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Red Team Lead

Hiring Organisation
Oscar Associates (UK) Limited
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£90,000
Red Team Lead | Remote (UK Only) This is a senior technical position for someone who thrives at the intersection of offensive security, threat research, and client advisory. You'll work closely with senior leadership to shape engagements, influence testing methodology, and deliver realistic, intelligence-driven adversary emulation … will play a key role in designing sophisticated attack scenarios, researching emerging threats, and translating real-world attacker behaviour into impactful red team operations The Opportunity: As a Red Team Lead, you'll take ownership of advanced adversary simulation engagements from initial planning through ...

Red Team Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Oscar Associates (UK) Limited
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£60,000
Red Team Engineer | Adversary Simulation Ready to make the move into red teaming properly? You've been building your offensive security skills - maybe in penetration testing, maybe through personal research and labs - and you're ready for a role that lets you focus entirely … adversary simulation. This is that role. We're looking for someone early in their red team journey but serious about the craft. You'll work directly alongside an experienced Technical Director, get involved in real intelligence-led engagements, and develop the skills that actually matter in this ...

Cyber Security Specialist (Red Team)

Hiring Organisation
Searchability NS&D
Location
Malvern, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£60,000 - £80,000 per annum
Cyber Security Specialist (Red Team) - Worcester, UK Salary up to £80,000 Depending on Experience Full time onsite role, in a cutting-edge environment Active eDV clearance required ABOUT THE CLIENT: Our client is a highly respected organisation operating at the forefront of advanced technology and cyber … progression Collaborative and inclusive working culture THE SENIOR CYBER SECURITY SPECIALIST ROLE: You will play a key role in delivering advanced red team operations, simulating real world cyber-attacks to test and strengthen security capabilities. Working within a specialist team, you will design and execute complex ...

Red Team Engineer

Hiring Organisation
17918
Location
London, United Kingdom
Red Team Engineer Adversary Simulation Ready to make the move into red teaming properly? You've been building your offensive security skills - maybe in penetration testing, maybe through personal research and labs - and you're ready for a role that lets you focus entirely … adversary simulation. This is that role. We're looking for someone early in their red team journey but serious about the cra... WKCL1_UKTJ ...

SOC Lead

Hiring Organisation
Experis
Location
Bath, Somerset, South West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£600 - £700 per day
convert hunt findings into new or improved detections Identify visibility gaps and recommend logging, telemetry, and tooling improvements Validate detection performance through purple team activities and simulation Threat Intelligence & Collaboration Consume and operationalise internal and external threat intelligence Maintain awareness of attacker tactics, tools, and campaigns relevant … organisation Act as a key interface between SOC, Threat Intel, Red Team, and Vulnerability Management Reporting & Metrics Track and report on hunt coverage, outcomes, dwell time, MTTR, and investigation quality Provide regular insights to senior leadership on threat trends and risk posture Required Skills & Experience Technical Experience ...

Red Team Lead

Hiring Organisation
Oscar Associates (UK) Limited
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
GBP 90,000 Annual
Red Team Lead Remote (UK Only) This is a senior technical position for someone who thrives at the intersection of offensive security, threat research, and client advisory. You'll work closely with senior leadership to shape engagements, influence testing methodology, and deliver realistic, intelligence-driven adversary emulation ...

Red Team Lead

Hiring Organisation
17918
Location
London, United Kingdom
Red Team Lead Remote (UK Only) This is a senior technical position for someone who thrives at the intersection of offensive security, threat research, and client advisory. You'll work closely with senior leadership to shape engagements, influence testing methodology, and deliver realistic, intelligence-driven adversary emulation ...

Cyber Security Specialist

Hiring Organisation
Searchability NS&D
Location
Worcester, England, United Kingdom
progression Collaborative and inclusive working culture THE SENIOR CYBER SECURITY SPECIALIST ROLE: You will play a key role in delivering advanced red team operations, simulating real world cyber-attacks to test and strengthen security capabilities. Working within a specialist team, you will design and execute complex … process and submit (subject to required skills) your application to our client in conjunction with this vacancy only. KEY SKILLS Red Team, Offensive Security, Cyber Security, Penetration Testing, Windows Security, Cobalt Strike, Cloud Security, AWS, Azure ...

Penetration Tester - Quant trading firm - London

Hiring Organisation
La Fosse
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
high-performance infrastructure at scale, and takes a rigorous, engineering-led approach to security. This is a senior individual contributor role sitting within a team responsible for identifying and validating security risks across a broad technology estate — spanning trading infrastructure, cloud platforms, APIs, and business applications. The hire will … Responsibilities Plan and conduct penetration tests across trading infrastructure, cloud platforms, APIs, and business applications in Windows and Linux environments Perform red team-style assessments and adversarial simulations to evaluate detection, response, and resilience capabilities Design and execute testing strategies to validate controls across applications, infrastructure ...

Security Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Brio Digital
Location
Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£520/day
successful candidate will work independently and proactively, raising risks, documenting processes, and performing risk assessments, reporting directly to the Security Lead and Senior Management Team in a timely and structured manner. Key Responsibilities Apply AWS security best practice across Guard Duty, VPC networking, Security Groups, IAM, WAF, and other … red-line statuses, ensuring associated remedial actions are completed Run annual AWS Well-Architected Reviews across relevant services Execute Red Team tests against products and services Conduct spot-checks on recorded live accesses to ensure compliance and integrity Key Requirements Proven hands-on experience ...

Cyber Threat Detection / SIEM Analyst - SANS/GIAC

Hiring Organisation
Adecco
Location
Wokingham, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£60000 - £90000/annum + Benefits
hunting-led environment. This position is well suited to analysts who enjoy thinking like an attacker, have worked alongside or supported red team or purple team activities, and want to deepen their expertise in threat detection and detection engineering. Skills & Experience We're Seeking Experience … threat hunting, cyber threat detection, SOC, blue team, or cyber defence environments, with ideally around five years hands on experience. Strong hands-on experience using SIEM platforms, including: Microsoft Sentinel (KQL) Splunk (SPL) Elastic Security/Kibana (KQL, ESQL) Practical and operational understanding of MITRE ATT&CK, attacker techniques ...

Cyber Threat Detection / SOC Analyst - SANS/GIAC

Hiring Organisation
Adecco
Location
Wokingham, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
hunting-led environment. This position is well suited to analysts who enjoy thinking like an attacker, have worked alongside or supported red team or purple team activities, and want to deepen their expertise in threat detection and detection engineering. Skills & Experience We're Seeking Experience … threat hunting, cyber threat detection, SOC, blue team, or cyber defence environments, with ideally around five years hands on experience. Strong hands-on experience using SIEM platforms, including: Microsoft Sentinel (KQL) Splunk (SPL) Elastic Security/Kibana (KQL, ESQL) Practical and operational understanding of MITRE ATT&CK, attacker techniques ...

Security Architect (Defense, Threat Detection & Response)(ATR)

Hiring Organisation
Robert Walters
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£80,000 - £90,000 per annum
seeking an experienced Security Architect - focusing on Advanced Threat Response (ATR) solution to be a part of the Architecture team, you will design and maintain end-to-end architecture for advanced threat detection and response across cloud, network, and endpoint environments. You will work cross-functionally to deliver scalable … environment. What you'll do: Define requirements, evaluation criteria, and success metrics for automated offensive security testing platforms and red/purple team tooling Lead vendor evaluations, proof of concepts (PoCs), and comparative product assessments Architect integration approaches, workflows, and security telemetry pipelines Produce detailed implementation plans ...

Senior Penetration Tester/ Security Consultant

Hiring Organisation
VIQU IT
Location
Horsham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£75000 - £85000/annum
network, cloud, and enterprise systems Conduct offensive security assessments to identify, validate, and exploit vulnerabilities while providing actionable remediation guidance Design and support purple team exercises to enhance detection and response capabilities Simulate advanced attack scenarios using frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK Produce high-quality technical reports … both technical and non-technical stakeholders Mentor junior team members and promote security testing best practices Requirements 5+ years of hands-on penetration testing experience across network, web, cloud, internal, red team, or purple team environments Excellent knowledge of: MITRE ATT&CK OWASP Threat modelling ...

CHECK Team Leader Penetration Tester

Hiring Organisation
Oscar Associates (UK) Limited
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£90,000
CHECK Team Leader Penetration Tester | Security Cleared | £80-90k | Remote We're working with a leading cyber security consultancy looking to grow their penetration testing capability with the addition of a CHECK Team Leader (CTL) This is an opportunity to join one of the UK's largest … include: Infrastructure penetration testing Web application testing Internal and external network testing Active Directory/privilege escalation assessments Cloud security testing Red team style activities and security assessments CHECK-based testing within highly secure environments You'll also be involved in scoping engagements, supporting clients through remediation ...

Senior Cyber Security Analyst

Hiring Organisation
Hays
Location
Bolton, Greater Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£55,000
Experience with the Microsoft Defender suite and Tanium would be ideal Solid understanding of cybersecurity principles and incident response processes. Experience exposure to red-teaming would be great but not crucial Experience of use case development An understanding of security best practice frameworks (NIST, ISO27001 etc) Good understanding ...

Senior Security Researcher

Hiring Organisation
Xact Placements Limited
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£70,000 - £95,000 per annum
TTPs and attack modern infrastructure Researching cutting-edge attack vectors across cloud, SaaS, web stacks, and internet-exposed infrastructure Partnering with Red Team Engineers to scale and automate your discoveries so nothing gets wasted (Optional but encouraged) Presenting your research at industry conferences — with full company support … enabled to do your best work Huge growth – this scale-up is in hypergrowth mode, with internal promotion baked into the culture World-class team – collaborate with some of the sharpest offensive minds in the industry This isn’t just another pentesting job. It’s your chance to push ...

Senior Security Consultant

Hiring Organisation
Xact Placements Limited
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£70,000 - £95,000 per annum
TTPs and attack modern infrastructure Researching cutting-edge attack vectors across cloud, SaaS, web stacks, and internet-exposed infrastructure Partnering with Red Team Engineers to scale and automate your discoveries so nothing gets wasted (Optional but encouraged) Presenting your research at industry conferences — with full company support … enabled to do your best work Huge growth – this scale-up is in hypergrowth mode, with internal promotion baked into the culture World-class team – collaborate with some of the sharpest offensive minds in the industry This isn’t just another pentesting job. It’s your chance to push ...

Splunk Developer

Hiring Organisation
Anson Mccade
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
£65,000
frameworks Continuously tune and optimise correlation rules to improve signal-to-noise ratio Validate detection logic through simulations, threat emulation, and red team collaboration Work closely with SOC tooling and engineering teams to ensure efficient data ingestion and parsing Document detection logic, methodologies, and expected outputs ...

LEAD CYBER SECURITY ENGINEER

Hiring Organisation
Secure Recruitment Ltd
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Lead or Manager who loves being Hands-On with Python & Go, but finds equal fulfilment in Course-Correcting Technical Roadblocks & Accelerating a Cross-Regional Team's Growth . The Technical Escalation Authority: A Senior Engineer or Principal Engineer with Deep Offensive Security Expertise who is ready to step … Engineering Standards & Lead a Distributed Team without needing a heavy corporate, bureaucratic environment. Skills & Experience of Senior Cyber Security Engineer will include: Engineering Leadership ( 5+ Years ) : Proven success as a Hands-On Leader, who has Led, Managed, Coached & Built Engineering Teams, with a talent for Acting as the Definitive ...

Security Engineer - Detection & Response | Leading Global Investment Group

Hiring Organisation
Techfellow Limited
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
move quickly Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain security trade-offs to engineering and leadership teams (Preferred) Offensive security, red-team, exploit development or threat-research experience (Preferred) Exposure to statistics, signal processing, data science, electrical engineering or another rigorous technical discipline ... ...

SOFTWARE ENGINEER (DJANGO / PYTHON) - SECURITY

Hiring Organisation
Secure Recruitment Ltd
Location
West London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Permanent, Work From Home
Salary
£80,000
significant venture funding, they are expanding their Threat Intelligence Operations by scaling the robust backend infrastructure that powers their Global Vulnerability Research & Automated Red Teaming. Role Overview: Step in as the engine behind their Intelligence Operations. You will build and scale the high-throughput Python ( Django ) Backend that ...

Principal Vulnerability Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Unity Systems
Location
United Kingdom
weaponized by adversaries .This role is ideal for a Senior Vulnerability Researcher, Principal Security Engineer, Exploit Developer, Offensive Security Researcher, Red Team Researcher, Security Software Engineer, or Reverse Engineer looking to work on high-impact security challenges at scale .What You'll D oVulnerability Researc hConduct original … with engineers, researchers, and product teams to operationalize research outcomes .Establish technical standards and best practices across offensive security engineering and vulnerability research .Mentor team members on exploit development, reverse engineering, vulnerability analysis, and tooling development .Community Engagemen tPublish original research, technical blogs, whitepapers, and vulnerability disclosures .Present research ...

Cybersecurity Specialist

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Technologies Recruitment
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£450 - £600/day
workshops to test real-world control effectiveness. Governance: Maintain an adversarial knowledge base and map safeguards to compliance frameworks. Role 3: AI Evals & Red Teaming Expert Mission: Automate the "Release Gate" for AI systems through rigorous adversarial testing. Key Tasks: Integrate tools like Pyrit, Garak, or AgentDojo into ...

Threat & Adversarial AI Expert

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Digital
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£500 - £600 per day
NIST AI Risk Management Framework. Hands-on experience securing AWS Bedrock and governing the full AI model lifecycle. Ability to translate 'AI Red Teaming' outcomes into high-impact insights for both engineers and executives. London Based | 2 days in the office | £500 to £600 a day inside IR35 ...