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Senior Red Team Operator

Barclays Working From Home Remote senior full-time

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Description

We are seeking a Senior Red Team Operator to join our skilled team. As a Senior Red Team Operator, you will plan and lead full-scope Red Team operations, emulating real-world adversaries to test our defences under pressure.

Responsibilities:

  • 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.
  • Operating and tuning Command and Control frameworks.
  • Developing custom tooling, tradecraft, and EDR / defence-evasion techniques to emulate realistic threat actors.
  • Turning engagements into clear, compelling attack narratives.
  • 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.

Vice President Expectations:

  • Contribute to or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change.
  • Manage and mitigate risks through assessment.
  • Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls.
  • Collaborate with other areas of work.
  • Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought.

Requirements:

  • Certifications like CRTO, OSCP / OSEP, CRTP or CREST (CCSAS / CCRTS).
  • Proficiency in at least one coding language.
  • Demonstrated ability to solve complex and challenging technical problems.

Skills

Required

  • Red Teaming
  • Penetration Testing
  • Cyber Security
  • Command and Control frameworks
  • Coding

Nice to have

  • CRTO
  • OSCP / OSEP
  • CRTP
  • CREST (CCSAS / CCRTS)
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