Red Team Engineer

Adversarial Tooling Engineer - AI andamp; Red Team Engineering - Contract Rate£600 per day - Inside IR35 Contract14 month contract with occasional travel to Sheffield Role OverviewWe are looking for an experienced Adversarial Tooling Engineer to join a major cybersecurity programme within a large, complex enterprise environment. This is not a traditional penetration testing role. We are looking for a strong software engineer with genuine offensive security experience who can design, build and maintain the internal tooling used by Red Team and adversarial security specialists. The role also has a significant AI component. You will develop AI-enabled adversarial tooling and agentic workflows that improve operator effectiveness while ensuring activity remains safe, controlled, auditable and within agreed rules of engagement. What You''ll Be Doing Design and build internal adversarial security tools, scripts, utilities and small services. Translate Red Team and adversarial TTP requirements into reliable technical solutions. Develop operator-facing tooling capable of performing effectively during real security assessments. Build AI-enabled tooling and agentic workflows to automate and accelerate repeatable adversarial activities. Implement appropriate AI guardrails including action allow-lists, human approval gates, environment controls and audit trails. Develop evaluation and regression testing for AI and agentic capabilities. Build tooling capable of operating in constrained ..... full job details .....