Senior Red Team Operator

US Bank; Minneapolis (MN); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking a Senior Red Team Operator to lead advanced offensive security efforts, including threat emulation exercises, adversarial simulations, and enterprise-wide assessments.

You will develop custom capabilities and mentor team members to strengthen detection, response, and risk management across cloud, on‑premise, and hybrid environments. The role requires deep expertise in exploit development, tooling, and automation, with strong communication skills to convey complex findings to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years in information security.
• Experience leading Red Team engagements, threat emulation, and adversarial simulations.
• Advanced exploit development, payload creation, and automation.
• Experience with offensive security frameworks and cloud security.
• Excellent communication to senior leadership and executives.

Responsibilities

• Lead threat emulation, Red Team, and adversarial simulations replicating sophisticated threat actors.
• Develop custom tools, payloads, exploits, and automation to support Red Team ops.
• Research emerging threats and attacker methodologies to enhance capabilities.
• Design multi-stage attack scenarios evaluating controls, monitoring, and incident response.
• Produce executive and technical reports detailing attack chains, impact, risk, and remediation.
• Mentor junior Red Team operators and strengthen best practices.
• Drive automation and capability development across the team.

Skills

Threat emulation

Adversarial simulations

Attack automation

Executive communication

Mentoring junior staff

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Cobalt Strike

Metasploit

Mythic

Sliver

Job description

At U.S. Bank, we're on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at-all from Day One.

Job Description

The Senior Red Team Operator leads advanced offensive security operations designed to assess and improve the organization's cyber resilience. This role is responsible for conducting sophisticated threat emulation exercises, adversarial simulations, and offensive security assessments across enterprise systems, applications, cloud environments, and physical security domains. The Senior Red Team Operator serves as a technical leader and subject matter expert, driving innovation in offensive security tradecraft, developing custom capabilities, mentoring team members, and partnering with security and business stakeholders to strengthen detection, response, and risk management capabilities.

Key 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.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience
• 8+ years experience in information security

Preferred Qualifications

• Seven or more years of experience in information security, including significant experience in offensive security, penetration testing, or Red Team operations.
• Demonstrated experience leading Red Team engagements, threat emulation exercises, and adversarial simulations within complex enterprise environments.
• Advanced expertise in exploit development, custom payload creation, offensive tooling development, and attack automation.
• Extensive experience with industry-standard offensive security and command-and-control frameworks such as Cobalt Strike, Metasploit, Mythic, Sliver, and similar platforms.
• Proven ability to bypass, evaluate, and assess modern security technologies including EDR, XDR, endpoint protection, and network-based controls.
• Strong proficiency in multiple programming and scripting languages including Python, PowerShell, C/C++, C#, Go, and Shell scripting.
• Deep understanding of enterprise architecture, cloud technologies, application security, network security, identity systems, and emerging cyber threats.
• Experience performing purple team activities and partnering with defensive teams to improve detection and response capabilities.
• Experience leveraging Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation frameworks, and cloud-native technologies.
• Proven ability to identify complex vulnerabilities, develop innovative attack paths, and create proof-of-concept exploits that demonstrate business risk.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to translate highly technical concepts into actionable recommendations for senior leadership and executive stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex offensive security initiatives, influence strategic security decisions, and drive measurable improvements to the organization's security posture.

This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.

If there's anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members' whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect