Principal Red Team Operator

When you join Verizon you’ll find a place to share daring ideas, learn, grow, and thrive. Verizon powers how people live, work, and play by connecting them to what brings them joy, driving innovation, creativity, and impact. The V Team is a community that anticipates, leads, and believes that listening is where learning begins, lifting communities and building trust everywhere.

Responsibilities

• Conduct red‑team exercises that emulate realistic threats targeting telco‑specific systems, including wireline and wireless network infrastructure and supporting systems.
• Identify, exploit, and report vulnerabilities in critical telco systems and infrastructure.
• Deliver comprehensive technical reports and executive summaries that outline findings, exploit paths, and remediation recommendations.
• Collaborate with the blue team to develop detection and prevention strategies informed by red‑team engagements.
• Stay updated on the latest attack techniques, tactics, and procedures (TTPs) relevant to the telecommunications industry.
• Provide insights to enhance the organization’s security posture through collaboration with peers in both security and operations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of relevant work experience.
• Six or more years of relevant experience, demonstrated through work, military experience, or specialized training.
• Strong understanding of 4G/5G protocols and interfaces, including GTP, Diameter, SS7, S1‑MME, S1‑U, S11, and HTTP/2 Service‑Based Architecture.
• Deep knowledge of 4G/5G core network architecture and supporting systems.
• Foundational knowledge of enterprise networking technologies and protocols (routers, switches, VPN, load balancers, TCP/IP, IP addressing, ASN, CIDR, subnetting, etc.).
• Strong Linux skills.
• Proficiency in coding and scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell, etc.) and ability to vet exploit code.
• Familiarity with network architecture and cloud environments such as Kubernetes, OpenStack, and OpenShift.
• Problem‑solving ability to think like an attacker and devise innovative attack scenarios targeting telco environments.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills for interaction with technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Preferred certifications: OSCP, OSCE, OSEP, GPEN, GXPN, or GWAPT.
• Knowledge of 3GPP standards relevant to EPC, 4G Core, 5G SA, 5G Core, 5G/LTE radio access, VoLTE/VoNR.
• Understanding of security challenges in Internet‑scale networks, wireless core components, cloud, and edge computing.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Short‑ and long‑term disability, basic life, supplemental life, and AD&D insurance.
• Identity theft protection, pet insurance, and group home & auto insurance.
• Matched 401(k) savings plan.
• Up to 8 company‑paid holidays and up to 6 personal days per year.
• Paid parental leave, adoption assistance, and tuition assistance.
• Premium pay options such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, and allowances (where applicable).
• Up to 15 days of vacation for newly hired employees, increasing with tenure.

Pay

The annual salary range for this full‑time position, based on location and confirmed job‑related skills and experience, is $120,500.00 – $231,000.00. This is an incentive‑based role with the potential to earn additional compensation.

Schedule

This hybrid role requires a minimum of three days per week in the office (location set by the manager) and the remainder working from home. The position is scheduled for 40 hours per week, with compliance to Verizon’s hybrid work policies. The role can be based in any US‑based Verizon hub location.