About this role
<p>At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence. </p> <p> </p> <p>We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. </p> <p> </p> <p>Join EY and help to build a better working world.</p><p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong><span style="line-height:115%">What’s in it for you? </span></strong></span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Our EY Advanced Security Centre (ASC) is a well-established, dedicated and vibrant offensive security team. Our vision is to build and bring the strongest, most diverse and highly skilled team to the market. We strive to be the market leaders in security testing services, ready to tackle any challenge that comes our way.</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">We are looking for people looking to kick-start their career in offensive security or people looking to tackle some of the biggest challenges our clients are facing in the market. There is flexibility to be based in either Sydney or Melbourne.</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The ASC provides the following services to our clients:</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"> </p> <ul style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm" type="disc"> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Web, Web services, mobile and thick client penetration testing</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Internal/External network penetration testing</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Red Team/Purple Team assessments</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Social Engineering assessments</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Application Security Consulting and Secure Code Review</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Cloud security assessments</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Wireless assessments</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Security configuration reviews</span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong><span style="line-height:115%">What we’re looking for</span></strong></span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Here’s our ‘wish list’ but don’t worry if you don’t tick all the boxes. We’re interested in your strengths, what you want to learn, and how far you want to go.</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"> </p> <ul style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm" type="disc"> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">For Senior Consultants, a minimum of 3+ years cybersecurity experience, with a majority being offensive security related (e.g. penetration testing or application security experience), beyond the use of automated tools. Show us that you know what’s happening behind the tooling.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">For Consultants with less than 3 years’ experience, show us what you already know, how you’ve been learning – show us that you will continue to develop on the job!</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Strong project management and interpersonal skills.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">A commitment to build and grow your technical cybersecurity career to the next level.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Experience in web and mobile application security testing and specialisation in one other domain would be favourable (thick application, red team/purple team or internal/external network) </span></li> <ul style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm" type="circle"> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Demonstrable proficiency of at least 2 following security assessment methodologies: </span></li> <ul style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm" type="square"> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Web, Web services, mobile and thick client penetration testing</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Internal/External network penetration testing</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Application Security consulting and secure code review</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Wireless assessments</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Social engineering/red team assessments</span></li> </ul> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Demonstrable technical understanding or certifications of at least 2 of following domains: </span></li> <ul style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm" type="square"> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Common web technologies and frameworks </span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Application architecture</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Cloud experience</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Networking and Network protocols</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">DevOps methodology and pipelines</span></li> </ul> </ul> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Relevant (or be willing and able to pursue) professional certifications such as OSCP, SANS, CREST, PJPT, PNPT, PWPT, PJWT, CPTS, etc.</span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Our roles can be adjusted to work flexibly with the potential of reduced hours to balance your time between the home and office. Please speak with us about potential options.</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong><span style="line-height:115%">What we can offer you</span></strong></span></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">At EY, we’ll fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. We’re proud to be recognised as the #1 WORK180 Endorsed Employer in the Top 101 Employers for Women 2026. 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