Principal Red Team Operator

Key Responsibilities

• Execute Red Team and Purple Team engagements as a primary operator, including adversary emulation, assumed breach scenarios, and intelligence driven attack paths
• Design and execute campaign based attack operations that simulate real world adversary behavior across enterprise environments
• Perform hands on exploitation and abuse across on prem, cloud, SaaS, and hybrid infrastructures
• Simulate advanced attacker tradecraft, including living off the land techniques, identity abuse, privilege escalation, lateral movement, persistence, command and control, and controlled data exfiltration
• Conduct testing against AI enabled systems and workflows, including abuse and misuse of AI assistants, copilots, and automation platforms
• Execute prompt manipulation, indirect prompt injection, and AI model misuse scenarios to evaluate emerging attack surfaces
• Collaborate closely with Detection Engineering and Blue Team during Purple Team engagements to validate detections, identify coverage gaps, and refine response effectiveness
• Translate offensive findings into actionable remediation insights and partner with stakeholders to ensure vulnerabilities are addressed and control effectiveness is improved
• Contribute to full lifecycle execution of engagements, ensuring findings are tracked through resolution and result in measurable risk reduction
• Leverage and extend red team tooling and frameworks and develop targeted scripts or payloads to emulate specific adversary behaviors
• Document findings clearly, including attack paths, control weaknesses, and detection gaps, contributing to engagement reports and technical debriefs
• Operate within defined rules of engagement, safety protocols, and ethical guidelines to ensure realistic and controlled testing
• Stay current on evolving adversary tactics, offensive tooling, and AI security research, incorporating new techniques into ongoing testing efforts

Experience and Skills

• 4 to 8 years of hands on cybersecurity experience with a strong focus on Red Team operations, adversary emulation, or advanced offensive security
• Demonstrated experience executing Red Team or Purple Team engagements in assumed breach or adversary based scenarios
• Proven ability to design and execute attack paths rather than relying solely on automated tools or point in time testing
• Strong technical capability across multiple attack surfaces, including identity and access attacks, endpoint and network exploitation, cloud and SaaS environments, and command and control frameworks
• Understanding of campaign based red teaming and continuous testing approaches, including iterative and regression style validation
• Working knowledge of AI security concepts, including how AI enabled systems, inputs, and workflows can be manipulated or abused
• Ability to collaborate with Blue Team and Detection Engineering to translate offensive activity into improved detection and response capabilities
• Strong operational discipline, including clear documentation, safe execution, and adherence to engagement constraints
• Effective communication skills, with the ability to explain technical findings to security practitioners and cross functional partners
• Demonstrated curiosity, adaptability, and ability to operate in rapidly evolving threat and technology environments

Education and Certifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Security, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field, or equivalent experience
• Relevant industry certifications such as OSCP, OSEP, CRTO, CRTP, or similar advanced offensive security credentials
• Exposure to AI security testing or AI red teaming through hands on work, training, or research is preferred