Senior Red Team Lead: Offensive Security & Threat Emulation

U.S. Bank; Cincinnati (OH); Hybrid; USD 133,000 - 157,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Paid vacation

401(k)

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking a Senior Red Team Operator to lead advanced threat emulation and adversarial simulations across enterprise systems, cloud platforms, and physical security controls. You will develop custom tooling, mentor teammates, and report on risks and remediation with senior leadership.

The role requires 8+ years in information security, a Bachelor's degree or equivalent, and strong expertise in offensive security frameworks and programming. Hybrid work three days on-site.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years experience in information security.
• Experience leading Red Team engagements, threat emulation exercises, and adversarial simulations.

Responsibilities

• Lead and execute advanced threat emulation, Red Team, and adversarial simulation exercises that replicate sophisticated threat actors.
• Conduct offensive security assessments against enterprise networks, applications, cloud platforms, infrastructure, and physical security controls.
• Develop custom tools, payloads, exploits, and automation capabilities to support complex Red Team operations.
• Research emerging threats, attacker methodologies, and offensive security techniques to continuously enhance team capabilities.
• Design and execute multi-stage attack scenarios that assess the effectiveness of security controls, monitoring capabilities, and incident response processes.
• Produce executive and technical reporting that clearly documents attack chains, business impact, risk severity, and remediation recommendations.
• Serve as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert to security operations, detection engineering, threat hunting, and technology teams.
• Lead purple team engagements to validate detection coverage and improve defensive capabilities.
• Mentor and develop junior Red Team operators while contributing to operational standards, methodologies, and best practices.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives through automation, process optimization, and capability development.

Skills

Threat emulation

Adversarial simulations

Red Team operations

Python

PowerShell

C/C++

Go

Shell scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Cobalt Strike

Metasploit

Mythic

Sliver

Job description

U.S. Bank is seeking a Senior Red Team Operator to lead advanced threat emulation and adversarial simulations across enterprise systems, cloud platforms, and physical security controls. You will develop custom tooling, mentor teammates, and report on risks and remediation with senior leadership.

The role requires 8+ years in information security, a Bachelor's degree or equivalent, and strong expertise in offensive security frameworks and programming. Hybrid work three days on-site.