Red Team Specialist Role - Cybersecurity

Red Team Specialist Role

6 months hybrid project in Mesa AZ

Profile

The Red Team Specialist will collaborate closely with various teams to ensure that clients s security measures are effective; and provide assurance that our defenses can withstand sophisticated threats. The Red Team Specialist s responsibilities will include simulating cyber-attacks to identify vulnerabilities and weaknesses within our systems, networks, and applications. It will also include providing purple team consulting services to validate vulnerabilities and security risk in business-critical systems. The Red Team Specialist will be part of the cybersecurity team and assist with other engagements that support the maturation or the program.

Key Responsibilities

• Penetration Testing

• Ability to conduct self-guided penetration test and vulnerability assessments of servers, web applications, web services, and databases.
• Ability to communicate technical findings and remediation efforts with various audiences which include developers, system administrators, project managers, and senior stakeholders.
• Ability supports strategic partnerships across group, develop a trusting, and collaborative working environment.
• Ability to manage 3rd party penetration test vendor relationships, test schedules, execute and apply clients internal penetration testing framework.
• Manage penetration test services throughout the clients application onboarding lifecycle.
• Ability to lead remediation efforts related to identified vulnerabilities, system misconfigurations, and regulatory compliance issues.
• Manage deliverables, provide supporting evidence to defend all findings to include the risk or vulnerability, mitigation strategies, and references.
• Provide effective spot-checking and testing of existing server technical security controls.

• Red Teaming

• Examine the full spectrum of vulnerabilities including people, processes, and technologies associated with operational networks and programs. This includes executing red team threat emulation activities leveraging industry framework such as MITRE ATT&CK.
• Ability to develop and execute POCs (proof of concepts) highlighting the ease of exploitation.
• Develop and manage attack C2 infrastructure (command and control) such as Cobalt Strike, Empire, Covenant, and Brute Ratel leveraged for red team engagements.
• Continuously test controls and validate the effectiveness of security controls through mechanisms such as phishing awareness campaigns.
• Provide technical findings, key performance indicators, and executive reports which highlight and clearly articulate identified strengths, gaps, and opportunities. Provide guidance to the security operations team on adversary techniques and procedures (TTPs) to increase the security operations awareness and response times
• Utilize skills, knowledge, and experience to be a catalyst for threat centric organizational change, through respect, trust, and influence.
• Manage risk during engagements based on sensitive data, mission critical systems, and possibility of system outages.
• Develop scripts, tools, or methodologies to enhance clients capabilities.

• Purple Teaming / Vulnerability Validation

• Manage purple team exercises in effort to bring collaboration between Security, Operations, and the Business Units to validate technical controls and remediation efforts.
• Provide guidance on vulnerabilities using a risk-based approach; ease of exportation; and exposure.
• Identify opportunities for improvement in systems such as Security Scorecard and provide validation for remediation efforts.
• This role will also participate in incident response activities such as tabletop exercises and major incident remediation.

Experience and Education

• Required

• Experience with performing white and grey box penetration testing and system exploitation against desktops, servers, applications, operating systems, and physical security systems including security assessment.
• Experience with conducting penetration and malicious user testing in Cloud environments, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, and on-premises systems.
• Excellent knowledge of Windows/AD/Linux systems administration and vulnerabilities
• Strong familiarity with OWASP Top Ten, NIST, and MITRE ATT&CK
• Hands-on experience with using penetration testing and red teaming software frameworks (Cobalt Strike, Kali, etc.) Knowledge of network technologies and protocols (OSI model, routing, building, and troubleshooting networks, etc.)
• Proficient in (1) scripting languages, i.e. Bash, PowerShell, Python
• Capability to be persistent and creative in solving complex and challenging problems.

• Preferred

• (2) Practical Penetration certifications: OSCP, eCPTX, eCPPX, PNPT, GPEN, eCXD
• (1) Practical Defense certifications: BTL1, BTL2
• 2 plus of experience in or cyber security performing Penetration Testing or Red Teaming.
• 2 plus years of demonstrating experience in planning and executing penetration tests/red team exercises against web applications, containers, APIs, network devices, databases, operating systems, and various cloud technologies.
• 1+ years SOC and incident response experience, with particular focus on host data acquisition and threat hunting.
• Experience with NIST 800-53 and Risk Management Framework
• Bachelor s degree in computer science, engineering, or information systems.