About this role
Salary: £44,000 - 76,000 per year
Requirements: Extensive experience leading Red Team, Purple Team and adversary emulation functions within a large and complex organisation.Demonstrable expertise in planning and delivering sophisticated intelligence-led attack simulations.Strong understanding of adversary tactics, techniques and procedures, threat-led testing methodologies and offensive security tooling, including C2 frameworks, malware and evasion techniques.Ability to conduct targeted, covert tests including identifying vulnerabilities, exploiting them, and performing post-exploitation activities, without needing to rely heavily on tools.Experience building, developing and leading high-performing technical teams.Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership.Passion for cyber security research, continuous learning and advancing offensive security practices.Recognised offensive security certifications such as CREST, CRTO, GIAC, OSCP, OSCE or equivalent.Software development, automation or engineering experience in any low level or high-level language (C#, C++, C, Python, Bash Scripting, Java, Rust, etc.).Experience within financial services or other highly regulated environments.Degree or postgraduate qualification in Cyber Security, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.Familiarity with AI-enabled security testing, attack simulation frameworks and modern security engineering practices. Responsibilities: Draw on extensive hands-on adversary emulation experience to shape testing strategy, guide the execution of sophisticated Red Team and Purple Team operations, and ensure the delivery of realistic, threat-led assessments that provide impactful insights into our cyber resilience.Lead, mentor and develop a high-performing team of Red Team and Purple Team specialists, fostering a culture of technical excellence, continuous improvement, innovation and knowledge sharing.Define and carry out the AIT roadmap, ensuring alignment to CSO and wider Group security objectives.Build strong relationships with stakeholders across the Chief Security Office and wider organisation, communicating security risks, testing outcomes and strategic recommendations to audiences ranging from technical practitioners to executives.Drive security improvement by translating testing outputs into measurable risk reduction, partnering with collaborators to prioritise and remediate findings at pace. Technologies: AIBashC#JavaPythonRustSecuritySupport More:
We are Lloyds Banking Group and our Chief Security Office is transforming how security is delivered across the Group. This is a pivotal opportunity to lead and evolve our Adversary Emulation capability as an Advanced Intrusion Testing Lead. The role is based in Manchester, Bristol, Edinburgh or London, with a hybrid working pattern of at least two days per week, or 40% of your time, in the office. We offer a wide-ranging benefits package including a generous pension contribution of up to 15%, an annual performance-related bonus, share schemes including free shares, adaptable lifestyle benefits such as discounted shopping, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays, and a range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies. We are investing in our people, data and tech, and we are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, creating an environment where our colleagues can thrive, learn and develop while helping Britain prosper.
last updated 36 week of 2026