Red Team Security Analyst

Job Title: Red Team Security Analyst

Location: Atlanta, GA or Birmingham, AL (Will be hybrid next year)
Employment Type: Contract, Potential Contract to Hire (40 hours)
Department: Cybersecurity / Offensive Security

Compensation: $50-60/hr W2 only

About the Role

We are seeking a highly tenacious Red Team Security Analyst with strong threat-hunting instincts and deep offensive security expertise. In this role, you will proactively identify, exploit, and validate vulnerabilities across our environments, simulate real-world adversaries, and provide clear, actionable recommendations to improve our security posture. You will work cross-functionally with security, engineering, and leadership teams to prioritize remediation efforts and strengthen our defenses.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct full-spectrum red team operations, including reconnaissance, exploitation, lateral movement, privilege escalation, and data exfiltration simulations.
• Perform advanced threat hunting to detect sophisticated attacker behaviors, identify weaknesses, and uncover hidden risks across systems, networks, and applications.
• Exploit validated vulnerabilities to demonstrate realistic business impact and support risk-based prioritization.
• Develop and execute custom attack scenarios aligned with current threat intelligence and emerging TTPs.
• Produce clear, detailed reports and present findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Recommend prioritized remediation steps based on exploitability, impact, and threat likelihood.
• Collaborate with blue team and engineering groups to validate fixes, refine detection capabilities, and support purple-team exercises.
• Continuously research new vulnerabilities, offensive tools, and adversary tradecraft to maintain cutting-edge skills.
• Help mature red teaming methodologies, tooling, processes, and documentation.

Qualifications

Required:

• 3 7 years of experience in red teaming, penetration testing, threat hunting, or offensive security.
• Strong hands-on experience with exploitation techniques, post-exploitation frameworks, and manual testing methodologies.
• Proficiency with tools such as Cobalt Strike, Metasploit, Burp Suite, Kali Linux, BloodHound, etc.
• Solid understanding of MITRE ATT&CK, adversary emulation, and cyber kill chain concepts.
• Familiarity with Windows, Linux, and cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform).
• Experience analyzing logs and telemetry to support threat hunting or detection engineering.
• Ability to communicate complex security findings clearly and concisely.
• Demonstrated tenacity, curiosity, and a break things to make them better mindset.

Preferred:

• Offensive certifications (e.g., OSCP, OSCE, OSEP, CRTO, CEH, GPEN).
• Experience scripting in Python, PowerShell, or Bash.
• Background working in enterprise-scale environments.
• Knowledge of EDR evasion techniques and custom payload development.

Why Join Us

• Opportunity to directly influence the security maturity of a growing organization.
• Ability to engage in challenging adversarial simulations and high-impact projects.
• Collaborative culture with room to innovate and experiment.

The compensation range for this position is $50 to $60/hr W2

(dependent on factors including but not limited to client requirements, experience, statutory considerations, and location).

*Note: Disclosure as required by the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act (CO), NYC Pay Transparency Law, and sb5761 (WA)

Synergis is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, age, gender, gender identity, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, military/veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law.

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