Principal Consultant, Red Team; Unit

Principal Consultant, Red Team (Unit 42)

Location:

Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
• Role type:
Sales • : JR-017080

The Principal Consultant on the Offensive Security team is focused on assessing and challenging the security posture across a comprehensive portfolio of clients. The individual will have experience leading Red & Purple team engagements. They will be the client’s advocate for cybersecurity best practices related to offensive security and will provide strong recommendations in this domain.

• Perform client penetration testing to find any vulnerabilities or weaknesses that might be exploited by a malicious party, using open-source, custom, and commercial testing tools - Red Team experience essential.
• Assist in scoping engagements by clearly articulating various penetration approaches and methodologies to technical and executive audiences.
• Generate reports that clearly communicate testing and assessment details, results, and remediation recommendations to clients.
• Develop scripts, tools, and methodologies to automate and streamline internal processes and engagements.
• Conduct periodic scans of networks to find and detect vulnerabilities.
• Perform IT application testing, cybersecurity tool and systems analysis, system and network administration, and systems engineering support for the sustainment of information technology systems (mobile application testing, penetration testing, application, security, and hardware testing).
• Conduct threat hunting and/or compromise assessment engagements to identify active or dormant indicators of compromise (IoCs) using Crypsis and Palo Alto Networks’ threat hunting tools (and/or client‑owned hunting instrumentation where applicable).
• Conduct cloud penetration testing engagements to assess specific workloads (AWS, GCP, Azure, containers, or other PaaS and SaaS instances) for vulnerabilities and attempt to exploit identified weaknesses after permission from client stakeholders.
• Provide recommendations to clients on specific security measures to monitor and protect sensitive data and systems from infiltration and cyber‑attacks, including response and recovery of a data security breach.
• Perform travel as needed to meet business demands.

• 6+ years of professional experience leading Red & Purple team engagements, Advanced Attack Simulations, OSINT research, social engineering techniques, bespoke security assessments and exploit development.
• Experience testing a range of technologies (Active Directory, major OSs, cloud environments, IoT/OT) and using a range of security tools and technologies, including AI‑enabled automation.
• Deep understanding of how malicious software works (malware, trojans, rootkits, etc.).
• Ability to modify known and/or craft custom exploits manually without dependence on consumer tools such as Metasploit.
• Strong knowledge of tools and techniques used to conduct network, wireless, and web application penetration testing.
• Familiarity with web application penetration testing and code auditing to find security gaps and vulnerabilities.
• Experience with penetration testing, administering, and troubleshooting major flavors of Linux, Windows, and major cloud IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS providers (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Experience with scripting and editing code in Perl, Python, Ruby, Bash, C/C++, C#, or Java.
• Experience with security assessment tools, including Nessus, OpenVAS, MobSF, Metasploit, Burp Suite Pro, Cobalt Strike, Bloodhound, and Empire.
• Knowledge of application, database, and web server design and implementation.
• Knowledge of network vulnerability assessments, web and cloud application security testing, network penetration testing, red teaming, security operations, or hunt.
• Knowledge of open security testing standards and projects, including OWASP & MITRE ATT&CK.
• Ability to read and use results of mobile code, malicious code, and anti‑virus software.
• Knowledge of computer forensic tools, technologies, and methods.
• Assist in the development of internal infrastructure design for research, development, and testing focused on offensive security.
• Potential to grow into a valuable contributor to the practice with…