Senior Consultant, Red Team, Offensive Security

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Our Offensive Security professionals are on a mission to make the world a safer place one company at a time. We help our clients discover understand and remediate security risks across their networks systems applications cloud environments and identity platforms. Our clients trust us to use advanced offensive security tools creativity imagination and expert knowledge to identify realistic attack paths and improve cyber resilience.

We are looking to grow our UK Red Team capability with a Senior Consultant / L3 Red Team Operator. Our expertise in red team operations purple team engagements assumed-breach testing adversary emulation and threat intelligence-led penetration testing is in high demand. Our collaborative ties to our forensic and incident response team detection engineering team threat intelligence team and wider Cyber Risk practice enable us to deliver high-impact offensive security engagements for clients across a range of sectors.

This role will be based in the UK.

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What youll do

As a Senior Consultant Red Team Operator you will support the delivery of complex red team purple team assumed-breach and adversary emulation engagements. You will work with clients to understand their environments help define realistic attack objectives develop attack paths and execute authorised offensive security activity within agreed rules of engagement.

You will be expected to operate across a range of attack surfaces including enterprise networks Active Directory Microsoft Entra ID Microsoft 365 cloud platforms endpoints externally exposed services and where authorised social engineering scenarios. You will also help clients understand the business impact of identified attack paths and provide clear actionable recommendations to improve prevention detection and response.

In summary you will:

• Deliver red team purple team assumed-breach and adversary emulation engagements for clients across multiple sectors

• Support engagement planning including threat-informed scenarios attack objectives rules of engagement operational security considerations and success criteria

• Execute hands-on offensive activity across enterprise environments including Active Directory exploitation credential access privilege escalation lateral movement and objective-based testing

• Assess and exploit attack paths across Microsoft Entra ID Microsoft 365 hybrid identity environments AWS Azure GCP and other cloud platforms where in scope

• Build adapt and operate red team infrastructure command-and-control tooling payloads and scripts during authorised client engagements

• Apply detection-aware tradecraft and understand how EDR SIEM identity protection conditional access email security and network monitoring can affect red team operations

• Support purple team engagements by executing agreed TTPs working with client security teams validating detection logic and helping clients improve response capability

• Conduct authorised social engineering activity including reconnaissance phishing vishing pretext development and controlled initial access scenarios

• Conduct research and development to improve Krolls red team tooling tradecraft methodology and reporting

• Produce clear evidence-based reporting that explains attack paths business impact detection and response observations and prioritised remediation actions

• Present technical findings to security teams and communicate business risk to senior stakeholders

• Mentor junior consultants support technical delivery and contribute to peer review and quality assurance

• Work collaboratively with Krolls wider Cyber Risk teams including incident response threat intelligence cloud security and detection engineering

What youll need to succeed

• 5 years in offensive cybersecurity including experience delivering red team purple team adversary emulation or assumed-breach engagements

• Existing SC clearance or the ability and willingness to obtain SC clearance

• A relevant CREST red team certification aligned to CBEST-style delivery such as CREST Certified Red Team Specialist formerly CCSAS or the ability to obtain this within the probation period

• Strong experience with Windows enterprise environments Active Directory exploitation privilege escalation and lateral movement

• Experienced and comfortable with performing social engineering techniques in support of red team operations including email and voice phishing

• Experience operating command-and-control frameworks such as Mythic Cobalt Strike or similar tooling in authorised client engagements

• Experience developing modifying or extending offensive security tooling scripts or payloads

• Working knowledge of at least one of C C# Python PowerShell and/or JavaScript to support offensive security objectives

• Practical understanding of evasion techniques endpoint security controls operational security and detection-aware tradecraft

• Strong understanding of networking and web protocols including TCP/IP DNS HTTP HTTPS and authentication flows

• Experience conducting reconnaissance attack path development and objective-based testing

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical issues clearly to technical and non-technical audiences

• The ability to manage risk during live client engagements and operate within agreed rules of engagement

Nice to have

• CREST Certified Red Team Specialist OSEP OSCE3 CRTO CRTL GPEN GXPN or equivalent experience

• Experience delivering CBEST STAR-FS TIBER DORA-aligned TLPT or regulated financial-sector red team engagements

• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID Microsoft 365 and hybrid identity attack paths

• Working knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS Azure or GCP including identity privilege escalation misconfiguration abuse and cloud-native attack paths

• Experience with exploit development reverse engineering malware analysis or assembly-level debugging

• Experience with macOS or Linux endpoint tradecraft

• Experience with Kubernetes Docker CI/CD platforms DevOps environments or containerised workloads

• Experience with physical security

• Experience with employing modern AI tooling to support offensive engagements

• Threat intelligence detection engineering or incident response experience

• Experience writing blogs presenting at industry events publishing research or contributing to offensive security tooling

• Experience leading small teams or technical workstreams during complex offensive security engagements

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