Hybrid Red Team Operator: Lead Adversary Emulation

Verizon; Irving (TX); Hybrid; USD 137,000 - 263,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

Total rewards package

Job summary

Verizon seeks a Distinguished Red Team Operator to lead enterprise red team campaigns, emulating adversaries and developing evasion techniques. You will mentor junior testers, translate complex findings for leadership, and drive security initiatives across multiple business areas.

The role emphasizes OS, networks, cloud, and incident response knowledge, with hybrid work requirements and a strong focus on real-world risk mitigation and remediation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Eight or more years of relevant work experience required demonstrated through one or a combination of job-related work experience, military experience, or specialized training or education (non-collegiate).
• Six or more years of direct offensive security experience, specifically leading engagements in Adversary Emulation, Adversary Simulation, Threat Emulation or Threat Simulation.

Responsibilities

• Lead and execute full-spectrum Red Team engagements, encompassing adversary emulation, social engineering, and the development of techniques to evade EDR and other controls.
• Ingest and operationalize Cyber Threat Intelligence to create realistic, procedure-level emulation plans mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
• Architect, develop, and maintain custom offensive tooling, scripts, and methodologies to enhance the VCS Red Team's operational scope and efficiency.
• Navigate complex, ambiguous operational environments, translating broad strategic goals into concrete execution plans with minimal oversight.
• Drive cross-functional security initiatives, setting operational principles and leading the execution of significant goals that impact multiple business areas.
• Safely configure and deploy advanced attacker TTPs within live environments, ensuring rigorous testing without disrupting business continuity.
• Provide expert technical mentorship to team members regarding offensive campaigns, vulnerability analysis, OPSEC, and professional development.
• Act as a primary Subject Matter Expert regarding security vulnerability impact ratings, offering guidance on the severity and implications of specific exposures.
• Communicate complex risk scenarios to technical staff, executive leadership, and legal counsel, clearly articulating both the technical findings and the strategic impact.
• Produce high-level documentation and presentations, bridging the gap between technical exploitation details and executive risk management.
• Deliver pragmatic, actionable remediation guidance, helping the organization prioritize fixes based on realistic risk assessments rather than theoretical severity.

Skills

Adversary emulation

Threat emulation

Red Team leadership

MITRE ATT&CK

Scripting & automation

OS internals

Networking

Executive communication

Python

PowerShell

Go/Java/C/C++

Cloud security

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Python

PowerShell

C/C++

Go

Java

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Verizon seeks a Distinguished Red Team Operator to lead enterprise red team campaigns, emulating adversaries and developing evasion techniques. You will mentor junior testers, translate complex findings for leadership, and drive security initiatives across multiple business areas.

The role emphasizes OS, networks, cloud, and incident response knowledge, with hybrid work requirements and a strong focus on real-world risk mitigation and remediation.