Assistant Vice President, Red Team Operator

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 150,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

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Main Purpose of the Role:

• As a Global Red Team Senior Operator at the Vice President level, you will lead and shape advanced adversary simulation exercises that rigorously test and enhance MUFG’s global security posture.
• This role is designed for seasoned offensive security professionals with deep technical expertise and a passion for mentoring and developing junior talent.
• You will drive complex Red Team operations, collaborate across threat intelligence and detection engineering teams, and influence strategic improvements in detection and response capabilities across the enterprise.
• To ensure effective management and control of information security, IT and information risk for MUSI and EMEA Bank by ensuring all appropriate Security, IT and common-sense controls are in place.
• The role will involve liaising with other information security functions within the MUS international business and MUFG group to ensure a consistent approach to all controls, standards and policies is adopted across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, planning, and execution of sophisticated Red Team engagements simulating advanced persistent threats across global enterprise environments.
• Develop and refine Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) aligned with MITRE ATT&CK to challenge and validate detection and response mechanisms.
• Conduct advanced adversary emulation, lateral movement, privilege escalation, and persistence operations in diverse environments.
• Reverse engineer proof-of-concept exploits and assess their relevance and impact within MUFG’s infrastructure.
• Partner with Blue Team, Detection Engineering, and Threat Intelligence to validate findings and enhance detection logic and response workflows.
• Deliver clear, actionable reporting of findings, attack paths, and remediation strategies to both technical and executive stakeholders.
• Lead the development and maintenance of internal Red Team tools, scripts, and infrastructure to support scalable operations.
• Stay at the forefront of emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and offensive security methodologies to inform team strategy and tooling.
• Collaborate with blue team and selected vendor or with Global red team to plan and execute annual purple team testing.
• Implement and maintain governance of any assessments finding remediation progress and create regular reporting for tech and executives.
• Collaborating with other technology teams to develop and improve defensive strategies and security measures to prevent real-world attacks.
• Create executive report from technical assessment report.
• Support Information Security incidents where requested.
• Manage grey and black box testing solution including identified threats and vulnerabilities.