Senior Offensive Security Consultant

Job Description:

Salary Range: £50,000 - £60,000

Leonardo UK operates a grade-based salary framework with broad bands. The salary range shown reflects the approved grade band for this role, or a narrower hiring range published within that band, and is benchmarked against the external market. Exceptions above the standard range are managed through governance controls to protect internal equity.

Leonardo UK is seeking a Senior Offensive Security Consultant to join the Cyber & Security Solutions Division team. This role is focused on leading, directing and continuously improving the Leonardo UK Red Team, ensuring the effective management, and delivery of adversary simulation, purple team, and penetration testing engagements.

As a Senior Offensive Security Consultant at Leonardo UK, you will be responsible for leading the Red Team capability while also delivering as part of a Red Ream Delivery Cell to external customers. Supporting a global aerospace and defence organisation, you will help protect critical systems, sensitive information and operational services against an evolving cyber threat landscape. This role operates within a blended hybrid working model, combining home working with on-site collaboration at Leonardo UK and customer locations to enable effective teamwork and close engagement with internal stakeholders and customers.

• Deliver Full spectrum adversarial simulation engagements:
  Deliver engagements into the public sector covering all aspects from initial access, physical intrusion, privilege escalation, through to report delivery, debrief and a post technical replay of actions performed during the engagement

• Maintaining and developing the adversarial simulation capability:
  Research and development into current TTPs and maintaining / improving upon infrastructure design choice for hosting security tooling during engagements.

• Documentation and Knowledge Sharing:
  Maintain comprehensive documentation of infrastructure configurations, deployment procedures, and troubleshooting guidelines, and facilitate knowledge sharing among team members to ensure operational continuity and efficiency.

• Cloud Environment Management:
  Manage cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) where security tools are deployed, optimizing resource utilization and cost-effectiveness while adhering to security best practices.

• Infrastructure Provisioning:
  Provision and manage the infrastructure required to run security tools ensuring high availability, scalability, and reliability.

We are looking for a motivated self-managed individual who is willing to help design and adapt a constantly evolving service; someone who can demonstrate above average analytical skills and liaise professionally with peers and customers even under pressure.

• Comfortable with suitable coding languages for OST / Malware development (C, C#, Python, JS, Go, Rust).

• Strong technical skills within the following specialisms:
  Initial Access, Physical Intrusion, EDR Bypass, Cloud Exploitation, Malware Development etc.

• Demonstrable experience delivering red team engagements.

• Relevant regulatory certifications relating to red team / pentesting capability (CCRTS, CCRTM, CTL, CTM)

• Experience in projects working within the MOD.

• A deep understanding of MITRE and CAF frameworks and how they are utilised within reporting.

• Relevant certifications relating to red teaming / pentesting capability (OSCP, OSEP, OSED, OSCE, RTO, RTO2, etc

This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government's Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personnel Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NSV) will apply. This role requires Developed Vetting (DV) clearance prior to starting.

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This is a hybrid role with frequent travel required to Bristol and customers locations.

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