Red Team Operator

Join Barclays as a Red Team Operator and be at the forefront of adversarial threat emulation, helping the organization make informed risk decisions. You’ll leverage industry-leading tools, explore cutting-edge techniques, and conduct operations across various domains, including cyber, physical, people, process, and technology. To excel, you’ll need strong technical skills, hands-on security testing experience, and the ability to collaborate and solve problems. Additional skills such as coding proficiency, software engineering, and experience with Red Team engagements are highly valued. Embrace the opportunity to work within a globally diverse team.

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

• Experience in participating in multi week security assessments.
• Capability in defined security domain(s) expertise.
• Knowledge and experience of conducting testing in production enterprise environments.
• Ability to act and communicate professionally to audiences at all levels, whilst remaining consistent on messaging.
• Experience working in financial or other highly regulated organizational sector.
• Experience / Training in adversarial threat simulations.
• Recognised industry qualifications.
• Python Development Skills.
• Scripting Skills / Tools Development.

This role is remote.

Salary/rate minimum $130,000

Salary/rate maximum $167,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate.  It does not include any another type of compensation or benefits that may be available

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

Purpose of the role

To provide a primary liaison service between the business, technology, and security functions. In order to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information, and support the mitigation of security risk. 

Accountabilities

• Collaboration with stakeholders to understand their security requirements in business processes and IT projects, to enhance overall risk management.
• Execution of risk assessments to identify and prioritise potential cybersecurity threats that could impact the banks operations and data and guide the implementation of mitigation strategies and communicate findings to relevant findings to relevant senior stakeholders.
• Collaboration with business units to develop and implement security policies and procedures for the banks operations aligned to the risk management framework.
• Management of the implementation, testing and monitoring of security controls across the banks IT systems to ensure the effectiveness of controls and mitigation of risk.
• Execution of training content and sessions to educate employees, enhance cybersecurity awareness and provide guidance on safe online practices.
• Management of complex cybersecurity incidents by collaborating with IT teams and response experts to effectively resolve cases through analysis, expertise support and project supervision.
• Identification of emerging cybersecurity trends, threats, and new technologies to address potential risks by advocating the adoption of new security solutions.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.