Red Team Operator

JP Morgan; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global financial institution seeks an experienced Red Team Operator to enhance cybersecurity measures. The role involves conducting covert assessments and collaborating with teams to improve security methodologies. Candidates should have extensive experience with red teaming and strong communication skills. This position provides an opportunity to contribute significantly to the firm's security posture and engage with cutting-edge technologies.

Benefits

Competitive benefits and compensation

Professional growth opportunities

Diverse workspace environment

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in delivering covert red teaming using industry-standard tools.
• Demonstrable expertise in one or more security domains.
• Ability to identify systemic security or resiliency issues.
• Excellent communication and report writing skills.

Responsibilities

• Conduct multi-month, covert red team assessments.
• Develop and enhance assessment methodologies and frameworks.
• Collaborate to develop comprehensive assessment reports.

Skills

Covert red teaming

Network exploitation

Communication skills

Collaboration

Threat intelligence

Tools

Cobalt Strike

Various C2 frameworks

Job description

Description:

JPMC's Assurance Operations organization is looking to expand its Cybersecurity Red Team with an experienced Red Team Operator. The successful candidate will have a proven track record in conducting red team or network exploitation operations, and be able to demonstrate in-depth knowledge and experience around computer networking fundamentals, modern threats and vulnerabilities, attack methodologies, and red teaming tools.

As an Assessments & Exercises Senior Associate in the Cybersecurity and Technology Controls line of business, you will make significant contributions to enhancing the firm's cybersecurity posture by using industry-standard assessment methodologies and techniques to proactively identify risks and vulnerabilities in people, processes, and technology. In this role, you will design and execute Red Team assessments to evaluate preventative controls, incident response processes, and detection capabilities, and advise cross-functional teams on security strategy and risk management.

This position is anticipated to require the use of one or more High Risk Role (HRR) systems, which mandates successful completion of enhanced screening, including criminal and credit background checks, before starting employment and annually thereafter.

Job responsibilities

• Conduct multi-month, covert red team assessments against JPMC and its subsidiaries to evaluate existing controls for effectiveness and impact on operational risk
• Contribute to the development and enhancement of assessment methodologies, tools, and frameworks to strengthen the firm's security posture
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to develop comprehensive assessment reports - including detailed findings, risk assessments, and remediation recommendations - making data-driven decisions that encourage continuous improvement
• Utilize threat intelligence and security research to stay informed about emerging threats, vulnerabilities, industry best practices, and regulations. Apply this knowledge to enhance the firm's assessment strategy and risk management. Engage with peers and industry groups that share threat intelligence analytics

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 3+ years of experience in delivering covert red teaming, purple teaming, or network exploitation operations using industry-standard tools (e.g., Cobalt Strike or other C2 frameworks), with awareness of op-sec considerations and detection evasion
• Demonstrable expertise in one or more security domains (e.g., exploitation of networks, operating systems, applications, cloud and DevOps security, Active Directory, physical security, or social engineering)
• Ability to identify systemic security or resiliency issues as they relate to threats, vulnerabilities, or risks, with a focus on recommendations for enhancements or remediation
• Experience with developing custom implants, loaders, or post-exploitation tools for covert red team engagements
• Demonstrate an active interest in the offensive security community (e.g., via a blog, attending or speaking at conferences, or contributing to open-source tools)
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and report writing skills, with the ability to influence and engage stakeholders across various functions and levels including senior leadership
• Ability to collaborate with high-performing global teams and individuals throughout the firm to accomplish common goals

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Preferred qualifications include: Intelligence Community background, relevant hands‑on certifications such as those offered by Offensive Security, CREST, and SANS
• Experience with coding and developing new offensive security tools or proof-of-concept exploits, or modifying existing internal or open-source tooling
• Experience operating within financial services environments and knowledge of sector-related cybersecurity or resiliency organization practices, operations risk management processes, principles, regulations, threats, risks, and incident response methodologies
• Experience delivering regulatory-driven red team testing such as CBEST, TIBER, and iCAST
• Experience of targeting cloud-based environments such as Azure and AWS, and technologies such as Kubernetes
• Experience applying AI/ML techniques such as deepfakes and prompt injection

The Cybersecurity & Technology Controls group at JPMorganChase aligns the firm's cybersecurity, access management, controls and resiliency teams. The group proactively and strategically partners with all lines of business and functions to enable them to design, adopt and integrate appropriate controls; deliver processes and solutions efficiently and consistently; and drive automation of controls. The group's number one priority is to enable the business by keeping the firm safe, stable and resilient.

We are looking for multi-disciplined forward-looking technologists like you with diverse backgrounds and experiences including in areas such as cybersecurity, big data, machine learning risk management and controls, compliance and oversight, and cloud security.

When you work at JPMorganChase, you're not just working at a global financial institution. You're an integral part of one of the world's biggest tech companies. In 14 technology hubs worldwide, our team of 60,000+ technologists design, build and deploy everything from enterprise technology initiatives to big data and mobile solutions, as well as innovations in electronic payments, cybersecurity, machine learning, and cloud development. Our $15B+ annual investment in technology enables us to hire people to create innovative solutions that will not only transform the financial services industry, but also change the world.

At JPMorganChase. we value the unique skills of every employee, and we're building a technology organization that thrives on diversity. We encourage professional growth and career development, and offer competitive benefits and compensation. If you're looking to build your career as part of a global technology team tackling big challenges that impact the lives of people and companies all around the world, we want to meet you.