Security Testing Lead

Cyber Security Testing Lead

Milton Keynes, Hybrid (up to 2 days per week in the office)

Permanent offering up to £70 000 + Bonus Scheme

Shape the Future of Security Testing!

Are you an experienced cyber security professional who enjoys the technical side of penetration testing and vulnerability management, but wants to move beyond purely hands-on testing?

This is an opportunity to lead and mature a security testing capability across a complex and business-critical technology estate. You'll work at the intersection of security testing, vulnerability management, stakeholder engagement and governance—helping ensure that testing programmes are effective, scalable and aligned to evolving business risk.

Rather than spending your days conducting penetration tests yourself, you'll be the person defining what needs testing, engaging specialist testing providers, validating findings, driving remediation and helping embed security into projects and technology change initiatives.

This role would particularly suit someone coming from a Senior Penetration Tester, Security Testing, Application Security, Security Engineering or Vulnerability Management background who wants broader ownership and influence.

What You'll Be Doing

Own and evolve the organisation's security testing programme.

Scope, coordinate and oversee penetration testing across applications, infrastructure and cloud environments.

Manage relationships with specialist third-party penetration testing providers.

Review findings and work with technical teams to ensure effective remediation.

Validate remediation activities and provide technical challenge where required.

Help integrate security testing into the Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC).

Provide oversight of vulnerability assessment activities and scanning programmes.

Work closely with infrastructure, engineering, development and project teams.

Identify opportunities to expand and improve testing coverage across critical systems.

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