Cyber Security Practitioner

Are you passionate about technology and enjoy explaining complex solutions in a way that everybody gets excited? If so, read on!

About Picus

Picus Security, the leading security validation company, gives organizations a clear picture of their cyber risk based on business context. Picus transforms security practices by correlating, prioritizing, and validating exposures across siloed findings so teams can focus on critical gaps and high-impact fixes. With Picus, security teams can quickly take action with one-click mitigations to stop more threats with less effort.

The Picus Security Validation Platform easily reaches across on-prem environments, hybrid clouds and endpoints coupled with Numi AI to provide exposure validation. 

The pioneer of Breach and Attack Simulation, Picus delivers award-winning threat-centric technology that allows teams to pinpoint fixes worth pursuing, offering a 95% recommendation in Gartner Peer Review.

About The Role

If you’re a results-driven person with an entrepreneurial mindset, who takes the initiative and thrives in a dynamic environment, then this is a great opportunity to play a pivotal role in a fast-growing cyber security company. We are looking for a smart and driven leader to have a direct impact on the future of our business by helping to influence global adoption of our award-winning Picus Security Validation Platform.

As a Cyber Security Practitioner (Junior Strategist), you'll help identify cybersecurity challenges and translate them into actionable product solutions. Collaborating closely with product, engineering, and research teams, you'll validate ideas through structured research and customer feedback. You'll take ownership of cybersecurity projects, driving key components of strategic initiatives while proactively sharing insights and recommending impactful process improvements. Your analytical skills, collaborative mindset, and effective communication will enable you to clearly present cybersecurity concepts as strategic opportunities aligned with organizational objectives.

Picus is headquartered in Ankara, with a regional office in Istanbul, but our team is remote across Türkiye. Please note that all CVs must be submitted in English.

• Contribute actively to the identification, framing, and management of cybersecurity challenges and ideas, turning them into viable product features or solutions
• Collaborate closely with product management, engineering, and research teams to drive initiatives from ideation through validation, ensuring alignment with customer value and market needs
• Conduct or coordinate necessary research activities, validating ideas through structured methodologies and customer feedback to confirm genuine user value
• Manage and execute smaller cybersecurity projects or components of larger strategic initiatives, maintaining clear oversight of project objectives, timelines, and deliverables
• Share cybersecurity insights proactively with internal stakeholders, recommending process improvements and facilitating informed decision-making
• Demonstrate initiative by taking ownership of tasks, solving problems collaboratively, and contributing strategically to team discussions
• Translate cybersecurity challenges and concepts into clear business cases, demonstrating their strategic value and alignment with organizational goals

• Demonstrated practical experience applying cybersecurity knowledge to real-world scenarios, evidenced by a portfolio of impactful contributions
• Competency in implementing and managing cybersecurity solutions, with a solid understanding of security architecture principles and threat management techniques
• Familiarity with product management processes, including idea validation, user-centric research, and iterative development methodologies
• Proven capability to collaborate effectively across interdisciplinary teams, including engineering, product management, and research units
• Strong analytical and organizational skills, capable of managing multiple projects or workstreams simultaneously with clear communication and structured oversight
• Initiative-taking mindset and excellent problem-solving abilities, comfortable providing input and making informed decisions within a dynamic team environment
• Effective communication skills, clearly articulating cybersecurity concepts, findings, and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences

Working at Picus

Fascinating work - a chance to shape and lead an exciting, fast-growing cyber security segment. Security Validation is a concept that helps organizations evaluate their security posture in a continuous, automated, and repeatable way. This approach allows for the identification of imminent threats, provides recommended actions, and produces valuable metrics about cyber-risk levels.

Unlimited opportunity! We are growing. At Picus, you'll be provided with as much responsibility as you can handle - new career development opportunities constantly arise given our rate of growth.

Global exposure - Get a lot of experience working not only in a fast-growing startup but also interact with customers all around the world.

Be part of a global remote team who is taking on Exposure Validation and a growing market segment.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, sex, race, color, national origin, religious belief, gender or gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by International law.  Upon conditional offer of employment, candidates are required to complete reference and identity checks in line with local labor laws and as per the Company’s employment policy.