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Senior Security Researcher

ÂŁ95,000 - 95,000
XACT PLACEMENTS LIMITED
Trafalgar Square, South East London
ÂŁ95,000 - 95,000
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<50
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Company Type
Services
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Exp Level
Senior
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Job Type
Full-Time
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Language
English
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Visa sponsorship
No

Requirements

Must:
- 5 years of real-world offensive security or red teaming experience. - Deep understanding of how to compromise organizations without relying on public CVEs. - Ability to think like an attacker, working without fixed scopes or playbooks. - Scripting skills (Python, Go, etc.) to automate exploits, discovery, or tooling. - Industry certifications (CCSAS, CCT, CRT, OSCP, etc.) or equivalent battle scars from real-world hacking. - Self-driven, curious, and relentless—you don’t wait for permission to solve a problem.

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Responsibilities

- Spend your days doing what you love: hacking (professionally speaking) and discovering innovative, high-impact vulnerabilities across global enterprises. - Hunt for weaknesses that matter: such as RCE and weak SSL ciphers. - Collaborate with other seasoned offensive experts to invent new TTPs and attack modern infrastructure. - Research cutting-edge attack vectors across cloud, SaaS, web stacks, and internet-exposed infrastructure. - Partner with Red Team Engineers to scale and automate your discoveries so nothing gets wasted. - (Optional but encouraged) Present your research at industry conferences with full company support to make it happen.

Description


We are an elite cybersecurity scale-up, fully remote and operating globally. Our organization is a fast-scaling innovator in cybersecurity, backed by funding and recognized by Gartner. We are trusted by some of the world's biggest enterprises and critical infrastructure providers. Our technology helps security teams outrun real-world threats, and we seek offensive security experts who thrive on finding vulnerabilities where others can't. We offer competitive compensation because your skills are valued here. You will have a direct impact, as your discoveries will protect some of the world's largest enterprises. You will work with the best tools and technology, enabling you to do your best work. Our scale-up is in hypergrowth mode, with internal promotion integrated into our culture. You’ll collaborate with some of the sharpest offensive minds in the industry. This isn’t just another pentesting job—it's your chance to push boundaries, break things, and redefine what’s possible in offensive security while shaping the future of exposure management on a global scale. Interested? Let’s have a chat—roles like this don’t come around often!
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