Lead Red Team Engineer — Adversarial Security (Remote)

Lumen; Trenton (NJ); Remote; USD 116,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Lumen is seeking a Lead Information Security Engineer to drive Red Team engagements across cloud, on‑prem, and hybrid environments. You will lead planning, execution, and reporting of complex adversarial emulation exercises while mentoring security engineers and advancing testing capabilities.

The role emphasizes technical leadership, collaboration with security, product, and engineering teams, and the delivery of actionable risk mitigations. Remote within the U.S. opportunity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of hands‑on penetration testing, offensive security, or advanced security assessment experience; 7+ years in Information Security (or 5+ years with a Bachelor's degree).
• Professional certifications in penetration testing such as GPEN, GWAPT, GMOB, OSCP, OSWE, or equivalent.
• Proven experience leading complex penetration tests and adversarial exercises from planning through technical and executive reporting.
• Deep expertise in MITRE ATT&CK, threat‑informed testing, adversarial emulation, and modern cyber threats, vulnerabilities, and exploit techniques.
• Strong knowledge of AWS, Azure, and/or GCP security, including identity, networking, workloads, and cloud control planes.
• Experience applying OWASP, NIST, CIS Controls, and other security frameworks.
• Advanced knowledge of networks, operating systems, identity systems, applications, APIs, scripting, and enterprise technologies.
• Demonstrated leadership, mentoring, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to drive multiple workstreams while remaining technically hands‑on.

Responsibilities

• Lead penetration testing, adversarial emulation, and threat‑based security assessments.
• Plan, execute, and report complex security assessments across infrastructure, apps, cloud, APIs, databases, and identity systems.
• Direct ACE and Red Team engagements, coordinating stakeholders, managing risk, and delivering actionable recommendations.
• Provide technical leadership across concurrent initiatives, staying hands‑on with testing.
• Define testing strategies, review findings, and guide remediation to reduce risk.
• Partner with incident response, engineering, product, and business teams to identify vulnerabilities and strengthen controls.
• Drive automation, tooling, and AI/ML‑enabled security capabilities in Red Team services.
• Communicate risks and business impacts to executive and technical audiences.

Skills

Penetration testing

Adversarial emulation

MITRE ATT&CK

Cloud security

Leadership

Stakeholder comms

Scripting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Security / CS / Engineering

Master’s degree (preferred)

Tools

GPEN/GWAPT/GMOB/OSCP/OSWE or equivalent

AWS/Azure/GCP security tooling

Job description

Lumen is seeking a Lead Information Security Engineer to drive Red Team engagements across cloud, on‑prem, and hybrid environments. You will lead planning, execution, and reporting of complex adversarial emulation exercises while mentoring security engineers and advancing testing capabilities.

The role emphasizes technical leadership, collaboration with security, product, and engineering teams, and the delivery of actionable risk mitigations. Remote within the U.S. opportunity.