Cloud Red Team Engineer: Adversary Simulations

Motive; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Motive is seeking a Red Team Security Engineer to serve as the primary security partner for software and engineering teams, focusing on adversary emulation and offensive security across cloud environments. You will drive remediation efforts and ensure robust security posture across IAM, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud services.

You will plan and execute red team operations, evaluate cloud infrastructure security, and produce concise, actionable reports for diverse stakeholders, contributing to a

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in offensive security, red teaming, penetration testing, and detection validation.
• Familiarity with attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures and mapping findings to MITRE ATT&CK.
• Ability to write concise, actionable reports and communicate complex technical issues to diverse stakeholders.
• Relevant industry certifications such as OSCP, OSEP, GXPN, GPEN, or cloud security certifications.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute red team operations, adversary simulations, and targeted security assessments focused on cloud environments.
• Evaluate the security of cloud infrastructure, identity architectures, CI/CD pipelines, containerized workloads, and cloud-native services.
• Identify and validate attack paths involving IAM misconfigurations, overprivileged roles, secrets exposure, metadata abuse, insecure automation, and weaknesses in cloud service configurations.
• Assess detection and response coverage by exercising logging, alerting, monitoring, and incident response processes in partnership with blue team and detection engineering functions.
• Track emerging attacker techniques, cloud exploitation trends, and new abuse paths relevant to modern enterprise environments.

Skills

Offensive security

Red teaming

Penetration testing

Detection validation

Threat emulation

Tools

MITRE ATT&CK

Job description

Motive is seeking a Red Team Security Engineer to serve as the primary security partner for software and engineering teams, focusing on adversary emulation and offensive security across cloud environments. You will drive remediation efforts and ensure robust security posture across IAM, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud services.

You will plan and execute red team operations, evaluate cloud infrastructure security, and produce concise, actionable reports for diverse stakeholders, contributing to a