Senior Red Team Operator: Threat Emulation & Purple Team

TransUnion; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 113,000 - 188,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Parental leave

401(k) with match

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

TransUnion is seeking a highly skilled Red Teamer to join its Information Security team. This remote role may require occasional in-person events and reports to a Director of Cybersecurity.

You will perform threat emulation, purple-team exercises, and adversary emulation to uncover vulnerabilities across systems, networks, and cloud environments. We expect 5+ years in red team/penetration testing, strong privilege escalation and lateral movement skills, and experience with phishing and social

Qualifications

• 5+ years in penetration testing and red team work.
• Ability to compromise, escalate privileges, move laterally.
• Experience with phishing and social engineering.
• Basic development skills to create custom tools.

Responsibilities

• Conduct threat emulation exercises and red team operations.
• Collaborate on purple team exercises to test security posture.
• Perform lateral movement and privilege escalation testing.
• Develop custom scripts and tools to enhance operations.
• Document findings and present risk-based recommendations.
• Test cloud environments and their configurations.

Skills

Red team operations

Privilege escalation

Lateral movement

Phishing techniques

Social engineering

Python scripting

Git basics

Tools

Python

Bash

Git

Job description

TransUnion is seeking a highly skilled Red Teamer to join its Information Security team. This remote role may require occasional in-person events and reports to a Director of Cybersecurity.

You will perform threat emulation, purple-team exercises, and adversary emulation to uncover vulnerabilities across systems, networks, and cloud environments. We expect 5+ years in red team/penetration testing, strong privilege escalation and lateral movement skills, and experience with phishing and social