Assistant Manager

Job title: Senior Penetration Tester – Assistant Manager
Location: UK
Line of Business: Advisory - Risk Consulting Service Area: Cyber Security 
Roles and Responsibilities

The Role
At KPMG we are looking for an Assistant Manager who lives and breathes hacking and information security. You will have earned your stripes doing CHECK work in data centres and be ready to, or already skilled in leading teams of talented testers. 
In return we will provide some of the UK’s most unique government and commercial engagements for you to cut your teeth on and a friendly, passionate team to develop and grow.

The Team
The KPMG’s Cyber Defence (CDS) Team conducts client facing technical assurance and penetration testing and has a long and successful history in KPMG. Our clients are diverse and we cover many sectors with particular specialisms in Financial Services, High-end Defence Assurance and Telecommunications. We work closely with the NCSC developing new schemes such as Cross Domain Solutions Testing (https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/ncsc-cross-domain-industry-pilot-stage-2) and are members of all current NCSC and CREST testing schemes - as a result we conduct interesting and challenging work that isn’t on offer elsewhere. 
Our team is made up of skilled individuals at different stages in their careers, centred around three locations in Leeds, Bristol and London, therefore we are able to offer flexibility in base location, as well as embracing remote working.
 

There has never been a been a better time to join the Technology & Data team at KPMG. Our clients are facing an inevitable surge in demand for timely, accurate insights along with agentic Ai implementations.  This is amplifying the need to have high quality data, at the heart of which, is Master Data Management, a discipline that has, until now, been overlooked and has suffered underinvestment.  We are seeing unprecedented demand for MDM services across our client base who are looking for partners they can trust to architect their MDM solutions across complex technology landscapes.   We are well positioned to do this with alongside our technology alliance partners and now need to scale our capability in this area.

Role summary

KPMG is now a digital business, and as a result, technology enables everything it does and requires KPMG to continue to transform with technology in support of its Growth and Trust agenda. This role, which is focused on the product and innovation aspects of Intellectual Property (IP), Technology and Data, is a part of the International Office of the General Counsel (IOGC).  It focuses on providing legal advice and support from IOGC on the development, protection, enforcement, acquisition and licensing of technology, software and data, particularly risks, protections and opportunities related to the patent aspects of KPMG’s IP, technology and data strategy.

Although this role is primarily focused on product and innovation, this role may also involve providing support to other IOGC lawyers on strategic initiatives and commercial technology transactions, particularly where the licensed technology is protected by patents, is not patent protected but is in a highly patented field, and/or leverages artificial intelligence and blockchain.

The person in this role will execute their responsibilities under the overall supervision of, and working collaboratively with, the most senior patent lawyer with respect to IP, Technology and Data and other senior lawyers focused on IP and technology law. This role requires a person to provide meaningful value-add to business and technology development teams by supporting product and innovation that contributes to over $17 billion in annual revenue, helping to analyse KPMGI’s intellectual property (IP) and technology assets, and advising on patent protection and IP enforcement, all while supporting IOGC’s senior leadership team in managing, mitigating and preventing legal and reputational risk.

The role is an excellent opportunity for a junior lawyer who has focused on patent work (prosecution, litigation, licensing, freedom to operate) to apply their skills to a rapidly growing international patent pipeline focused on emerging technologies and to expand their IP skillsets beyond patent law in a rapidly growing digital business.  

At KPMG Customer we believe in the importance of creating consistently brilliant customer and employee experiences. The way we do that is by combining our unique Nunwood insights, with a talented team of experience designers alongside the transformation capability to make it real.

This role sits within our Connected Front Office capability, which brings together expertise in Sales, Marketing, Service and Experience Design to transform the way businesses interact and engage with their customers. We help our clients connect with their customers on multiple levels and channels by embedding awareness of and benefit to the customer in every aspect of the business.

In this client facing role, you will use our pre-built assets, robust methodology and technology alliances to enable greater speed to value for our clients and support us in generating a higher margin, longer term revenue stream for KPMG.  Senior Managers have a commercial focus to their role which involves building relationships internally as well as with our key target clients to identify and shape future opportunities

Role summary

We are seeking a talented and innovative Security Engineer to join our Global Security Operations Center (GSOC) team on a two year Fixed Term Contract 

This role focuses on Innovation, ensuring that automation supports and is part of any operationalization activities while leveraging DevOps principles to enhance security operations. The ideal candidate will possess expertise in Palo Alto Cortex, Azure technologies including Logic Apps and Microsoft Sentinel, and ServiceNow, and be responsible for building, improving, and maintaining automated workflows to streamline security monitoring and incident response.

You will also work with the Innovation Lead to introduce new technologies and processes, and to participate in the delivery of technical projects, systems and services for the GSOC. You will be working in a fast-paced environment driving performance, reliability and supporting the GSOC tools and infrastructure hosted on Physical and Cloud platforms delivering SOC services.