Offensive & Penetration Test Automation Engineer

Offensive & Penetration Test Automation Engineer Location: Fully Remote - UK & Europe Right to Work: Must have the right to work in the UK Experience: 2-5 years Salary: 70,000 - 80,000 (depending on experience) About the Role We're looking for an Offensive Engineer to join our security team and help us stay ahead of real-world threats. This is not a 'run-the-tool-and-write-the-report' role - we're looking for someone who enjoys building, automating, and thinking creatively about offensive security. You'll be working fully remotely from the UK (or abroad butUK right to work is paramount), collaborating with a highly technical team to design and deploy offensive security solutions, develop tooling, and simulate adversary behaviour at scale. If you enjoy combining hands-on hacking with software engineering and automation, this role is for you. What You'll Be Doing Creating smart automation offensive security activities including penetration testing and foot holding / initial access Designing, building, and deploying custom offensive tooling and automation Studying and deploying exploit code and offensive tooling (TTPs) Working with cloud infrastructure to support large-scale testing, data processing, and real-time attacks Collaborating closely with engineers and security teams to fine tune and research improvements and testing Continuously researching emerging threats, techniques, and vulnerabilities Ideal Traits We'd love to talk to you if you have 2-5 years of hands-on technical experience , along with the following: Red Team & Offensive Security Expertise - Hands on, manual, automation and tool writing Cloud Infrastructure Experience - Some deployment and automation ideally Innovative Mindset - a scientist mindset. How to improve and learn. Programming & Automation Skills - Python or Go ideally Maybe you're an open source contributor as well? Why Join Us? Fully remote role across the UK and Europe 70-80k salary , depending on experience Freedom to build, automate, and innovate rather than just follow playbooks A collaborative, engineering-led security culture Circle Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. Earn yourself a referral bonus if you refer somebody else who fills the role! We also offer an iPad if you refer a new client to us and we recruit for them. Follow us on Facebook - Circle Recruitment , Twitter - @Circle_Rec and LinkedIn - Circle Recruitment. TPBN1_UKTJ

Created: 2026-01-17