In conjunction with DoD Red Team Partners, conduct field assessments in accordance with Program ... Positions governed by a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), the McNamara-O'Hara Service Contract ...
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Red Team Cyber Operator
Fort Belvoir, VA · On-site
... of red team assessments, offensive cyber operations, and penetration testing. Oak Grove ... contracts and actively supports veterans through sponsorships and events. Driven by its mission ...
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Red Team Cyber Operator
Fort Belvoir, VA · On-site
... of red team assessments, offensive cyber operations, and penetration testing. Oak Grove ... contracts and actively supports veterans through sponsorships and events. Driven by its mission ...
... contracts and actively supports veterans through sponsorships and events. Driven by its mission ... Perform dynamic analysis, code reviews, troubleshooting, and debugging. * Conduct malware ...
... contracts and actively supports veterans through sponsorships and events. Driven by its mission ... Perform dynamic analysis, code reviews, troubleshooting, and debugging. * Conduct malware ...
Red Team Reviewer
Seattle, WA · On-site +1
Conduct qualitative analyses of conversations to derive taxonomies, personas, and behavioral patterns * Translate red team expertise into structured prompt patterns and evaluation rubrics * Maintain ...
Red Team Reviewer
Seattle, WA · On-site +1
Conduct qualitative analyses of conversations to derive taxonomies, personas, and behavioral patterns * Translate red team expertise into structured prompt patterns and evaluation rubrics * Maintain ...
Senior Red Team WiFi Developer
Fort Belvoir, VA · On-site
$61.75 - $81.50/hr
... contracts and actively supports veterans through sponsorships and events. Driven by its mission ... Perform dynamic analysis, code reviews, troubleshooting, and debugging. * Conduct malware ...
Senior Red Team WiFi Developer
Fort Belvoir, VA · On-site
$61.75 - $81.50/hr
... contracts and actively supports veterans through sponsorships and events. Driven by its mission ... Perform dynamic analysis, code reviews, troubleshooting, and debugging. * Conduct malware ...
... of red team assessments, offensive cyber operations, and penetration testing. Oak Grove ... contracts and actively supports veterans through sponsorships and events. Driven by its mission ...
... of red team assessments, offensive cyber operations, and penetration testing. Oak Grove ... contracts and actively supports veterans through sponsorships and events. Driven by its mission ...
Red Team Reviewer
Seattle, WA · Remote
Conduct qualitative analyses of conversations to derive taxonomies, personas, and behavioral patterns * Translate red team expertise into structured prompt patterns and evaluation rubrics * Maintain ...
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Red Team Reviewer
Seattle, WA · Remote
Conduct qualitative analyses of conversations to derive taxonomies, personas, and behavioral patterns * Translate red team expertise into structured prompt patterns and evaluation rubrics * Maintain ...
Red Team Software Developer
Fort Belvoir, VA · On-site
$148K - $266K/yr
Our team is only looking for the best and brightest though - you'll get the opportunity to showcase your skills at contract start by passing our team's red team developer assessment test. What You'll ...
Red Team Software Developer
Fort Belvoir, VA · On-site
$148K - $266K/yr
Our team is only looking for the best and brightest though - you'll get the opportunity to showcase your skills at contract start by passing our team's red team developer assessment test. What You'll ...
Red Team Reviewer
Seattle, WA · On-site
$110K - $142K/yr
Conduct qualitative analyses of conversations to derive taxonomies, personas, and behavioral patterns * Translate red team expertise into structured prompt patterns and evaluation rubrics * Maintain ...
Red Team Reviewer
Seattle, WA · On-site
$110K - $142K/yr
Conduct qualitative analyses of conversations to derive taxonomies, personas, and behavioral patterns * Translate red team expertise into structured prompt patterns and evaluation rubrics * Maintain ...
Red Team Engineer
Quincy, MA · On-site
$120K - $202K/yr
Demonstrated analytical ability to identify core issues, interpret risk, and propose practical ... red-team activities. * Broad experience with networks, operating systems, cloud, and security ...
Red Team Engineer
Quincy, MA · On-site
$120K - $202K/yr
Demonstrated analytical ability to identify core issues, interpret risk, and propose practical ... red-team activities. * Broad experience with networks, operating systems, cloud, and security ...
Red Team Software Developer
Fort Belvoir, VA · On-site
$148K - $266K/yr
Our team is only looking for the best and brightest though - you'll get the opportunity to showcase your skills at contract start by passing our team's red team developer assessment test. What You'll ...
Red Team Software Developer
Fort Belvoir, VA · On-site
$148K - $266K/yr
Our team is only looking for the best and brightest though - you'll get the opportunity to showcase your skills at contract start by passing our team's red team developer assessment test. What You'll ...
... contracts and actively supports veterans through sponsorships and events. Driven by its mission ... Perform dynamic analysis, code reviews, troubleshooting, and debugging. * Conduct malware ...
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... contracts and actively supports veterans through sponsorships and events. Driven by its mission ... Perform dynamic analysis, code reviews, troubleshooting, and debugging. * Conduct malware ...
San Jose, CA (Onsite)Need Locals Duration: 12+ Months Contract Position Summary We are seeking a ... Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. * Ability to think like an attacker while maintaining ...
San Jose, CA (Onsite)Need Locals Duration: 12+ Months Contract Position Summary We are seeking a ... Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. * Ability to think like an attacker while maintaining ...
Red Team Security Engineer
San Francisco, CA · On-site
$130K - $205K/yr
... contracts. Astranis is the preferred satellite communications partner for buyers with stringent ... Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a creative and unconventional mindset. * Ability ...
Red Team Security Engineer
San Francisco, CA · On-site
$130K - $205K/yr
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This position is contingent upon winning contract award. Key Responsibilities * Plan and execute ... analysis. * Use and extend common pentest frameworks and tools (Kali, Metasploit, Nmap, Cobalt ...
This position is contingent upon winning contract award. Key Responsibilities * Plan and execute ... analysis. * Use and extend common pentest frameworks and tools (Kali, Metasploit, Nmap, Cobalt ...
... of red team assessments, offensive cyber operations, and penetration testing. Oak Grove ... contracts and actively supports veterans through sponsorships and events. Driven by its mission ...
... of red team assessments, offensive cyber operations, and penetration testing. Oak Grove ... contracts and actively supports veterans through sponsorships and events. Driven by its mission ...
Red Team Cyber Analyst
Fort Belvoir, VA · On-site
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Red Team Cyber Analyst
Fort Belvoir, VA · On-site
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Our elite team of over 300 professionals brings an unmatched record of performance across Red Team ... Experience in using network protocol analyzers and sniffers, as well as ability to decipher packet ...
Our elite team of over 300 professionals brings an unmatched record of performance across Red Team ... Experience in using network protocol analyzers and sniffers, as well as ability to decipher packet ...
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Red Team Intelligence Analyst with a strong background in exploit and tool development to support advanced penetration testing and offensive security ...
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Red Team Intelligence Analyst with a strong background in exploit and tool development to support advanced penetration testing and offensive security ...
Sr. Red Team Specialist
Chicago, IL · Hybrid
Mentoring junior analysts and contributing to skills development across the security operations team The ideal candidate has * 5+ years of experience in red teaming, penetration testing, or offensive ...
Sr. Red Team Specialist
Chicago, IL · Hybrid
Mentoring junior analysts and contributing to skills development across the security operations team The ideal candidate has * 5+ years of experience in red teaming, penetration testing, or offensive ...
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| Certifications | OSCP, CEH, CISSP | OSCP, CEH, GPEN |
| Work Environment | Simulated attack scenarios, security assessments | Vulnerability scanning, exploit testing |
| Employer & Industry Usage | Cybersecurity firms, government agencies | Security consulting firms, IT departments |
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Full-time
Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Retirement, PTO
Posted 18 days ago
Job description
RED CELL ANALYST: Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Fort Belvoir, VA
The Analyst is responsible for gathering information based on program objectives, identifying gaps in information gathering, analysis, and course of action development pertaining to the assessment. The Analyst is responsible for researching, reviewing, editing, planning, preparing, integrating and publishing all-source studies, plans, and/or products relating to specific programs.
Responsibilities/Tasks
The Analyst shall:
Characterize the adversary. Research the structure, ideology, intentions, tactics, and capabilities of adversarial organizations to develop threat characterization using a combination of both classified and unclassified sources.
Contribute constructively to threat emulation. Identify information requirements, develop assessment strategies and collection plans, identify information sources, and develop and conduct research of publically available information (PAI) in order to determine adversary courses of action and relevant information requirements (IR).
Analyze. Characterize systems and conduct analysis appropriate to the program, identify essential functions/tasks and critical assets necessary to perform them as determined by the program leader.
Contribute to developing adversary courses of action (CoA). Develop courses of action an adversary might employ against customer personnel, equipment, facilities, networks, information and information systems, infrastructure, and supply chains. Identify critical nodes/links or other targets and the effects of other environmental characteristics on course of action development.
Facilitate timely information management flow from DoD Red Team partners and other entities supporting DoD Red Team operations.
Support field assessments from an adversary perspective. In conjunction with DoD Red Team Partners, conduct field assessments in accordance with Program Plans, operations orders, and other directives at the discretion of the Government Program Manager and approval of the Contractor Program Manager.
Synthesize findings to support vulnerability identification, course of action development, protection studies, trend analyses, risk analysis, and mitigation strategies.
Develop a comprehensive understanding of the implications of vulnerabilities discovered by the other specialists and fuse those findings with the systems analysis and determine impacts to the national and military missions they support.
Prepare activity reports including out briefs, senior leader briefs, interim progress reports (IPRs) and briefs, white papers, after action reviews, final reports, risk analysis products, and other documents necessary to convey assessment findings to customers, partners, and other stakeholders.
Required Skills/Qualifications
A minimum of a High School diploma coupled with4years' experience as an intelligence analyst.
An active TS/SCI clearance
Experience in a role commensurate with the position description and responsibilities. At a minimum, personnel shall have expertise in one or more of the following areas:
All Source Analyst
Information Operations/Counterintelligence Analyst
Geo-Spatial Analysis
Network Analyst (Physical)
Threat/Target Analysis
Cyber Analyst (Logical)
Insider Threat Analyst
Financial/Contracting/Business Analyst
Social Media/Big Data/Deep (Dark) Web Analyst
Freedom of Information Act/Declassified Document Researcher
Supply Chain/Logistics Analyst
Proficient in understanding, analyzing and summarizing comprehensive and complex technical, contractual, and research information/data.
Demonstrated expertise performing information/data collection, analysis, and fusion.
Excellent analytical, communications-both oral and written, and project management experience.
Compensation Details:
115000The compensation range or hourly rate listed for this position is provided as a good-faith estimate of what the company intends to offer for this role at the time this posting was issued. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as job responsibilities, education, experience, skills, internal equity, market data, applicable collective bargaining agreements, and relevant laws.
Benefits Overview:
Our health and welfare benefits are designed to support you and your priorities. Offerings include:
Health, dental, and vision insurance
Paid time off and holidays
Retirement benefits (including 401(k) matching)
Educational reimbursement
Parental leave
Employee stock purchase plan
Tax-saving options
Disability and life insurance
Pet insurance
Note: Benefits may vary based on employment type, location, and applicable agreements. Positions governed by a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), the McNamara-O'Hara Service Contract Act (SCA), or other employment contracts may include different provisions/benefits.
Original Posting:
04/22/2026 - Until FilledAmentum anticipates this job requisition will remain open for at least three days, with a closing date no earlier than three days after the original posting. This timeline may change based on business needs.
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