Red Team Operations Manager

Overview

In this role, you will shape and lead G-Research’s Adversary Emulation programme as part of Security Assurance. You will steer operations, develop tooling and capabilities, and provide technical leadership to ensure high-quality, secure threat emulation across the organisation. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to maximise learning and impact, coaching others and upholding professional conduct. This is a mission-driven opportunity to apply advanced offensive security in a finance technology environment and influence security decisions at the highest levels.

Pay / Benefits

• annual discretionary bonus
• Lunch provided (Just Eat for Business)
• 30 days’ annual leave
• 9% company pension contributions
• Comprehensive healthcare and life assurance
• Cycle-to-work scheme

Responsibilities

• Shape the future direction of the AE programme, developing the team, tooling and operational capabilities
• Lead the delivery of AE operations, ensuring they are well scoped, professionally executed and deliver value to the business
• Provide technical leadership throughout operations, maintaining high standards of tradecraft, operational security and decision-making
• Collaborate with teams across the organisation to maximise operational outcomes and organisational learning
• Manage, coach and develop team members, fostering a culture of technical excellence, continuous improvement and professional conduct

Key requirements

• Significant experience leading complex offensive security operations, ideally within technology or financial services
• Experience leading and developing specialist technical teams
• Excellent communication, organisational and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to identify novel attack paths while maintaining realistic threat emulation
• Strong decision-making skills in ambiguous situations
• Administrator-level knowledge of Windows and Linux environments
• Strong scripting skills in PowerShell, Python or similar, and programming experience in C/C++, Go or C#
• Advanced understanding of offensive security, operational security and defensive technologies
• Ability to think from attacker and defender perspectives to improve security outcomes
• Committed to coaching others and role modelling professional behaviours

• communication
• stakeholder management
• team coaching
• PowerShell
• Python
• C/C++

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