Senior Red Team Infra Engineer & SME — Hybrid/Remote

Intelligent Waves; Washington, Northern (District of Columbia, KY); 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

Technical training

Job summary

Intelligent Waves is seeking a Red Team Operator SME & Infrastructure Engineer for a hybrid role based near Washington, DC. You will build and secure red team infrastructure, automate deployments, and manage lab environments across Windows, Linux, AD, and VPN services.

Travel up to 10% and required Public Trust clearance coordinate with DoD‑scale missions. The ideal candidate has extensive red team operations experience, proficiency with frameworks like Cobalt Strike and Kali, and a track record

Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years direct, hands‑on red team and/or government network operations experience.
• Minimum 2 years leadership experience in red team operations.
• 3+ years modifying/using red team frameworks (Cobalt Strike, Kali) for operations.
• 2+ years independently delivering end-to-end red team exercises without supervision.
• 2+ years developing payloads to bypass AV/EDR for red team use.

Responsibilities

• Develop, automate, and deploy red team exercise infrastructure (Ubiquiti, Proxmox, Kubernetes, Ansible, Apache/NGINX, GOCD).
• Deploy, configure, and maintain routers, switches, and firewalls.
• Secure red team infrastructure against unauthorized access and detection.
• Protect infrastructure from DCO identification and fingerprinting TTPs.
• Create, configure, and manage Active Directory lab environments.
• Manage lab accounts, OUs, and directory objects.
• Install Windows/Linux OS and required drivers for lab systems.
• Apply security patches and monitor activity for intrusion or compromise.
• Maintain VPN access infrastructure.

Skills

Red Team Ops

Infrastructure Eng

Networking & Sys Admin

Security Patch & Monitor

Tools

Cobalt Strike

Kali Linux

Ansible

Promox

Kubernetes

GoCD

NGINX

Ubiquiti

Job description

Intelligent Waves is seeking a Red Team Operator SME & Infrastructure Engineer for a hybrid role based near Washington, DC. You will build and secure red team infrastructure, automate deployments, and manage lab environments across Windows, Linux, AD, and VPN services.

Travel up to 10% and required Public Trust clearance coordinate with DoD‑scale missions. The ideal candidate has extensive red team operations experience, proficiency with frameworks like Cobalt Strike and Kali, and a track record