Remote Red Team Lead - InfoSec Engineer

Lumen; Columbus (OH); Remote; USD 111,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life insurance

Voluntary lifestyle benefits

Bonus structure

Remote work

Job summary

Lumen is the trusted network for the AI‑powered world, delivering secure, high‑performant connectivity across cloud, edge, and AI workloads. The Lead Information Security Engineer will spearhead Red Team initiatives, plan ACE exercises, and mentor engineers across security testing programs in a remote, nationwide setting.

You will collaborate with security, engineering, and product teams to reduce risk, improve resilience, and advance RED Team capabilities with automation and AI/ML-enabled

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Information Security, CS, Engineering, or related field.
• 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 reporting.
• Deep expertise in MITRE ATT&CK, threat-informed testing, adversarial emulation, and modern cyber threats.
• 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.

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

Adversarial emulation

Threat-informed testing

Cloud security

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Engineering

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

MITRE ATT&CK

OWASP

NIST

CIS Controls

Job description

Lumen is the trusted network for the AI‑powered world, delivering secure, high‑performant connectivity across cloud, edge, and AI workloads. The Lead Information Security Engineer will spearhead Red Team initiatives, plan ACE exercises, and mentor engineers across security testing programs in a remote, nationwide setting.

You will collaborate with security, engineering, and product teams to reduce risk, improve resilience, and advance RED Team capabilities with automation and AI/ML-enabled