Red Team Operator 

 

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Position Summary:

 

Red Cyber Operator shall emulate a potential adversary's cyber reconnaissance, exploitation techniques, and attack capabilities against a targeted mission, system, network, component, or capability. Develop and use malware, pivoting, escalating privileges to test the organization's security effectiveness. Ensure that Red Team operations performed on production environments are done in a safe and responsible manner.  Additional skills required for this position are as follows 

 

Responsibilities/Tasks:

  • 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.
  • Develop threat emulation TTPs. Identify information requirements, develop assessment strategies and collection plans, identify information sources, and develop and conduct research of publicly available information (PAI) to determine adversary courses of action and relevant information requirements (I.R.).
  • Analyze and characterize targeted mission, system, network, component, or capability and conduct analysis appropriate to the program, identify essential functions/tasks and critical assets necessary to perform them as determined by the program leader.
  • Develop courses of action an adversary could employ in and through cyberspace directed against customer personnel, equipment, facilities, networks, information and information systems, infrastructure, and supply chains.
  • Execute threat emulative cyberspace operations against client networks or systems in accordance with rules of engagement
  • 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 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 customer assessment findings, partners, and other stakeholders. 

Required Skills/Qualifications

  • Possess a Bachelor's (B.S.) degree in Computer Science, Computer Forensics, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
  • With a B.S., possess a minimum of 2 years demonstrated operational experience in the military, other Federal Government or comparable civilian position in Cyberspace Operations (Offensive Cyberspace Operations, Defensive Cyberspace Operations, and Cyberspace Exploitation) Cyber Red Team, Penetration Testing, and/or Information Operations (I.O.).
  • Demonstrated experience with at least one automation scripting language (Powershell, Python, Perl, Ruby, Java, etc.)
  • Current active TS SCI clearance
  • A combination of vocational and/or military certifications plus two (2) to five (5) years' experience may be substituted for a degree or eight (8) years of related experience.
  • Junior level experience required

Possess at least ONE (1) of the following certifications based on DoD 8570.1-M requirements at a minimum IAT Level II:

  • CompTIA Security + CE
  • CySA+ (CSA)
  • Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
  • GICSP
  • GSEC
  • SSCP
  • CCNA Security
  • GSNA
  • CISA 

Requirements:

  • Must be a U.S. citizen
  • Adhere to CDC recommended immunizations for worldwide deployment.
  • Be able to travel on short notice, work non-standard hours and take on-call duty.
  • Obtain a Passport.
  • Possess effective oral and written communication skills.
  • Expert knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite. Ability to prepare written reports, white papers, and Power-Point presentations.
  • Be capable of operating in all operational and physical environments and work collaboratively and professionally with USG military and/or civilian personnel

 

Cask is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with a disability.

 

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