Principal Red Team Operator

London, England (Angel Lane), United Kingdom

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title: Principal Red Team Operator

Overview:

The Mastercard Red Team is looking for a Principal level Red Team member with multiple years of experience leading and participating in team-based offensive security campaigns. This role works collaboratively with team members performing continuous adversary simulation and security assurance against Mastercard’s infrastructure, data, processes, and physical spaces. The ideal candidate has several years of prior experience leading and executing offensive security operations and is passionate, self-driven in offensive and defensive security, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses a “thinking out of the box” mindset. The individual in this role will be responsible for simulating real-world cyber and physical attacks in coordination with the Red Team to help mature security operations as well as help identify security best practices.

Role:

1. Lead efforts to plan and execute sophisticated adversary simulation activities in cyber and physical security engagements as part of an elite red team.
2. Support development of strategic initiatives pertaining to the red team.
3. Document and present findings to various stakeholders across different leadership levels and departments.
4. Lead red team maturity efforts with direction from leadership.
5. Identify and document best practices and findings with recommended improvements.
6. Plan and support red team capability development – tools, techniques, and procedures.
7. Execute phishing and other social engineering campaigns.
8. Support red team infrastructure management.
9. Stay current with latest attack methodologies.

All About You:

1. Extensive knowledge of cyber security principles, techniques, and tools.
2. Multi-year operational offensive security experience with cyber and physical red teaming.
3. Extensive knowledge and operational experience with common offensive security tools, C2 frameworks, TTPs, and exploitation techniques.
4. Experience presenting complex data to technical and non-technical audiences effectively narrates campaign scenarios, outcomes, remediation recommendations, and impact assessments.
5. Advanced knowledge and experience in endpoint and monitoring controls evasion.
6. Proven ability to write, understand, and modify scripts and code in various programming languages.
7. Experience operating in cloud environments.
8. Demonstrated ability to work independently and as part of a team.
9. Extensive understanding of operating systems, common software, network protocols, and architecture.
10. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Corporate Security Responsibility:

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks come with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach;
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.