Red Team Operator

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Swift · Culpeper

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About the role

We're the world's leading provider of secure financial messaging services, headquartered in Belgium. We are the way the world moves value - across borders, through cities and overseas. No other organisation can address the scale, precision, pace and trust that this demands, and we're proud to support the global economy. We're unique too. We were established to find a better way for the global financial community to move value - a reliable, safe and secure approach that the community can trust, completely. We're always striving to be better and are constantly evolving in an ever-changing landscape, without undermining that trust. Five decades on, our vibrant community reflects the complexity and diversity of the financial ecosystem. We innovate diligently, test exhaustively, then implement fast. In a connected and exciting era, our mission has never been more relevant. Swift now has a presence in 200+ countries and legal territories to serve a community of more than 12,000 banks and financial institutions. Swift is unable to sponsor an employment authorization for this position now or in the future.

Responsibilities

In this role you will:

Red Team Operations & Campaign participation

Be an active participant in end-to-end adversary simulations across enterprise, cloud, and hybrid infrastructures

Provide input to planning complex Red Team engagements from reconnaissance and initial access through persistence, lateral movement, and data exfiltration

Execute network, application, wireless, physical, and cloud penetration tests

Build, operate, and maintain Red Team infrastructure, including command-and-control (C2) ecosystems, phishing platforms and operational security (OPSEC) tooling

Develop and operationalize custom tooling, payloads, automation and exploitation chains

Research and implement advanced evasion techniques against SIEM, EDR, and XDR platforms

Ensure operational realism, safety, and compliance with internal policy, legal constraints, and regulatory requirements

Align Red Team operations with the MITRE ATT&CK framework and threat-led testing standards (e.g., TIBER)

Collaboration & Strategic Enablement

Partner with SOC, Threat Intelligence, Risk Management, and Engineering teams to strengthen detection and response maturity

Mentor and develop junior team members, sharing techniques, lessons learned, and tooling improvements

Interpret technical exploitation in the context of business risk, control effectiveness, and defensive improvement

Communicate technical risk clearly to security leadership and key stakeholders

Produce high-quality After-Action Reports (AARs), executive summaries, and technical documentation

What Success Looks Like in This Role

Actively participate in Red Team engagements independently and as part of a broader campaign strategy

Delivers realistic adversary simulations that measurably improve detection and response maturity

Builds and maintains resilient, covert Red Team infrastructure and tooling ecosystems

Develops novel exploitation techniques that stress modern defensive controls

Produces clear, actionable reports aligned to business risk and regulatory expectations

What will make you successful:

We are seeking professionals with:

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

5+ years of relevant experience

Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) or similar certifications

Strong desire to learn and continually evolve both self and team

Proven experience executing Red Team operations and adversary simulations

Advanced skills across network, application, cloud, wireless, and hybrid penetration testing

Strong understanding of the exploitation lifecycle (reconnaissance, initial access, persistence, privilege escalation, lateral movement, data exfiltration)

Experience with Active Directory exploitation, Linux privilege escalation, kernel-level techniques, and cloud identity systems

Ability to chain vulnerabilities and bypass modern endpoint detection technologies

Proficiency with common Red Team tooling, including C2 frameworks, scanners, phishing platforms, and OPSEC tooling

Familiarity with the MITRE ATT&CK framework and adversary emulation methodologies

Strong technical writing and reporting capabilities

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