Penetration Testing Analyst

Penetration Testing Analyst

Location: Dublin
Type: Full-Time
Salary: €60,000 – €70,000

A well-established security function is adding a Penetration Testing Analyst to support ongoing application security testing across a broad portfolio of internal platforms. The role focuses primarily on hands-on testing.

This is a delivery-focused position within a structured environment, offering consistent testing work, good exposure to development teams, and room to deepen technical skill rather than spreading thin across consultancy-style engagements.

The Role

You’ll carry out manual application penetration testing across web applications, APIs, and supporting services. Day to day work includes executing tests, validating vulnerabilities, writing clear reports, and working directly with engineers to ensure issues are understood and resolved. You’ll also contribute to improving testing standards, tooling, and repeatable methodologies.

Primary Responsibilities

• Perform manual web application and API penetration testing

• Identify, validate, and exploit common and complex vulnerabilities

• Write clear, evidence-based reports with practical remediation guidance

• Retest fixes to confirm effective remediation

• Work with development teams to explain findings and risk

• Support vulnerability tracking and prioritisation

• Contribute to testing standards, templates, and internal knowledge sharing

• Stay current on application security techniques and emerging attack patterns

Skills & Experience

• 2–4 years of hands-on application penetration testing experience

• Strong understanding of OWASP Top 10 and OWASP testing methodologies

• Practical experience with tools such as Burp Suite, Nmap, and DAST scanners

• Ability to manually test authentication, authorisation, session handling, and input validation

• Basic scripting ability (Python, Bash) is an advantage

• Comfortable communicating findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Experience in regulated or enterprise environments is beneficial

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