Senior Red Team Operator - Hybrid Cyber Resilience

Starling is the UK's first and leading digital bank on a mission to fix banking! Our vision is fast technology, fair service, and honest values. We are about giving customers a new way to spend, save and manage their money while taking better care of the planet, which has seen us become a multi-award winning bank that now employs over 2800 across five offices in London, Cardiff, Dublin, Southampton, and Manchester.

Our journey started in 2014, and since then we have surpassed 3.5 million accounts with 350,000 business customers. We are a fully licensed UK bank but at the heart, we are a tech-first company, enabling our platform to deliver brilliant products.

Our technologists enjoy working in a fast-paced environment that is all about building things, creating new stuff, and disruptive technology that keeps us on the cutting edge of fintech. We operate a flat structure to empower you to make decisions regardless of your primary responsibilities. Innovation and collaboration will be at the core of everything you do. Help is never far away in our open culture; you will find support in your team and from across the business.

The way to thrive and shine within Starling is to be a self-driven individual and take full ownership of everything around you: from building things, designing, discovering, to sharing knowledge with your colleagues and ensuring all processes are efficient and productive to deliver the best possible results for our customers. Our purpose is underpinned by five Starling values: Listen, Keep It Simple, Do The Right Thing, Own It, and Aim For Greatness.

Hybrid Working

We have a Hybrid approach to working here at Starling - our preference is that you're located within a commutable distance of one of our offices so that we're able to interact and collaborate in person. In Technology, we're asking that you attend the office a minimum of 1 day per week.

Here at Starling, we are growing, and our first line Technology Risk (ITRM) Team is looking for an experienced and talented Red Team Senior Operator to join our Cyber Resilience team to proactively identify vulnerabilities within our systems and digital infrastructure to ensure continuous improvement in Starling's resilience.

Reporting to the Technology Risk Adversarial & Cyber Resilience Testing Director, you will have responsibility for designing and executing red team operations and cyber resilience testing against Starling Bank. Operations will emulate real threat actors and target cutting-edge technology in Starling Bank's platform as well as ranging across the endpoint estate. You will use emerging threat intelligence to inform and develop effective attacks.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Red Team testing
• Lead the design and execution of red team operations against Starling Bank (including scoping, planning, payload/infrastructure development, execution, reporting and workshops)
• Identify complex vulnerabilities and build advanced exploits
• Continually improve the methodology and capability of the team
• Mentor junior team members and share expertise
• Develop and document reusable attack components using realistic TTPs
• Lead purple team exercises and collaborate with the SOC team to enhance detection capabilities
• Translate red team tactics into actionable intelligence for blue team operations
• Develop advanced threat models and 'worst case scenario' playbooks based on emerging global risks and simulate complex real-world scenarios

Cyber Resilience Technical Testing

• Lead cyber resilience testing initiatives to assess the Bank's ability to withstand and recover from cyber attacks, including controlled attack scenarios to evaluate resilience and recovery capabilities
• Drive identification of vulnerabilities, improve defence strategies and validate recovery processes
• Analyse complex test results, validate breach scenarios, document findings and provide strategic actionable recommendations
• Coordinate multi-stage testing scenarios and lead cross-team activities