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Ethical Hacking Expert

Aggregate function:  Shared Services
Business Area:  Technology _VOIS
Posting Country:  Romania
Date Posted:  18 Jul 2025
Full Time / Part Time:  Full Time
Contract Type:  Permanent

At Vodafone, we’re working hard to build a better future. A more connected, inclusive and sustainable world. As a dynamic global community, it's our human spirit, together with technology, that empowers us to achieve this. 

We challenge and innovate in order to connect people, businesses, and communities across the world. Delighting our customers and earning their loyalty drive us, and we experiment, learn fast and get it done, together.

With us, you can be truly be yourself and belong, share inspiration, embrace new opportunities, thrive, and make a real difference.

Join Us

Join us and help enhance Vodafone's security by conducting deliberate and controlled attacks, mirroring the methods employed by potential attackers. 

This position carries the responsibility of designing and ensuring the efficacy of security tests, as well as evaluating current security solutions in line with Vodafone's standards. 

The role involves collaborative work with testers and managers to define the scope of penetration testing, engaging with business functions for coordinated execution, and delivering comprehensive reports.

Responsibilities

You will be executing security tests, using various MITRE tactics and techniques to uncover weaknesses and ensure the highest standards of cyber protection across the Vodafone group.  

You must also keep in touch with new technologies and methodologies and maintain accurate knowledge of information security issues to create a safer digital environment. 

  

You will be responsible for developing and maintaining comprehensive security testing plans, leading the execution of specialized engagements, defining testing prerequisites, managing client needs, and providing recommendations to address any identified issues.  

Deliverables

You will make sure that security testing needs are clearly defined and executed, followed by detailed reports on any defects found and provide support to project and technical specialists to scope the tests and identify proper remediation solutions. 

Additionally, you will:

  • Deliver high-quality technical reports that outline both the technical and business risks associated with any vulnerabilities identified

 

  • Include clearly defined steps for replicating exploits and practical strategies for remediation. 

 

  • Provide retesting scripts and assistance with remediation solutions

 

  • Develop solutions and code for automating security testing, document test cases, and coordinate and assist international teams through consultancy activities and management of specific IT project situations.

Required Proficiency

  • 4+ experience in Penetration Testing and in coordinating/leading teams 
  • Discovery and registration of vulnerabilities (CVEs) or notable results in cybersecurity competitions and/or research and innovation activities   
  • CPTS, OSEP, OSWE, CWEE, eCPTX or similar 
  • University degree in IT fields, Cybersecurity preferred 
  • Applied knowledge with Windows (client/server), Linux/Unix, VMWare and cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP) 
  • In-depth knowledge of the application development process and of at least one scripting or programming language (Java, Python, PowerShell, PHP, VB.NET, Assembly, etc.) 
  • Strong documentation skills 
  • In-depth knowledge of tools specific to CI/CD automation and/or SOAR 

What's in it for you

•Work from Home – hybrid approach  

•Medical and dental services 

•Life and hospitalization insurance 

•Dedicated employee phone subscription 

•Special discounts for gyms and retailers 

•Annual Company Bonus 

•Ongoing Education – we continuously invest in you to ensure you have everything needed to excel on the job and enhance your skills  

•You get to work with tried and trusted web-technology 

•Getting in on the ground floor of a technology changing company 

•We let you write your own story by planning vacations: go for a trip, experience new things, have fun and enjoy your 23 days off.

•Special Paternal Program - 4 months of paid paternity leave 

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Vodafone is committed to attracting, developing and retaining the very best people by offering a motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognised and rewarded. We are committed to promoting Inclusion for All with the belief that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business. We actively encourage everyone to consider becoming a part of our journey.

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