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• Execute hands-on red team operations simulating real-world threat actors across applications, platforms, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise environments.
• Identify, exploit, and chain high-impact vulnerabilities and weaknesses to achieve defined attacker goals.
• Perform advanced offensive activities, including:
  • Manual exploitation and attack chaining
  • Abuse of identity, authorization, and trust relationships
  • Bypassing security controls and detections
• Contribute to the design and execution of end-to-end attack campaigns under the guidance of the Red Team Director.
• Develop a deep understanding of products and systems through the lens of adversary abuse and exploitation.
• Collaborate closely with:
  • Detection & Response teams to test alerts, visibility, and response workflows
  • Incident Response teams during simulated incidents
  • Engineering and platform teams to explain exploitation paths and root causes
• Produce clear, technically detailed findings that translate into actionable remediation guidance.
• Contribute to tooling, automation, and tradecraft improvements, including collaboration with the AI-Automation team.
• Share knowledge and mentor junior red team engineers, helping raise overall tradecraft quality.

• Deep hands-on experience in offensive security, red teaming, or high-impact penetration testing.
• Proven experience executing complex offensive engagements in production-like environments.
• Strong understanding of:
  • Adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs)
  • Identity and access abuse
  • Application and infrastructure attack chains
  • Cloud and hybrid enterprise attack surfaces
• Hands-on experience with:
  • Manual exploitation and attack chaining
  • Writing custom scripts, tooling, or payloads
  • Bypassing security controls and detections
• Ability to clearly articulate:
  • How attacks were performed
  • Why defenses failed
  • What mitigations will meaningfully reduce risk
• Strong communication skills and experience collaborating with security and engineering teams.

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