long-term career progression. Our team values technical excellence, continuous learning, and innovation, and we provide exposure to enterprise-scale environments as well as Operational Technology and critical infrastructure. This role offers the opportunity to work on security challenges that make a real difference by helping protect systems underpinning critical services used by millions of people across the UK.

last updated 31 week of 2026

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About Yolk Recruitment

Yolk Recruitment

Yolk Recruitment

Cardiff

IT

Skills & Technologies

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£76,000

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£55,000

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This salary is 38% above the UK median for UK tech roles55,000/yr).

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