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From the employer's careers site First seen 29 Oct 2026

Red Team Operator - AVP

Barclays Remote senior full-time

Salary

$115,000 - $155,000 per year

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Description

We are seeking a Red Team Operator - AVP to join our team at Barclays. The successful candidate will be responsible for identifying potential vulnerabilities within the bank's IT systems using penetration testing tools and techniques.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Development and execution of assessments, audits, and threat models to identify vulnerabilities within the bank's systems, applications, and servers using penetration tools and techniques.
  • Collaboration with stakeholders and IT teams to identify emerging cyber-attack techniques, tools, and technologies.
  • 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.
  • Identification of emerging vulnerabilities, exploit codes, and cyber-attacks to develop testing methodologies and assurance activities.

Assistant Vice President Expectations:

  • To advise and influence decision-making, contribute to policy development, and take responsibility for operational effectiveness.
  • Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well-developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver work that impacts the whole business function.
  • Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives, and determination of reward outcomes.

Requirements:

  • Experience executing full-scope Red Team engagements aligned to clearly defined adversarial objectives across cyber, physical, social engineering, and process attack surfaces.
  • Designing and delivering end-to-end phishing and social engineering campaigns.
  • Deploying, operating, and optimizing Command and Control (C2) frameworks.
  • Assessing the effectiveness of security controls by simulating advanced attacker behaviors.
  • Collaborating with security teams and stakeholders to translate findings into actionable recommendations and measurable security improvements.

Salary Information:

  • Minimum Salary: $115,000
  • Maximum Salary: $155,000

Benefits:

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • 401(k)
  • Life insurance
  • Paid leave for qualifying circumstances

Skills

Required

  • penetration testing
  • cybersecurity
  • Red Team operations
  • Command and Control frameworks
  • phishing and social engineering

Nice to have

  • OSCP
  • OSEP
  • CRTO
  • CRTP
  • CREST
  • CCSAS
  • CCRTS
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