Description
JOB TITLE: Senior Red Team Operator
SALARY: London £85,000 - £102,000 outside of London £73,000 - £89,000
LOCATION(S): London, Bristol, Edinburgh or Manchester
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: At least two days per week (or 40% of your time) at our office locations listed above.
About this opportunity
Within the Chief Security Office (CSO) our role is to protect the Group and our customers from security threats, and to enable the Group’s businesses to make change to their services safely and quickly.
The Advanced Intrusion Testing (AIT) team conducts intelligence-led intrusion tests, including Red Teaming and Purple Teaming, designed to simulate the approach a skilled adversary would use in real life cyber-attack scenarios against the Group. Scenarios are crafted to independently evaluate the organisation’s end-to-end cyber resilience by testing people, processes and technology.
We’re currently recruiting for an experienced Senior Red Team Operator to expand our Advanced Intrusion Testing service.
1. Key responsibilities
This is a hands-on role delivering intelligence-led, long-running red team campaigns where stealth, tradecraft, and tailored TTPs matter. You’ll work on realistic adversary simulations with meaningful dwell-time and objectives, operating with a strong stealth and OPSEC mindset across complex enterprise environments.
2. Deliver Red Team Adversary Emulation tests, while handling communication with key collaborators. Research and devise testing that will challenge the organisations’ ability to detect and respond to cyber-attacks.
3. Support the delivery of collaborative testing exercises (Purple Team tests), maximising opportunities for the SOC to improve LBG’s security defence.
4. Work closely as part of a multi-functional matrix team of technical authorities from across the Chief Security Office and the business, focused on proactively improving the security posture of the Group.
5. Review testing outputs and support collaborators to identify appropriate remedial plans, while identifying thematic findings and root cause analysis.
6. Act as a technical authority within Chief Security Office and share knowledge and technical expertise to others through consultation, providing advice and coaching.
7. Identify and drive continuous improvement within the AIT team and support the direction of overall AIT strategy.
8. Lead by example, consistently demonstrating the Group Values and the Leadership Behaviours by being approachable and acting with integrity to build trust and credibility within your team.
9. Lead informal technical coaching and sharing of knowledge, providing an appropriate level of support for team members from a technical level.
Why join us?
We’re transforming at pace. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to change the way we meet the needs of our 28 million customers. We’re growing, and we’d love you to be part of the journey.
What we’re looking for:
10. Solid experience in offensive security operations, Red Teaming, Purple Teaming including cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS & GCP.
11. Ability to conduct targeted, covert tests including identifying vulnerabilities, exploiting them, and performing post-exploitation activities.
12. Solid grasp of Red Team, Purple Team, and Cloud methodologies and tools.
13. Good communication skills and experience of communicating technical issues with both technical and non-technical collaborators.
14. Good understanding of network and operating system fundamentals across Windows and *NIX.
15. Good overall working knowledge of enterprise architectures, operations, and IT environments and Defensive Security tooling.
16. Familiarity with the MITRE ATT&CK frameworks
Preferred Qualifications
17. Offensive security / cybersecurity related qualifications (e.g. SANS GIAC, CREST, OSCP/OSCE, CRTO or equivalent cybersecurity programme).
18. Understanding of malware techniques.
19. Social Engineering and/or physical intrusion techniques
20. Software development or coding experience in any low level or high level language (C#, C++, C, Python, Bash Scripting, Java, Rust, etc.).
This is a place for you
Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.
We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
21. A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
22. An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
23. Share schemes including free shares
24. Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
25. 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
26. A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Ready to make an impact? Apply today.
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.