Senior Red Team Analyst

Manpower UK; Lytham St Annes; Hybride; GBP 54 000 - 66 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Manpower UK is seeking a Senior Red Team Analyst for a predominantly remote role based in the United Kingdom. The position offers two days onsite per month and a negotiable salary up to £60,000, plus bonus and benefits.

The role focuses on testing security controls, validating SOC detection capabilities, and providing assurance to Cyber Operations leadership. You will lead red team activities, conduct penetration testing, and produce comprehensive reports for internal audiences, while keeping

Qualifications

• Proven penetration testing experience with infrastructure and web apps.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to assess security controls.
• Excellent report writing abilities for internal stakeholders.
• Solid understanding of security monitoring and threat detection practices.

Responsabilités

• Continually test and validate security controls and SOC detection capabilities.
• Support red team exercises and perform penetration testing.
• Produce accurate reports for internal audiences and coordinate with resolver groups.
• Identify weaknesses and misconfigurations and ensure proper remediation.
• Contribute to Red Team service development and stay updated on threat landscape.

Connaissances

Red Team testing

Penetration testing

Security testing

Report writing

Security monitoring

Infrastructure & web app security

Outils

Kali Linux

Parrot OS

Description du poste

This permanent Senior Red Team Analyst position with Manpower UK is based in Lytham St. Annes, offering a mostly remote working pattern of two days onsite per month and a negotiable salary of up to £60,000 plus bonus and benefits.

The postholder will continually test and validate security controls and SOC detection capabilities, assuring leadership that defensive measures withstand evolving threats.

Core duties include supporting red team exercises, critical control testing, cyber hygiene assessments and penetration testing, alongside producing accurate reports for internal audiences.

Candidates should demonstrate strong analytical skills, penetration testing experience, report writing ability and a sound understanding of security monitoring.

The role contributes to departmental objectives while upholding high security standards throughout.

Senior Red Team Analyst Mostly Remote(2 Days onsite p/m) Up to £60k + Bonus/Benefits

The Role:

You will be responsible for the continual testing and validation of security controls and SOC detection capabilities, providing assurance that defensive measures remain effective against evolving threats.

The role contributes to the achievement of organisational and departmental objectives while maintaining high security standards and providing assurance to Cyber Operations leadership on the effectiveness of security monitoring and detection capabilities.

Core duties:

• Support the Red Team with the following activities; Red Team Exercises, Critical Control Testing, Cyber Hygiene Assessments and Penetration Testing
• Develop comprehensive and accurate reports for internal audiences, ensuring the grading of vulnerabilities within the context of BAE Systems, and passing onto resolver groups for resolution.
• Ensures resolution is being conducted in line with documented process
• Identify security weaknesses and misconfigurations to ensure they are raised with the appropriate resolver groups
• Contributes to the development of Red Team services through people, process, and technology where appropriate
• Maintains a broad understanding of the external threat environment and attacker tactics, techniques, and procedure

Essential Skills:

• Proven experience in both infrastructure and web application security testing utilising proven testing methodologies
• Demonstrable experience with open-source security testing tools such as Kali and Parrot operating systems
• An understanding of software engineering principles
• Confident in delivering comprehensive and accurate security testing reports for internal audiences and delivering briefings on the outcome if required
• Broad and detailed experience of technologies including but not limited to firewalls, IDS/IPS, Active Directory, endpoint protection, Windows Server, Linux, TCP/IP, Networks, Cloud, CDN''s and Vulnerability Management