Assistant Vice President, Red Team Operator in London

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count? 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.

With a vision to be the world's most trusted financial group, it's part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career. Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.

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.

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 (i.e. infra, app and etc) 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.
• Availability for out-of-hours support when necessary.

Skills and Experience:

• 5–7 years of experience in information security or IT, with at least 3 years focused on Red Team operations or offensive security.
• Demonstrated experience conducting Red Team or advanced penetration testing engagements.
• Familiarity with C2 frameworks (e.g., Cobalt Strike, Mythic, Sliver), evasion techniques, and post-exploitation tooling.
• Proficient in scripting or programming languages (e.g., Python, PowerShell, Bash, C/C++).
• Strong understanding of Windows and Linux internals, Active Directory, and enterprise network architecture.
• Experience with vulnerability research, exploit development, and threat emulation.
• Familiarity with security frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK, NIST-CSF, and OWASP.

Professional Skills:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a threat actor mindset.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to translate technical findings into business impact.
• Proven ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, global environment.

Personal Requirements:

• Excellent communication skills.
• Results driven, with a strong sense of accountability.
• A proactive, motivated approach.
• The ability to operate with urgency and priorities work accordingly.
• Strong decision-making skills, the ability to demonstrate sound judgement.
• A structured and logical approach to work.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• A creative and innovative approach to work.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• The ability to manage large workloads and tight deadlines.
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy.
• A calm approach, with the ability to perform well in a pressurised environment.

We are open to considering flexible working requests in line with organisational requirements. MUFG is committed to embracing diversity and building an inclusive culture where all employees are valued, respected and their opinions count. We support the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion in recruitment and employment, and oppose all forms of discrimination on the grounds of age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy and maternity, race, gender reassignment, religion or belief and marriage or civil partnership.