Remote Lead Red Team Engineer: AI Security

Lumen; Olympia (WA); Remote; USD 116,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Lumen, a leader in secure, AI-ready connectivity, seeks a Lead Information Security Engineer (Red Team) to drive advanced penetration testing and adversarial emulation across cloud-native and hybrid environments. The role blends deep technical work with leadership, mentoring, and strategic security improvements.

You will plan engagements, coordinate stakeholders, and deliver actionable findings to strengthen defenses while advancing Red Team capabilities with automation and AI‑driven testing.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years 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, applications, cloud platforms, APIs, databases, and identity systems.
• Direct Adversarial Cybersecurity Emulation (ACE) and Red Team engagements, coordinating stakeholders, managing risk, and delivering actionable security recommendations.
• Provide technical leadership across multiple concurrent initiatives, ensuring quality and delivery while remaining hands-on with testing.
• Define testing strategies, review findings and risk assessments, and guide remediation efforts to reduce organizational risk.
• Partner with incident response, engineering, product, and business teams to identify vulnerabilities, evaluate attack paths, and strengthen controls.
• Drive innovation through automation, tooling, process improvements, AI/ML-enabled security capabilities, and the expansion of Red Team services.
• Communicate technical risks and business impacts to executives and technical audiences, promoting knowledge sharing and a security-focused culture.

Skills

Penetration testing

Offensive security

Adversarial emulation

MITRE ATT&CK

Cloud security

Leadership

Mentoring

Stakeholder management

AWS/Azure/GCP knowledge

Security frameworks

Networking / OS / APIs

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Security, CS, or Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Penetration testing certifications (GPEN, GWAPT, GMOB, OSCP, OSWE)

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Lumen, a leader in secure, AI-ready connectivity, seeks a Lead Information Security Engineer (Red Team) to drive advanced penetration testing and adversarial emulation across cloud-native and hybrid environments. The role blends deep technical work with leadership, mentoring, and strategic security improvements.

You will plan engagements, coordinate stakeholders, and deliver actionable findings to strengthen defenses while advancing Red Team capabilities with automation and AI‑driven testing.