Remote Lead Red Team Security Engineer

Lumen Technologies; United States; Remote; USD 106,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

Job summary

Lumen Technologies is seeking a Lead Information Security Engineer (Red Team) to lead advanced penetration testing and adversarial emulation across cloud-native and hybrid environments. You will guide ACE exercises, mentor engineers, and drive risk-based security improvements.

Based remotely in the U.S., you’ll collaborate with security, product, and engineering teams to strengthen defenses, reduce risk, and advance Red Team capabilities through automation and innovation.

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

• Serve as a cybersecurity and Red Team subject matter expert, leading penetration testing, adversarial emulation, and threat-based security assessments.
• Lead end-to-end planning, execution, and reporting of 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, accuracy, and successful delivery 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, process improvements, AI/ML-enabled security capabilities, and the expansion of Red Team services.
• Communicate technical risks and business impacts to executive and technical audiences, promote knowledge sharing, and foster a strong security-focused culture.

Skills

Penetration testing

Offensive security

Leadership

Threat-informed testing

Adversarial emulation

Cloud security

MITRE ATT&CK

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Security/CS/Engineering

Tools

GPEN/WAPT/OSCP/OSWE certifications

Job description

Lumen Technologies is seeking a Lead Information Security Engineer (Red Team) to lead advanced penetration testing and adversarial emulation across cloud-native and hybrid environments. You will guide ACE exercises, mentor engineers, and drive risk-based security improvements.

Based remotely in the U.S., you’ll collaborate with security, product, and engineering teams to strengthen defenses, reduce risk, and advance Red Team capabilities through automation and innovation.