Executive Red Team Lead - Adversary Simulation

NCC Group; Manchester; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Working

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Medicash & Critical Illness Scheme

Pension, Life Assurance & Share Save

Volunteer Programmes

Green Car Scheme

Cycle Scheme

Special Time Off for major life events

Job summary

NCC Group in Manchester is seeking an Executive Principal Consultant to lead advanced Red Team engagements across the attack lifecycle, partnering with clients to simulate adversaries and test defenses.

You will mentor junior consultants, shape tooling and methodologies, and communicate risk and remediation insights to technical and C-level audiences within a global security practice.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering high-complexity Red Team engagements end-to-end.
• Deep understanding of the adversary lifecycle and TTPs.
• Familiarity with evasion techniques and bypassing controls such as EDR/EPP, email/web gateways, proxies.
• Experience in stakeholder engagement, with the ability to brief both security professionals and executive stakeholders.
• Excellent written English and ability to create structured, compelling reporting documents.

Responsibilities

• Engagement Delivery: design, plan, and execute advanced adversary simulations aligned with standards and regulatory frameworks.
• Maintain operational security and risk mitigation throughout delivery.
• Communicate risks and safety concerns to clients clearly and proactively.
• Use off-the-shelf and custom-built tools to achieve objectives and evade detection.
• Create and maintain custom scripts or tools to automate Red Team activities.

Skills

High-complexity Red Team engagements

Adversary lifecycle & TTPs

EDR/EPP evasion

Stakeholder engagement

Written English reporting

Active Directory

Office 365 security

Cloud security (AWS/Azure/GCP)

MacOS environments

Red Team tooling development

Tools

Red Team tooling development

Job description

NCC Group in Manchester is seeking an Executive Principal Consultant to lead advanced Red Team engagements across the attack lifecycle, partnering with clients to simulate adversaries and test defenses.

You will mentor junior consultants, shape tooling and methodologies, and communicate risk and remediation insights to technical and C-level audiences within a global security practice.