Penetration Tester (Security Analyst)
Posted on 2025-04-09
| Employer | Datafin |
|---|---|
| Salary | 0 |
| Category | It Computer |
| Location | Gauteng / Johannesburg |
Job Summary
Johannesburg – Gauteng – South Africa
Duties:
- Work as part of a vulnerability assessment and /or penetration testing team, taking direction from line managers and executing directives in a thorough and timely fashion
- Conduct vulnerability assessments on a wide variety of technologies and implementations utilising both automated tools and manual techniques
- Conduct network penetration tests
- Conduct application penetration tests (web and thick client)
- Conduct wireless and mobile security assessments
- Conduct social engineering assessments
- Conduct physical security assessments
- Effectively communicate successes and obstacles with fellow team members and line managers
- Interface with client contact(s) and staff in a constructive and professional manner
- Develop subject matter expertise in topics to include network, database, wireless and application security assessments and adversarial network operations
- Utilise common vulnerability assessment and penetration testing tools
Duties:
- Working as part of a Red Team and assisting with the following duties (but not limited to):
- Initial reconnaissance open-source intelligence (OSINT) for collecting information on the targets
- Initial compromise gaining a foothold into the target environment through targeting weaknesses in people, process and / or technology.
- Deploy command-and-control servers (C&C or C2) and custom payloads to establish communication / persistence in the targets network.
- Develop tools, techniques and procedures to evade detection by blue team (including the development of custom payloads)
- Escalate privileges and maintain persistence
- Exfiltrate and / or complete objectives
- Research new vulnerabilities with a focus on high-profile products
- Understand the terminology and tactics employed by threat actors Research new attack methods
Penetration Tester (Security Analyst) position available in Gauteng, Johannesburg. This job position was posted by Datafin. The job has been posted as a premium ad on 2025-04-09 at 16:09:55 in the It Computer category
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