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Red Team Operator

Barclays

Remote - United Kingdom

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Remote - United Kingdom
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Remote
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Barclays
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We’re looking for a Red Team Operator to join a skilled, close-knit team that genuinely loves this work. You’ll take part and operate in 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 time to research new tradecraft, and a team of talented, motivated operators around you to bounce ideas off, pair on tooling and learn from. What you’ll be doing Taking part and operating in full-scope Red Team engagements against well-defined adversarial objectives across cyber, physical, social engineering, and process attack surfaces. Helping design and deliver 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. Some other highly valued skills may include: 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. You will be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as job-specific technical skills. This role is fully remote role with occasional travel required. Purpose of the role 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.

Accountabilities 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.

Assistant Vice President Expectations To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions. Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on 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 If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected

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