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Santander

Global retail and commercial banking group

Cyber Security Specialist 4 - Purple Team

Offensive Security & TestingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeSão Paulo, State of São Paulo, BrazilIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Practical experience in offensive and defensive security, including simulating real-world tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), validating security controls, identifying detection gaps, and supporting the evolution of security operations center (SOC), endpoint detection and response (EDR), security information and event management (SIEM), web application firewall (WAF), identity and access management (IAM), cloud security, and application security (AppSec).
  • Experience or knowledge involving Purple Team exercises, adversary emulation, threat hunting, detection engineering, MITRE ATT&CK, log analysis, security control validation, and technical and executive reporting.

Responsibilities

  • Define and lead Purple Team strategies.
  • Conduct advanced adversary-emulation campaigns.
  • Support technical and architecture decisions.
  • Develop methodologies, frameworks, and standards.
  • Review deliverables and mentor the team.
  • Engage with stakeholders and leadership.
  • Execute complex, multi-stage attacks.
  • Perform threat modeling and validate security controls.
  • Integrate with the security operations center, engineering, and cloud teams.
  • Advance detection and response capabilities.
  • Set technical and strategic direction with high or full autonomy.

Desired Qualifications

  • Knowledge of web, API, and mobile security; Active Directory; cloud security; SIEM; EDR; Sigma; YARA; KQL; SPL; Burp Suite; Metasploit; Atomic Red Team; Caldera; Cobalt Strike in authorized environments; and MITRE ATT&CK Navigator.
  • Certifications such as Security+, eWPT, eWPTX, OSCP, OSEP, CRTO, PNPT, GPEN, GWAPT, GXPN, GCIH, GCFA, or GDAT.
  • Strong Red Team or Purple Team experience and experience working in complex scenarios.
  • OSCP or equivalent certification; OSWE, OSEP, or CRTO II; and OSCE3 or experience in offensive cloud security.
  • Technical leadership capability, creating frameworks or methodologies, and strong integration between Red Team and Blue Team.
  • A technical and investigative approach, collaboration, risk awareness, and the ability to translate offensive simulations into measurable defensive improvements.

About the Company

Santander

Global retail and commercial banking group

Santander is a global bank focusing on retail and commercial banking in Europe and the Americas, serving individuals and SMEs with regional franchises and a broad consumer finance arm, plus a Corporate & Investment Banking division for multinational clients. It uses its Gravity cloud platform to migrate core banking and rapidly deploy digital services such as Openbank across markets, combining fintech-style agility with a bank's balance sheet. The bank differentiates itself by marrying a large retail footprint with global CIB capabilities under the One Santander verticals model to boost efficiency and cross-border revenue. Its goals include improving returns on tangible equity and financing the green economy through sustainable finance and renewable energy projects.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Boadilla del Monte, Spain
Founded
1902

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