Saturday, June 4, 2016

Opening for Senior Information Security Specialist with Halian

Job description

Halian International, a global IT services business, is currently seeking a Senior Information Security Specialist (Security Testing – Mobile & Web Application), with a comprehensive working knowledge of working within the Information Security industry. Based out of Dubai, UAE, this will be a permanent role working for one of the country’s most exciting technology focused government entities.

As Senior Information Security Specialist, you will be performing security testing for applications (web/mobile) security functionality and resiliency from attacks. You will also conduct and/or support authorized internal/external penetration testing and vulnerability assessment on network/infrastructure assets.

You will also perform technical (evaluation of technology) and non-technical (evaluation of people and operations) risk and vulnerability assessments of relevant technology focus areas (e.g., local computing environment, network and infrastructure, and supporting infrastructure). You will prepare audit/assessment reports that identify technical and procedural findings, and provide recommended remediation strategies/solutions

To be considered for this outstanding opportunity, we are seeking a Senior Information Security Specialist must possess the following skills and experience;

• Minimum 5+ years’ experience in Web and Mobile application security testing.
• Knowledge of system and application security threats and vulnerabilities (e.g., buffer overflow, mobile code, cross-site scripting, Procedural Language/Structured Query Language [PL/SQL] and injections, race conditions, covert channel, replay, return-oriented attacks, malicious code).
• Knowledge of penetration testing principles, tools, and techniques (e.g., metasploit, neosploit)
• Knowledge of system and application security threats and vulnerabilities
• Skill in designing countermeasures to identified security risks
• Skill in performing packet-level analysis using appropriate tools (e.g., Wireshark, tcpdump)
 • Skill in the use of penetration testing tools and techniques
• Skill in using network analysis tools to identify vulnerabilities Minimum 5+ years’ experience working in a large-scale IT environment with focus on Information Security.
• Skill in conducting vulnerability scans and recognizing vulnerabilities in applications and systems.
• Ability to identify systemic security issues based on the analysis of vulnerability and configuration data

 This position requires the very best the market as to offer, so please only apply if you believe you have the capabilities to fulfill this role.

 For further information on this role and to apply to this vacancy, please send your CV to david.tomas@halian.com

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