Senior Red Team Operator- VP

Job Description Purpose of the role

To assess and improve the security posture of the organisation by identifying, validating, and helping mitigate weaknesses across information technology (IT) systems, applications, networks, and infrastructure through authorised security testing, adversarial simulation, and threat-based assessment techniques.

Plan and deliver offensive security engagements, audits and threat models to identify vulnerabilities and adversary pathways across the bank’s systems, applications, networks, and infrastructure using offensive security tools and techniques; and communicating actionable findings, risk impact, and remediation recommendations to technical and business stakeholders. Collaborate with stakeholders and technology teams to identify emerging cyber-attack techniques, tools, and technologies, and to contribute to the continuous improvement of offensive security methodologies, frameworks, and testing approaches.

Develop and maintain clear, comprehensive documentation and reports for senior stakeholders, detailing offensive security findings, risk impact, and remediation guidance. Collaborate with stakeholders to understand security requirements and existing controls across business processes, applications, and services, in order to enhance the organisation’s overall security posture and assurance. Identify emerging vulnerabilities, exploit techniques, and cyber-attack trends to inform the development of offensive security testing methodologies and assurance activities.

Design and maintain offensive security tooling, infrastructure, and tradecraft, ensuring safe, and controlled operations aligned with legal, ethical, and organisational requirements. Support the management of complex cybersecurity incidents by collaborating with information technology (IT), security operations, and incident response teams, providing technical analysis, subject-matter expertise, and advisory input to assist effective investigation and remediation efforts.

To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and allocate budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements. If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.

If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others. OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction.

They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions. Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional…