
Yolk Recruitment Limited
Penetration Tester
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
- 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.
- 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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Yolk Recruitment Limited
Cardiff County
IT
Skills & Technologies
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£80,000
This role
£55,000
UK median
This salary is 45% above the UK median for UK tech roles (£55,000/yr).
Based on 2024–2025 UK technology sector benchmarks