Executive Red Team Lead – Adversary Simulations

NCC Group; Cheltenham; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Working

Generous Holiday Allowance: 25 days +

Medicash & Critical Illness Scheme

Pension, Life Assurance & Share Save

Cycle Scheme

Green Car Scheme

Volunteer opportunities

Job summary

NCC Group is seeking an Executive Principal Consultant to lead Red Team engagements, capably delivering adversary simulations end-to-end for clients with mature security postures. You will mentor junior consultants, contribute to tooling and capability development, and present findings to C-level stakeholders in a client-facing role.

You’ll drive engagement planning, risk mitigation, and reporting, while staying current with evolving threat techniques and regulatory guidance across UK and

Qualifications

• Deliver high-complexity Red Team engagements end-to-end.
• Deep understanding of 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.
• Proficiency across multiple relevant technical domains: Active Directory, Office 365 security, Cloud security (AWS, Azure, GCP), MacOS.

Responsibilities

• Design, plan, and execute advanced adversary simulations and Red Team engagements aligned with industry standards and regulatory frameworks.
• Maintain strong focus on operational security and risk mitigation.
• 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.
• Produce high-quality, narrative-driven reports for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Deliver detailed debriefs and presentations to security teams and C-level stakeholders.
• Translate complex attack chains into engaging, informative documentation.
• Work autonomously on smaller engagements and collaboratively on large-scale assessments.
• Build strong relationships with clients and internal teams.
• Support sales and scoping activities in pre-sales conversations.
• Share knowledge and develop internal Red Team capabilities through tooling contributions and process improvements.

Skills

Red Teaming

Threat Emulation

Stakeholder Engagement

Executive Reporting

EDR Evasion

Capability Development

Mentorship

Threat Modeling

Education

CREST CCSAS / CCRTS

CREST CCSAM / CCRTM

Tools

Custom tooling

Custom scripting

Job description

NCC Group is seeking an Executive Principal Consultant to lead Red Team engagements, capably delivering adversary simulations end-to-end for clients with mature security postures. You will mentor junior consultants, contribute to tooling and capability development, and present findings to C-level stakeholders in a client-facing role.

You’ll drive engagement planning, risk mitigation, and reporting, while staying current with evolving threat techniques and regulatory guidance across UK and