Remote Offensive Security Lead: Pen-Testing & Red Team

CACI International Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 105,000 - 231,000; Full time

Job summary

CACI International Inc. seeks an Offensive Security Technical Lead to own technical delivery across penetration testing and red-team workstreams. You will provide continuous technical assessment support for proactive testing of federal assets and guide engagement plans, adversary scenarios, and high‑risk actions.

Join a senior team driving standards, tooling, and repeatable delivery while maintaining customer objectives and safety. Travel up to 25% across the Continental US is expected.

Qualifications

• Eight or more years of progressively responsible offensive-security experience with hands-on pentesting and red-team.
• Five or more years leading complex technical engagements or senior offensive-security teams.
• Strong scripting, automation, or tool‑development capability and the judgment to approve or reject high‑risk methods.
• Advanced hands‑on certifications such as OSEP/OSCE, OSWE, GXPN, GPEN, OSED/OSEE, CRTO/CRTL.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior technical authority for penetration testing and red-team delivery across the RFS portfolio; align customer objectives, authorization, safety, methodology, staffing, and deliverables.
• Define and mature assessment standards, ROE patterns, gates, evidence requirements, severity methodology, reporting expectations, and playbooks.
• Review and approve engagement plans, adversary scenarios, infrastructure designs, tooling exceptions, exploitation approaches, data handling, and high‑risk actions.
• Act as a Technical Lead, guide the team, mentor staff, conduct readiness reviews, and resolve cross‑domain problems.
• Provide hands‑on support for network, application, AD/identity, cloud, exploit development, adversary infrastructure, and defense‑evasion challenges.
• Own final technical quality and acceptance for assessment reports, attack narratives, severity, remediation, and customer out‑briefs.
• Lead technical customer discussions, communicate risk, coordinate with project management on schedule and staffing.

Skills

Penetration testing

Red-team delivery

Scripting/Automation

Cloud security

Windows/AD security

Leadership

Threat emulation

Stakeholder communication

Education

OSEP/OSCE/OSWE/GPEX|GPEN/OSED/OSEE/CRTO/CRTL certifications

Job description

CACI International Inc. seeks an Offensive Security Technical Lead to own technical delivery across penetration testing and red-team workstreams. You will provide continuous technical assessment support for proactive testing of federal assets and guide engagement plans, adversary scenarios, and high‑risk actions.

Join a senior team driving standards, tooling, and repeatable delivery while maintaining customer objectives and safety. Travel up to 25% across the Continental US is expected.