Red Team Operator

About This Role

Join Swift's Red Team as an Operator to plan and execute intelligence-driven Red Team operations, simulating criminal, nation-state, and insider threats. This role focuses on understanding attacker mindsets to identify weaknesses and enhance defensive capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute exploitation scenarios against network, application, mobile, and wireless environments with assistance from senior team members and little to no supervision
• Translate threat intelligence into realistic attack scenarios, mapping campaigns to specific threat actor groups
• Stay current on emerging offensive security techniques
• Continually evolve existing Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) in use by the Red Team to match TTPs used by real-world adversaries
• Conduct phishing and OSINT-driven social engineering campaigns
• Develop and refine payloads and attack paths across Swift infrastructure
• Link technical exploitation to risks associated with the business
• Conduct physical security assessments, including RF site surveys and attempts to circumvent physical security controls
• Share techniques, lessons learned, and tool improvements with peers
• Support Purple Teaming activities by working closely with the Security Operations Centre (SOC) to identify and help remediate detection gaps

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security, or a related field
• 2-5 years of relevant work experience in Penetration Testing or Red Team operations
• Ability to chain vulnerabilities to achieve privilege escalation and lateral movement
• Ability to document technical details clearly for senior review
• Strong knowledge of common technologies within an enterprise environment (e.g., Windows, Active Directory, Linux, cloud environments)
• Strong desire to continually learn and obtain new skills

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security, or a related field
• 2 to 5 years of relevant work experience in Penetration Testing or Red Team operations

Nice to Have

• Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) or higher Offsec certification
• Certified Red Team Operator (CRTO)
• SANS GXPN

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits