Director of Red Team & Adversary Simulations

AmerisourceBergen Services Corporation; Carrollton (TX); On-site; USD 160,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Professional development

Family support benefits

Job summary

AmerisourceBergen Services Corporation in Carrollton, TX seeks a Director of Red Team to lead offensive security efforts, orchestrate adversary simulations, and guide vendor engagements. You will shape strategy, define engagement rules, and partner with IT, security operations, and risk teams to mature the organization’s security posture.

The role requires 8+ years in cybersecurity with 6+ in offensive security, plus strong leadership and communication skills to brief executives and drive

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent work experience.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, with at least 6 years dedicated to offensive security role in red team, penetration testing, adversary emulation, or exploit development.
• 3+ years leading offensive security teams or programs, with demonstrated success building and maturing the function at enterprise scale.
• Demonstrated experience planning and leading full-scope, objective-based red team operations against mature, monitored environments.
• Strong command of adversary tradecraft and the detection surfaces it creates, including how modern EDR, identity protection, and cloud logging observe attacker activity.
• Practical fluency with MITRE ATT&CK and threat intelligence, and the ability to translate actor behavior into realistic emulation plans.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with proven ability to deliver difficult findings without damaging partnership, and to brief executives credibly.

Responsibilities

• Manage and mature the Red Team strategy, aligning the overall vision and roadmap to business risks and posture.
• Maintain and enforce clear Rules of Engagement, standard operating procedures, and safety controls to ensure adversary simulations test controls effectively without degrading production stability.
• Align testing methodologies with threat intelligence frameworks to emulate threat actors and emerging tactics, techniques, and procedures relevant to business risk profiles.
• Lead, mentor, and mature a team of high-performing red team engineers and offensive security operators, fostering continuous learning and skill development.
• Balance team bandwidth between complex, long-term targeted campaigns, specialized security assessments, and research/tooling development.
• Select and manage third-party offensive security providers for external assessments, scoping complex engagements and statement of work deliverables.
• Validate that vendor findings maintain high technical standards and actionable quality.
• Integrate third-party findings into internal tracking mechanisms to ensure unified reporting and remediation.
• Partner closely with detection & response operations, threat intelligence, and security engineering to ensure red team findings drive tangible improvements in preventative and detective controls.
• Translate complex exploit chains and tactical findings into clear risk impact narratives for executive leadership and business unit leaders.

Skills

Red Team Leadership

Offensive Security

Threat Emulation

MITRE ATT&CK

Executive Briefing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity/CS/IS

8+ years cybersecurity experience

3+ years leading offensive security teams

CISSP/CISM preferred

Tools

EDR

Job description

AmerisourceBergen Services Corporation in Carrollton, TX seeks a Director of Red Team to lead offensive security efforts, orchestrate adversary simulations, and guide vendor engagements. You will shape strategy, define engagement rules, and partner with IT, security operations, and risk teams to mature the organization’s security posture.

The role requires 8+ years in cybersecurity with 6+ in offensive security, plus strong leadership and communication skills to brief executives and drive