[Hiring] Senior Red Team Operator @Barclays

Role Description

To identify potential vulnerabilities within the banks IT systems using penetration testing tools and techniques to ensure security of computer systems, applications, servers, and networks.

• Development and execution of assessments, audits, and threat models to identify vulnerabilities within the banks systems, applications and servers using penetration tools and techniques, and communicate key findings and recommendations to stakeholders.
• Collaboration with stakeholders and IT teams to identify emerging cyber-attack techniques, tools and technologies and to support the development of penetration testing methodologies.
• Development and maintenance of comprehensive documents and reports for senior stakeholders on penetration test findings, and remediation guidance.
• Collaboration with stakeholders to understand their security requirements and controls in business processes, application/services, to enhance overall security posture and assurance.
• Identification of emerging vulnerabilities, exploit codes and cyber-attacks to develop testing methodologies and assurance activities.

We’re looking for a Senior Red Team Operator to join a skilled, close-knit team that genuinely loves this work. You’ll plan and lead full-scope Red Team operations – cyber, physical, social engineering, and everything in between – emulating real-world adversaries to test how our defences actually hold up under pressure. When you find the gaps, you’ll help close them.

This is a hands-on role for someone who’s happiest with a shell, a payload, and a hard target. You’ll have real autonomy over how you approach engagements, time to research new tradecraft, and a team of talented operators who’ll look to you to set the technical standard, pressure-test their thinking, and lead from the front.

• Scoping and leading full-scope Red Team engagements against well-defined adversarial objectives across cyber, physical, social engineering, and process attack surfaces.
• Leading on methodology: shaping how the team scopes, runs and reports engagements and driving continuous improvement in how you all operate.
• Designing and delivering phishing and social engineering campaigns end to end – standing up the supporting infrastructure (domains, redirectors, mail and landing-page servers), crafting convincing pretexts, and developing the accompanying payloads to emulate realistic threat-actor delivery.
• Operating and tuning Command and Control frameworks (e.g. Cobalt Strike, Nighthawk, or equivalent) through initial access, post-exploitation, and lateral movement.
• Developing custom tooling, tradecraft, and EDR / defence-evasion techniques to emulate realistic threat actors.
• Turning engagements into clear, compelling attack narratives – the kind that land with both the engineers who’ll fix the issues and the executives who need to understand the risk.
• Contributing to detection and resilience improvements through close collaboration with defensive teams.
• Researching emerging TTPs, threats, and tooling, and bringing new techniques into the team’s methodology.
• Setting the technical bar and mentoring across the team – coaching operators, reviewing tradecraft, and helping develop the next generation of Red Team talent.

Qualifications

• Certifications like CRTO, OSCP / OSEP, CRTP or CREST (CCSAS / CCRTS) welcome, but your hands-on ability matters far more than acronyms.
• Proficiency in at least one coding language.
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex and challenging technical problems.

Requirements

• You will be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as job-specific technical skills.

Benefits

• This role is fully remote role with occasional travel required.