If the position has individual contributor responsibilities

• 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 areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills 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.

What you’ll be doing

• Scoping and leading full-scope Red Team engagements against well-defined adversarial objectives across cyber, physical, social engineering, and process attack surfaces.
• Leading on methodology: shaping how the team scopes, runs and reports engagements and driving continuous improvement in how you all operate.
• Designing and delivering phishing and social engineering campaigns end to end – standing up the supporting infrastructure (domains, redirectors, mail and landing-page servers), crafting convincing pretexts, and developing the accompanying payloads to emulate realistic threat-actor delivery.
• Operating and tuning Command and Control frameworks (e.g. Cobalt Strike, Nighthawk, or equivalent) through initial access, post-exploitation, and lateral movement.
• Developing custom tooling, tradecraft, and EDR / defence-evasion techniques to emulate realistic threat actors.
• Turning engagements into clear, compelling attack narratives – the kind that land with both the engineers who’ll fix the issues and the executives who need to understand the risk.
• Contributing to detection and resilience improvements through close collaboration with defensive teams.
• Researching emerging TTPs, threats, and tooling, and bringing new techniques into the team’s methodology.
• Setting the technical bar and mentoring across the team – coaching operators, reviewing tradecraft, and helping develop the next generation of Red Team talent.

Some other highly valued skills may include

• Certifications like CRTO, OSCP / OSEP, CRTP or CREST (CCSAS / CCRTS) welcome, but your hands-on ability matters far more than acronyms.
• Proficiency in at least one coding language.
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex and challenging technical problems.

You will be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as job-specific technical skills.

Role Details

This role is fully remote role with occasional travel required.