Senior Red Team Operator & Adversary-Emulation Expert

NEPSE Trading; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

CACI seeks a Senior Red Team Operator to lead adversary-emulation engagements across multi-vector campaigns, aligned to MITRE ATT&CK. You will design infrastructure, execute realistic campaigns, and deliver actionable remediation guidance while maintaining strict OPSEC and safety controls.

You will mentor junior operators, review tooling, and coordinate with stakeholders to validate detections, reports, and out-briefs for federal CDM program assets.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on red-team or defensive-adversary-emulation experience.
• At least 2 years leading defensive detection engineering or small operator teams.
• Experience across recon, initial access, credential access, privilege escalation, lateral movement, persistence, C2, defense evasion, and exfiltration.
• Proficiency with Windows, Linux, Active Directory/Entra ID, cloud attack paths, and operator scripting/tool development.
• Ability to write and review assessment reports and deliver clear customer out-briefs.

Responsibilities

• Lead assigned red-team engagements from scenario design and rules-of-engagement planning through infrastructure build, execution, deconfliction, reporting, and customer out-briefing.
• Develop multi-vector campaigns aligned to MITRE ATT&CK and modern APT profiles, integrating identity-layer exploitation, cloud lateral movement, and infrastructure pivoting.
• Design and oversee adversary infrastructure, redirectors, C2 channels, payload delivery, operator access, logging, and teardown procedures.
• Construct secure cloud-based attack infrastructure and teardown workflows; lead hands-on execution of advanced techniques when authorized.
• Mentor junior operators, review tradecraft and scripts, enforce OPSEC, and make real-time tactical decisions during operations.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to validate detection and response, and translate observations into measurable defensive improvements.

Job description

CACI seeks a Senior Red Team Operator to lead adversary-emulation engagements across multi-vector campaigns, aligned to MITRE ATT&CK. You will design infrastructure, execute realistic campaigns, and deliver actionable remediation guidance while maintaining strict OPSEC and safety controls.

You will mentor junior operators, review tooling, and coordinate with stakeholders to validate detections, reports, and out-briefs for federal CDM program assets.