Remote Red Team Infra Engineer - 80% Hybrid, Public Trust

Intelligent Waves; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Paid PTO

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Tuition bonuses

Professional training

Job summary

Intelligent Waves seeks a Red Team Operator SME & Infrastructure Engineer to lead advanced red team operations and lab infrastructure. The role is hybrid (80% remote) with weekly office presence near Union Station, Washington, DC, and full commuting cost reimbursement.

Minimum 4 years in network/sys admin and red team work; CRTO within 90 days; US citizenship and ability to obtain Public Trust clearance required. Travel up to 10% and 165k–175k salary range.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 4 years hands-on network and systems administration experience.
• Two years leadership experience in red team or government operations.
• Two years with red team software frameworks (Cobalt Strike, Kali, etc.).
• Two years independent red team exercise delivery.
• Two years developing payloads bypassing AV and EDR.
• Two years mentoring junior operators on red team tradecraft.
• Two years delivering technical red team reports and briefings.
• Must obtain CRTO within 90 days of start date.

Responsibilities

• Develop, automate, and deploy red team infrastructure (Ubiquiti, Proxmox, Kubernetes, Ansible, Apache/Nginx, GOCD).
• Configure routers, switches, and firewalls; secure lab infra from unauthorized access.
• Manage AD lab environments; create/modify/delete directory objects.
• Install Windows and Linux OS and drivers for lab systems.
• Maintain VPN access and security patches across lab environment.

Skills

Red team operations

Network administration

Systems administration

Mentoring junior operators

Education

CRTO certification

OSCP/OSCE/GXPN/GPEN (preferred)

Tools

Cobalt Strike

Kali Linux

Proxmox

Ansible

Ubiquiti

Kubernetes

GoCD

Apache/NGINX

Job description

Intelligent Waves seeks a Red Team Operator SME & Infrastructure Engineer to lead advanced red team operations and lab infrastructure. The role is hybrid (80% remote) with weekly office presence near Union Station, Washington, DC, and full commuting cost reimbursement.

Minimum 4 years in network/sys admin and red team work; CRTO within 90 days; US citizenship and ability to obtain Public Trust clearance required. Travel up to 10% and 165k–175k salary range.