Penetration Tester – Quant trading firm

Penetration Tester - Quant trading firm focuses on plan and conduct penetration tests across trading infrastructure, cloud platforms, apis, and business applications in windows and linux environments.

What the role involves

• Plan and conduct penetration tests across trading infrastructure, cloud platforms, APIs, and business applications in Windows and Linux environments.

Skills and requirements

• 5+ years of experience in penetration testing, red teaming, or security assurance, with hands-on exposure to complex, large-scale systems.
• Strong practical knowledge of offensive security across web applications, APIs, networks, and cloud environments.
• Solid understanding of system internals, networking, and common vulnerability classes including OWASP Top 10, authentication and authorisation flaws, logic issues, and race conditi.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent engagements.

Additional role context

• Style assessments and adversarial simulations to evaluate detection, response, and resilience capabilities.
• Design and execute testing strategies to validate controls across applications, infrastructure, and cloud environments.
• Coordinate external penetration testing engagements with third-party vendors, including scoping, execution oversight, findings validation, and remediation tracking.