Threat Hunting and Reconnaissance Cyber Engineer UK Remote £65k

Threat Hunting and Cyber Reconnaissance Engineer - UK Remote 50-65k

Are you interested in offensive security and thinking like a hacker, but don't necessarily want to spend your days buried in command-line tools and running endless technical tests?

We're looking for a Reconnaissance Threat Hunting and Cyber Reconnaissance Engineer to help businesses understand their security exposure through the eyes of an attacker.

Rather than producing endless vulnerability reports and unrealistic remediation lists, the focus is on identifying the weaknesses that genuinely matter: exploitable low-hanging fruit, exposed information and opportunities that a real attacker could take advantage of.

The Role

You'll use offensive security thinking, reconnaissance and OSINT to identify and investigate threats across an organisation's external attack surface.

Activities will include:

• External reconnaissance, attack surface assessments and web application exposure.

• Using OSINT, dark web resources and threat intelligence to uncover weaknesses.

• Identifying leaked credentials, compromised accounts, personal information and sensitive business data.

• Investigating data breaches and potential exposure of commercially sensitive or payment information.

• Thinking creatively about how attackers combine information to identify opportunities for compromise.

• Prioritising genuine, exploitable threats rather than simply producing lists of vulnerabilities.

• Recommending practical mitigations through configuration changes, access controls and blue team monitoring and detection.

About You

You could come from penetration testing, offensive security, threat intelligence, OSINT or external attack surface management.

We're particularly interested in people who enjoy the investigative side of security and have the curiosity to think beyond conventional vulnerability assessments.

You'll ideally have:

• An understanding of offensive security and attacker methodologies.

• Knowledge of web application security and external infrastructure.

• Practical OSINT and reconnaissance experience.

• An understanding of leaked credentials, data breaches and dark web intelligence.

• The ability to distinguish genuine threats from theoretical vulnerabilities.

• An appreciation of how defensive teams can detect and mitigate identified risks.

Above all, we're looking for someone curious, analytical and naturally inclined to think like an attacker.

The Opportunity

Join an excellent, progressive cyber security company that actively encourages innovation, rewards individual merit and gives people the freedom to develop ideas.

You'll benefit from:

• Excellent training and certification opportunities.

• Interesting projects and exposure to emerging security challenges.

• A genuinely innovative environment where individual contribution is valued.

Eligibility: Applicants must have unrestricted, permanent UK right to work (UK passport or ILR). Temporary visas, including Graduate visas, cannot be considered.

If you enjoy uncovering what others miss, understanding how attackers operate and helping businesses focus on the threats that really matter, we'd like to hear from you! Thanks for reading and happy job hunting!

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