Remote Lead Red Team Security Engineer

Lumen; Helena (MT); Remote; USD 106,000 - 141,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life insurance

Wellbeing programs

Job summary

Lumen is recruiting a Lead Information Security Engineer to lead Red Team operations, perform adversarial emulation, and drive security testing across cloud-native and hybrid environments. You will guide engagements, mentor engineers, and shape testing strategies to strengthen defenses.

In this remote role, you will partner with security, engineering, product, and business teams to reduce risk, deliver actionable findings, and advance AI/ML‑enabled security capabilities while staying hands-on in

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 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 infra, applications, cloud, APIs, databases, and identities.
• Direct ACE and Red Team engagements, coordinating stakeholders, managing risk, and delivering actionable security recommendations.
• Provide technical leadership across multiple concurrent initiatives while remaining hands-on with testing activities.
• 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 security controls.
• Drive innovation through automation, tooling, AI/ML-enabled security capabilities, and expansion of Red Team services.
• Communicate technical risks and business impacts to executive and technical audiences, promoting knowledge sharing and a security-focused culture.

Skills

Penetration testing

Adversarial emulation

Threat modeling

MITRE ATT&CK

Cloud security

Leadership

Threat intelligence

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Security/CS/Engineering

Master's degree in Information Security

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

OWASP

NIST/CIS Controls

Job description

Lumen is recruiting a Lead Information Security Engineer to lead Red Team operations, perform adversarial emulation, and drive security testing across cloud-native and hybrid environments. You will guide engagements, mentor engineers, and shape testing strategies to strengthen defenses.

In this remote role, you will partner with security, engineering, product, and business teams to reduce risk, deliver actionable findings, and advance AI/ML‑enabled security capabilities while staying hands-on in