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Join Us Bring your expertise. Share your insight. Do work that matters.

Join Us and bring your expertise to Black Chili’s cyber security and assurance work. We are looking for experienced people who enjoy solving problems, sharing knowledge and helping customers improve.

IASME assessors, ISO implementers and auditors, CREST penetration testers, risk assessors and security professionals. If that sounds like you, we would like to hear from you.

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Specialist expertise. Shared standards.

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Join Us and put your expertise to work.

We welcome specialists with depth in their field and security professionals who can see the bigger picture. The common thread is sound judgement and work that helps a customer move forward.

IASME assessors

Experience in Cyber Essentials, Cyber Essentials Plus or IASME Cyber Assurance. Bring your understanding of the requirements and the practical challenges businesses face.

The contribution: Clear assessment, useful guidance and confidence in the evidence.

ISO implementers and auditors

Practitioners who help organisations build, improve and audit management systems. We are particularly interested in ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 experience.

The contribution: Management systems and audit findings that reflect how the organisation works.

CREST penetration testers

Experienced penetration testers with relevant CREST qualifications and a considered approach to scoping, testing and reporting.

The contribution: Well-evidenced findings and remediation advice that technical teams can use.

Risk assessors

People who can connect threats, vulnerabilities and business consequences, and help customers make informed choices.

The contribution: Clear risk assessments and practical recommendations for treatment.

Security professionals

Experienced consultants, security architects and practitioners across technical security, governance, supplier assurance and AI.

The contribution: Specialist insight and hands-on support where a customer needs it.

Expertise that complements ours

Your experience may cross several disciplines or sit in a specialist area. Tell us what you know well and the problems you like to solve.

The contribution: A fresh perspective and capability that strengthens the work we deliver.

Good people. Useful work.

Our work brings together security testing, assessment, assurance and advice. Customers need people who can understand their situation, ask the right questions and turn findings into practical next steps.

We value technical depth, curiosity and the confidence to challenge an assumption. Just as important is the ability to explain what matters and work constructively with others.

Make your contribution count.

You could help a business achieve certification, strengthen a management system, understand a technical weakness or make a better security decision.

We want to build relationships with people who care about the quality of their work and the difference it makes. Bring your own experience and perspective to the conversation.

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Tell us what you do best.

Tell us about your specialisms, relevant qualifications and the work you enjoy. A few examples of the problems you have helped solve will give us a useful introduction to your experience.

Whether you have a focused technical discipline or broad security delivery experience, we would welcome a conversation about how we could work together.

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Introduce yourself.

Tell us about your expertise and the work you are interested in. We can explore where there may be a fit.

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