Managing Consultant – Red Team
RegionUSA
Job description
Job Description: - Participate directly in red team, purple team, and social engineering engagements.
- Divide time approximately equally between technical delivery and management responsibilities.
- Support the performance and development of direct reports.
- Work alongside consultants to maintain technical proficiency and understand delivery challenges.
- Build trusted relationships with consultants and clients.
- Provide coaching and address performance concerns.
- Partner with the Practice Director to improve team operations.
- Lead or provide thought leadership to security consultants delivering engagements for clients.
- Develop red team attack scenarios and purple team test cases tied to client objectives.
- Produce and review assessment reports with actionable recommendations and technical evidence.
Requirements: - Demonstrated experience managing people, including providing regular feedback, supporting career development, and addressing performance concerns.
- Experience mentoring technical practitioners through hands-on collaboration and guiding them to take on greater responsibility.
- Ability to give and receive candid feedback, work through disagreements professionally, and maintain productive relationships.
- Experience addressing internal and client concerns, coordinating resolution, and recognizing when additional support or authority is needed.
- Experience coordinating staffing needs and development opportunities with appropriate departments or business units.
- At least five years of offensive security experience delivering adversary emulation engagements, including red team and purple team assessments, for clients across multiple industries.
- Experience developing red team attack scenarios and purple team test cases tied to client objectives.
- Demonstrated operational security judgment based on assessment objectives, detection risk, and potential client impact.
- Ability to produce and review accurate assessment reports with actionable recommendations and technical evidence.
- Experience improving red team capabilities and methodologies.
- Expertise in Active Directory exploitation and lateral movement.
- Working knowledge of Windows, macOS, and Linux.
- Working knowledge of AWS, Azure, GCP, Microsoft 365, and Google Workspace.
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker.
- Hands-on experience with C2 frameworks such as Sliver and Mythic.
- Experience developing and modifying custom tools and payloads, applying EDR evasion techniques, and using reverse engineering.
- Proficiency in multiple programming and/or scripting languages such as Python, Go, C#, C++, PowerShell, or Bash.
- Ability to analyze network and application communications.
- Experience conducting social engineering assessments, including reconnaissance and phishing and vishing pretexts, with an understanding of countermeasures.
- Preferred: Experience conducting physical security assessments, or interest in developing that capability with training and mentorship.
- All new hires must pass a background check as a condition of employment.
Benefits: - Generous Time Off and Company-Wide Holidays
- Team Events and International Travel Opportunities
- Work From Home Support
- Monthly Allowance for Cell Phone and Internet
- Training Budget
- Retirement; 401k Matching for Traditional and Roth Accounts in the US
- Health Insurance Options Including Medical, Dental, Vision
- Paid Parental Leave
- Inclusive culture and Equal Opportunity employment
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