Role Overview

We are looking for a skilled Cybersecurity Specialist to assess, monitor, and strengthen the security of our existing candidate assessment platforms, onboarding systems, and associated digital tools. The role will focus on identifying security vulnerabilities, evaluating potential risks, conducting authorized penetration testing, and recommending effective mitigation measures to protect candidate data, organizational information, and system integrity.

The ideal candidate will have a strong hands-on background in cybersecurity, ethical hacking, application security, and vulnerability assessment, with the ability to proactively identify security gaps and work with internal IT, development to implement corrective actions.

Key Responsibilities

- Security Assessment: Evaluate existing online assessment platforms, candidate onboarding tools, HR systems, and related applications to identify security vulnerabilities and potential threats.
- Ethical Hacking & Penetration Testing: Conduct authorized security testing, including web application penetration testing, API testing, authentication testing, and session management assessments.
- Vulnerability Management: Identify, document, prioritize, and track vulnerabilities based on severity, business impact, and exploitation risk.
- Risk Mitigation: Recommend and coordinate the implementation of security controls to address identified vulnerabilities and minimize security exposure.
- Application & Data Security: Assess risks associated with candidate personal information, assessment results, identity verification, document uploads, access permissions, and data storage or transmission.
- Access Control & Identity Management: Review role-based access controls, administrator privileges, vendor access, authentication mechanisms, and authorization workflows.
- Security Monitoring: Review available application logs, access logs, suspicious activities, and security alerts to identify potential misuse or unauthorized access.




- Third-Party Risk Assessment: Evaluate the security posture of assessment and onboarding technology vendors, including their security controls, data handling practices, and vulnerability management processes.
- Security Configuration Review: Assess application configurations, APIs, integrations, cloud environments, encryption practices, and other relevant security controls.
- Incident Response Support: Investigate reported security issues, support incident containment and root-cause analysis, and recommend preventive measures.
- Compliance & Documentation: Maintain vulnerability assessment reports, risk registers, remediation trackers, security recommendations, and evidence of closure.
- Continuous Improvement: Establish periodic security reviews and recommend improvements to strengthen the security of existing platforms and future technology implementations.

Required Skills & Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or a related discipline.
- 4–8 years of hands-on experience in cybersecurity, ethical hacking, application security, or penetration testing.
- Practical experience conducting web application and API security assessments.
- Strong understanding of the OWASP Top 10, OWASP API Security Top 10, common attack vectors, and secure application design.
- Experience with tools such as Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP, Nmap, Nessus, OpenVAS, or equivalent security testing tools.
- Knowledge of authentication, authorization, session management, access control, encryption, and secure data transmission.
- Experience identifying vulnerabilities such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), broken access control, insecure APIs, and security misconfigurations.
- Understanding of vulnerability scoring and prioritization frameworks such as CVSS.
- Ability to translate technical findings into actionable remediation plans for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Solid analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and stakeholder coordination skills.

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