Senior Principal - Red Team Operator

GSK; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

GSK is seeking a Senior Principal Red Team Operator to lead a defined area of the Red Team capability and drive end-to-end offensive security engagements. You will emulate adversaries, observe detection by GSK’s monitors, and deliver actionable improvements across people, processes and technology.

This senior individual contributor role requires technical authority, strong leadership, and a track record of delivering full-lifecycle red team engagements in regulated environments, with a focus on

Qualifications

• Degree in a relevant discipline, or related experience.
• Demonstrated experience in offensive security and red team operations.
• Working knowledge of adversary tradecraft and command and control frameworks.
• Practical experience with full-lifecycle engagement delivery.
• Significant experience in cyber security within the relevant domain.
• Proven experience leading a team or a substantial programme of work.
• Experience managing delivery to plan, quality and timelines.
• Excellent relationship management, influencing and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead a defined area of the Red Team capability, including its people, delivery and outcomes.
• Manage delivery against the capability roadmap and elevate blockers early.
• Develop team capability through coaching, review and structured feedback.
• Represent the area in CSO governance and cross-functional forums.
• Execute red team engagements across networks using real-world attacker tradecraft, from conception to report delivery.
• Emulate real attackers to simulate security incidents, observe responses, and measure detection.
• Develop after-action reports detailing achievements, detections, gaps and changes.
• Build and maintain red team infrastructure with security discipline.
• Develop custom tooling and exploits where off-the-shelf tooling is insufficient.
• Run purple team exercises with the Cyber Defense team to improve detection coverage.

Skills

Offensive security

Red Team operations

Adversary tradecraft

Full lifecycle engagements

Cyber security

Leadership

Delivery management

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant discipline

Tools

MITRE ATT&CK

Active Directory

Cloud attack tooling

Custom offensive tooling

Job description

GSK remains committed to achieving bold commercial ambitions for the future. By 2031, we aim to deliver £40 billion in annual sales, leveraging our existing strong performance momentum to significantly increase our positive impact on the health of billions of patients globally. Our Ahead Together strategy is centred on early intervention to prevent and alter the course of disease, thereby protecting people and supporting healthcare systems.

Our diverse portfolio consists of vaccines, specialty medicines, and general medicines.

Through continuous innovation and a dedicated focus on scientific and technical excellence, we strive to develop and launch new, groundbreaking treatments that address critical health challenges.

Job Purpose:

The Senior Principal Red Team Operator will lead a defined area of the Red Team capability and the team or programme that delivers it. This is a senior individual contributor offensive security role carrying technical authority for red team operations.

About the team:

The Red Team emulates real adversaries against GSK. Operators run full-lifecycle engagements using real-world attacker tradecraft, then measure what GSK’s defenders actually detect and how they respond.

Key responsibilities:

This role will provide you the opportunity to lead key activities to progress your career. These responsibilities include some of the following:

• Lead a defined area of the capability, including its people, delivery and outcomes.
• Manage delivery against the capability roadmap and elevate blockers early.
• Develop team capability through coaching, review and structured feedback.
• Represent the area in CSO governance and cross-functional forums.
• Execute red team engagements across a variety of networks using real-world adversarial tactics, techniques and procedures, from conception through to report delivery.
• Emulate real attackers to simulate security incidents, then observe and measure how GSK’s monitoring and incident response perform.
• Develop after-action reports stating what was achieved, what was detected, what was missed and what should change.
• Build and maintain red team infrastructure, including command and control, redirectors and payload delivery, with operational security discipline.
• Develop custom tooling and exploits where off-the-shelf capability is insufficient or too well signatured.
• Run purple team exercises with the Cyber Defense team to convert findings into detection coverage.

Basic Qualifications:

• Degree in a relevant discipline, or related experience.
• Demonstrated experience in offensive security and red team operations.
• Working knowledge of adversary tradecraft and command and control frameworks.
• Practical experience with full-lifecycle engagement delivery.
• Significant experience in cyber security within the relevant domain.
• Proven experience leading a team or a substantial programme of work.
• Experience managing delivery to plan, quality and timelines.
• Excellent relationship management, influencing and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• OSCP, OSEP, OSED, CRTO, GPEN or GXPN.
• Exploit development capability.
• Active Directory and cloud attack path expertise.
• Experience with detection evasion within an authorised engagement.
• Experience in a regulated industry, including OT and clinical system awareness.
• Relevant certification such as OSCP, OSEP, CRTO, GPEN, GXPN.
• Experience in pharmaceutical, life sciences or another highly regulated industry.
• Typical tools and technologies: command and control frameworks, custom offensive tooling, Active Directory and cloud attack tooling, MITRE ATT&CK.

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Skills

Adversary Simulation, AI for Cybersecurity, AI Frameworks, AI Red Teaming, Cloud Security, Cyber Threat Intelligence, Forensic Data Analysis, Incident Management, Infrastructure Security, Intrusion Detection, Intrusion Prevention, ML Security, Offensive Cyber Operations, Red Teaming, Security Monitoring, Security Planning, Security Protocols, Security Risk, Security Technologies, Tradecraft

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

Inclusion at GSK:

As an employer committed to Inclusion, we encourage you to reach out if you need any adjustments during the recruitment process.

Please contact our Recruitment Team at [e-mail] to discuss your needs.