Red Team Security Consultant

We are specifically seeking someone with outstanding operational experience - a practitioner who excels in live operations, complex attack chains, stealthy execution, and delivering intelligence-led adversarial engagements at the highest level. In this senior position, you will conduct complex Red Team operations, adversary simulations, and intelligence-led threat exercises across enterprise environments., * Lead Red Team engagements, TIBER-EU and CBEST testing.

• Develop advanced threat scenarios and attack chains.
• Build offensive tooling, malware, implants, and C2 frameworks.
• Execute stealthy lateral movement, privilege escalation, EDR evasion.
• Operate across cloud and hybrid infrastructures.
• Provide consultancy, risk translation, and uplift strategies.
• Contribute to R&D projects, PoC tooling, exploit development.

You will be an exceptional offensive security professional with outstanding proven operational-level experience in delivering complex Red Team and adversarial engagements. You must demonstrate a solid understanding of modern endpoint detection technologies and maintain a strong OPSEC-driven mindset - ensuring disciplined, stealthy execution throughout all stages of an engagement.

Expertise in:

• TIBER-EU, CBEST.
• Adversarial tradecraft, OPSEC, stealth ops.
• Active Directory exploitation, cloud attack paths.
• C, C++, C#, .NET, Python.
• C2 frameworks such as Cobalt Strike, Sliver, Mythic.

Additional Desired Experience:

• Public talks, conference presentations, or notable Red Team-related research projects (e.g., open-source tooling or contributions hosted on GitHub)

Required & Valued Certifications

• OSEP - Offensive Security Experienced Penetration Tester
• OSCE / OSCE³ - Offensive Security Certified Expert / Expert³
• OSEE - Offensive Security Exploit Expert
• OSCP - Offensive Security Certified Professional
• OSWE - Offensive Security Web Expert
• OSED - Offensive Security Exploit Developer
• CCSAS - CREST Certified Simulated Attack Specialist
• CRT - CREST Registered Penetration Tester
• CCT INF / CCT APP - CREST Certified Tester (Infrastructure / Applications)
• GPEN - GIAC Penetration Tester
• GXPN - GIAC Exploit Researcher & Advanced Penetration Tester
• CRTO - Certified Red Team Operator

Exceptional consulting capability, communication, analysis, collaboration, OPSEC discipline.

Security Requirements Legal right to work in UK/EU. Must undergo background checks.

What We Offer £85,000 - £105,000 + bonus, remote-first, occasional travel, elite team environment, R&D time.

About Adecco Adecco is acting as an Employment Agency. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We are on the client's supplier list for this position.

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This is an attractive opportunity for a Senior Red Team Security Consultant to join a prestigious and prominent cyber security organisation, home to some of the sharpest minds in the industry - absolute specialists in adversarial simulation, offensive security, and threat-driven testing.