Executive Principle Consultant - Red Team

NCC Group; Madrid; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Pension

Life Assurance

Share Save Scheme

Maternity leave

Paternity leave

Employee Referral Program

Well-being initiatives

Learning & Development

Job summary

NCC Group is seeking an Executive Principal Consultant to lead high-end Red Team engagements from Madrid, spanning initial access to objective completion while ensuring safety and confidentiality. You’ll mentor staff, contribute to tooling, and engage with C-level clients to articulate risk and actionable guidance.

In this role, you’ll drive capability development in regulated and bespoke assessments, collaborate with stakeholders, and help clients understand, detect, and respond to

Qualifications

• Role requires senior Red Teaming expertise and ability to lead engagements end-to-end.
• Experience designing and delivering adversary simulations across critical sectors.
• Ability to evade controls and navigate defensive environments.
• Strong client-facing and executive stakeholder engagement skills.
• Report writing that balances narrative with technical accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Design, plan, and execute Red Team and adversary simulation engagements across key sectors.
• Lead debriefs with technical and executive audiences and translate attack paths into actionable insights.
• Mentor rising talent and contribute to tooling and methodologies.
• Represent NCC Group in client-facing engagements including with C-level stakeholders.

Skills

Adversary simulations

EDR evasion

Leadership

Executive briefs

Report writing

Microsoft AD

Office 365

AWS

Azure

GCP

MacOS

Tools

Automation tooling

Job description

Executive Principal Consultant - Red Team

Department: Cyber Services and Capabilities

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: ESP Madrid

Description

Role Purpose As an Executive Principal Consultant within the Red Teaming practice, you'll take a leading role in delivering high-end adversary simulation engagements for clients with mature security postures and critical risk profiles. You'll operate across the entire attack lifecycle—from initial access and evasion of EDR, through lateral movement and objective completion while ensuring the safety, confidentiality, and operational integrity of every engagement.

You'll also contribute to our capability development, tooling, and methodologies, while mentoring the next generation of Red Teamers and representing NCC Group in client-facing engagements, including with C-level stakeholders.

This role is central to advancing NCC Group's offensive security capability while helping our clients understand, detect, and respond to sophisticated threats in real-world scenarios.

Key Accountabilities

You'll lead the design, planning, and execution of Red Team and adversary simulation engagements across critical sectors such as financial services, government, and defence. These operations will align with frameworks such as CBEST, TIBER, CORIE, and more. You'll also build strong stakeholder relationships, lead debriefs with both technical and executive audiences, and translate complex attack paths into clear, actionable insight.

Over the next 12 24 months, you'll establish yourself as a senior authority in the Red Teaming space, contribute to tooling and methodology development, mentor rising talent, and play an active role in growing our capability in both regulated and bespoke assessments.

Skills

You are an experienced operator who combines deep technical expertise with strong client-facing and leadership skills. You're comfortable running complex operations end-to-end and enjoy mentoring others while staying hands-on.

We'd love to see experience in:

• Designing and delivering complex adversary simulations
• Evading controls such as EDR/EPP and navigating defensive environments
• Microsoft AD, Office 365, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), MacOS
• Stakeholder engagement, including executive-level briefings
• Report writing that balances narrative flow and technical accuracy

Desirable:

• Familiarity with CBEST, TIBER, CORIE, AASE, iCAST, FEER
• Experience building tools or automation for Red Team use
• Understanding of cybersecurity frameworks and regulatory standards

Certifications required:

• CREST CCT-INF is desired
• CREST CCSAS or CREST CCSAM is highly desired.

What do we Offer in Return?

We have a high-performance culture which is balanced evenly with world-class well-being initiatives and benefits:

Flexible working

Financial & Investment

• Pension
• Life Assurance
• Share Save Scheme
• Maternity & Paternity leave

Employee Referral Program

Lifestyle & Wellness

Learning & Development