We're Hiring - Ethical Hacker - Cyber and Fraud Centre

Ethical Hacker – Permanent Full Time Monday-Thursday

Salary – £35,000 – £40,000 depending on experience

Cyber and Fraud Centre Scotland – City Centre Edinburgh – Hybrid

Do you want to work for a social enterprise and help make a positive impact in cyber security?

Who we are

The Cyber and Fraud Centre is Scotland’s only cyber social enterprise. Our mission as a socially driven organisation is to deliver accessible, affordable, and relevant cyber and fraud services. With our dedicated team, we protect organisations all over Scotland by offering professional services, skills, and community building. The Cyber and Fraud Centre has established itself as an authoritative voice in the realm of cyber safety and resilience ensuring a safer and more robust business landscape in Scotland.

Our values: integrity, ethical and making a difference are at the heart of everything we do. We ensure that all private, public and third sector organisations we work with have access to our people and resources, to stay secure. We are dedicated to promoting cybersecurity and providing comprehensive support within the business sector. We achieve this through the delivery of education and preventative training, as well as actively raising awareness of threats throughout the business community and providing support in the event of an incident. It is our intention that organisations have the skills and knowledge to protect themselves against online attacks.

We are a small, high performing team with a focus on genuine care and respect for one another as we work to bring cyber safety to organisations around Scotland. The threat landscape is constantly evolving, and this is an exciting time to join us as we continue to grow and expand our services. Due to the volume of calls we received from individual victims of fraud and cyber crimes, we created a charity, Cyber and Fraud Hub to provide support to individuals, which this role will also support.

We have an internal culture and well-being group, and we meet to discuss what we have been doing, and what new things we can do to further enhance the experience for employees. This has led to us implementing a 4-day working week.

About the role

We are looking for a Ethical Hacker who lives and breathes technology, thrives in fast-moving environments, and wants to work with a talented, purpose driven team. In this role you will support clients by helping them to understand and manage their cyber security risk, secure their systems, detect and manage their threats and vulnerabilities.

Key Ethical Hacker responsibilities will include:

Conducting vulnerability testing.
Support penetration tests.
Providing clear recommendations to mitigate risk.
Communicating complex technical risks and cyber threats clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Being first point of contact for our Incident Response helpline.
Maintaining up-to-date knowledge of malware trends, threat actors, and attack techniques, providing timely advice to support decision-making and risk management.
Maintaining awareness of the current cyber threat landscape, industry standards, and best practices.
Continual development of technical competencies and maintenance of any professional qualifications.

About you

You will be joining a caring and committed team with a strong sense of purpose.

You will have

Have a degree in Cyber Security or related field along with at least one year’s Ethical Hacking experience.
Have excellent verbal communication and report writing skills.
Have advanced knowledge of Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems, networking, web, and cloud standards, and security tooling.
Be proficient in the use of Microsoft Office.
Have the ability to prioritise workload with flexibility to meet operational needs.
Have excellent organisational and time management skills.
Have the ability to problem solve.
Have strong attention to detail.
Work effectively in a team and on your own initiative with minimum supervision.
Be positive, have a proactive mindset, ready to support a collaborative team.
Have excellent interpersonal skills.
Have an understanding of cybersecurity concepts.
Have working knowledge of security tools or cloud platforms.
Have the ability to work independently in a remote environment when required.
Be passionate for security and self-development to keep up to date with the evolving threat and vulnerability landscape, new technologies and service improvements.
Have an understanding of cloud security principles.
Have the ability to articulate the impact of vulnerabilities on existing and future designs and systems.

You must have the right to work in the UK. For further information please see Ethical Hacker job description.

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To apply

Send an up-to-date CV and cover letter setting out your suitability for the role to [email protected]. Application deadline: 5pm Wednesday 7^th January 2026.

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