Technical Lead Cyber Offensive Security

Schwarz Unternehmenskommunikation GmbH & Co. KG

Job

You lead a team in Offensive Security, manage assessments and security analyses, present findings to management, while continuously shaping standards and quality within the team.

Job summary

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Your role in the team

  • You provide technical leadership to the team and manage the prioritization and resource allocation of assignments.
  • You act as the point of contact for the CISO and the Security Board, coordinating assignments and expectations and presenting results to management.
  • You shape the team’s standards and quality by continuously developing audit methodologies, quality gates, and reporting standards.
  • You independently conduct complex offensive assessments, architecture evaluations, and security due diligence in tandem with the team.
  • You examine applications, cloud infrastructures, and system designs using a transparent white-box approach, analyzing them in collaboration with the relevant departments.
  • You review critical threat hypotheses from management and validate time-sensitive vulnerabilities on an ad hoc basis to determine whether they can be exploited in practice.
  • You translate technical findings into business risks and coordinate the handover of individual findings to vulnerability management or other relevant stakeholders.

Our expectations of you

Qualifications

  • You have deep, extensive hands-on experience in Offensive Security (advanced penetration testing, AppSec, vulnerability research).
  • You communicate exceptionally well at C-level and are able to distill complex technical matters into concise, management-friendly language.
  • You have extensive tech expertise in areas such as application logic, API design, cloud-native architectures, IAM, and threat modeling.
  • You have a solid command of source code analysis and use scripting or programming languages with ease.
  • You combine an attacker’s mindset with a high degree of diplomacy to serve as a valued sparring partner to development and architecture teams.
  • You have relevant certifications and are fluent in both German and English, with strong negotiation skills.

Experience

  • You have several years of experience in technical leadership, project management, or mentoring (senior) teams in offensive or defensive security.

Benefits

Topics you will work on

Job locations

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  • Location Neckarsulm
    74172 Baden-Württemberg, Germany

About your employer

The Schwarz Group, based in Neckarsulm, is a significant German conglomerate and one of the largest retail groups in Europe. It operates over 13,900 stores under the brands Lidl and Kaufland and employs around 575,000 people.

Company type
Established Company
Work model
Onsite, Hybrid, Full Remote
Industry
Trade
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Technical Lead Cyber Offensive Security

Schwarz Unternehmenskommunikation GmbH & Co. KG