Red Team Lead

Job-: IT

Location:

Cleveland, OH, United States Posted:
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Employment Category:
Full-time regular

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No

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The Threat Management Red Team Lead is a cybersecurity leader responsible for defining, building, and leading the enterprise adversary emulation program. This role establishes strategy aligned to business risk and threat intelligence while overseeing execution of complex, end-to-end attack simulations across the enterprise. The Red Team Lead ensures the organization’s security controls are effectively validated against realistic threat scenarios and drives measurable improvements in detection and response capabilities.

This role requires a blend of deep technical expertise, program leadership, and strong cross-functional coordination across SOC, Threat Intelligence, Detection Engineering, and Application Security.
This role reports directly to the Senior Manager – Threat Management Qualifications

Education and Experience

Required:

Bachelor’s Degree (or foreign equivalent) or in lieu of a degree, at least 12 years in experience in the field of Information Technology or Business (work experience or a combination of education and work experience in the field of Information Technology or Business) Relevant certifications such as OSCP, OSEP, CRTO, GXPN, GPEN, CISSP or similar are preferred. 8+ years IT/Cybersecurity experience.

Proven experience leading or building a Red Team or adversary simulation program. Strong expertise in adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK. Extensive experience planning and executing advanced red team operations in enterprise environments. Experience coordinating across multiple security disciplines including SOC, Detection Engineering, and Incident Response. Strong understanding of enterprise security architecture including identity, endpoints, networks, and cloud platforms.

Experience with full attack lifecycle including social engineering, lateral movement, persistence, and ransomware scenarios. Strong communication skills with the ability to translate technical findings into business risk. Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship

Must be at least eighteen (18) years of age Preferred:

Experience with command-and-control frameworks (e.g., Sliver, Cobalt Strike, Mythic, or similar). Familiarity with identity and Active Directory attack tooling (e.g., Blood Hound, Impacket, Mimikatz).

Experience with cloud attack techniques and platforms. Experience building and managing red team infrastructure and tooling ecosystems. Exposure to adversary emulation validation platforms (e.g., Safe Breach). Experience leading purple team or detection validation exercises. Responsibilities Define and lead the enterprise adversary simulation strategy aligned to business risk, threat intelligence, and emerging threats. Build, mature, and continuously improve the Red Team program, including methodologies, tooling, and engagement frameworks.

Oversee planning and execution of complex attack scenarios across enterprise environments, ensuring realistic end-to-end adversary simulation. Validate effectiveness of preventive, detective, and response controls through full attack chain execution. Drive cross-team collaboration with SOC, Threat Intelligence, Detection Engineering, Application Security, and Security Champions to remediate gaps. Lead purple team exercises to strengthen detection and response capabilities. Ensure findings are tracked, prioritized by risk, remediated, and retested for validation.

Translate threat intelligence and business risk into prioritized adversary scenarios. Deliver clear, risk-based…