Senior Red Team Operator

About the role

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

The Senior Red Team Operator leads advanced offensive security operations designed to assess and improve the organization's cyber resilience. This role is responsible for conducting sophisticated threat emulation exercises, adversarial simulations, and offensive security assessments across enterprise systems, applications, cloud environments, and physical security domains. The Senior Red Team Operator serves as a technical leader and subject matter expert, driving innovation in offensive security tradecraft, developing custom capabilities, mentoring team members, and partnering with security and business stakeholders to strengthen detection, response, and risk management capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead and execute advanced threat emulation, Red Team, and adversarial simulation exercises that replicate sophisticated threat actors.
• Conduct offensive security assessments against enterprise networks, applications, cloud platforms, infrastructure, and physical security controls.
• Develop custom tools, payloads, exploits, and automation capabilities to support complex Red Team operations.
• Research emerging threats, attacker methodologies, and offensive security techniques to continuously enhance team capabilities.
• Design and execute multi-stage attack scenarios that assess the effectiveness of security controls, monitoring capabilities, and incident response processes.
• Produce executive and technical reporting that clearly documents attack chains, business impact, risk severity, and remediation recommendations.
• Serve as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert to security operations, detection engineering, threat hunting, and technology teams.