Managing Security Consultant - Red Team

NCC Group; Madrid; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Life Assurance

Share Save Scheme

Maternity & Paternity leave

Flexible working

Financial & Investment benefits

Employee Referral Program

Lifestyle & Wellness

Job summary

NCC Group is seeking a Managing Security Consultant within the Red Teaming practice. You will lead design, planning, and execution of high-end adversary simulations across critical sectors, aligning with CBEST, TIBER, CORIE and more, while mentoring rising talent and maturing NCC Group’s offensive security capabilities.

You’ll build stakeholder relationships, brief executives, and translate complex attack paths into clear insights, helping clients understand, detect, and respond to sophisticated

Qualifications

• Experience delivering complex adversary simulations.
• Strong client-facing and leadership skills.
• Ability to run end-to-end red team engagements.
• Mentoring junior team members and contributing to capability development.

Responsibilities

• Design, plan, and execute Red Team engagements across sectors.
• Lead debriefs with technical and executive audiences.
• Translate attack paths into actionable insights and reports.
• Mentor rising talent and grow capability in regulated and bespoke assessments.

Skills

Red Team leadership

Adversary simulations

EDR/EPP evasion

Microsoft AD

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Executive stakeholder engagement

Technical report writing

Tools

Red Team tooling

Job description

Managing Security Consultant - Red Team

Department: Cyber Services and Capabilities

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: ESP Madrid

Description

As a Managing 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.

What do we Offer in Return?

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

• Pension
• Life Assurance
• Share Save Scheme
• Maternity & Paternity leave
• Flexible working
• Financial & Investment
• Employee Referral Program
• Lifestyle & Wellness
• Learning & Development