Senior Adversary Emulation Lead: Red & Purple Team

Lloyds Banking Group; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension contribution up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

Discounted shopping

30 days' holiday plus bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives and parental le​

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking an experienced Advanced Intrusion Testing Lead to guide adversary emulation and oversee red team and purple team activities across the Group. You will lead a skilled team, shape testing strategy and drive threat-led assessments that inform cyber resilience at scale.

You will mentor leaders, align the AIT roadmap with CSO goals, and communicate risk insights to technical and executive audiences, fostering continuous improvement and security maturity.

Qualifications

• Leadership of Red Team, Purple Team and adversary emulation in a large organisation
• Intelligence-led attack simulations experience
• Knowledge of adversary tactics, techniques and procedures and threat-led testing
• Ability to lead and develop high-performing technical teams
• Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication
• Experience in regulated financial services environments

Responsibilities

• Shape testing strategy and guide Red Team and Purple Team operations
• Lead and mentor a high-performing team of specialists
• Define and carry out the Advanced Intrusion Testing roadmap aligned to CSO objectives
• Build relationships across the CSO and wider organisation to communicate risks and outcomes
• Translate testing outputs into measurable risk reduction and remediation priorities

Skills

Adversary emulation

Red Team leadership

Purple Team leadership

Threat-led testing

Offensive security tooling

C2 frameworks

Malware evasion

Post-exploitation

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Education

Degree in Cyber Security or Computer Science

Tools

C2 frameworks

Malware evasion tooling

Job description

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking an experienced Advanced Intrusion Testing Lead to guide adversary emulation and oversee red team and purple team activities across the Group. You will lead a skilled team, shape testing strategy and drive threat-led assessments that inform cyber resilience at scale.

You will mentor leaders, align the AIT roadmap with CSO goals, and communicate risk insights to technical and executive audiences, fostering continuous improvement and security maturity.