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Cyber Red Team Operator

Job in Virginia, St. Louis County, Minnesota, 55792, USA
Listing for: BreakPoint Labs LLC
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-02-07
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    Cybersecurity, Network Security
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Break Point Labs is seeking Cyber Red Team Operators to support a Department of Defense client by emulating potential nation-state peer adversary cyber reconnaissance, exploitation techniques, and attack capabilities against a targeted mission, system, network, component, or capability. Successful candidates will be passionate about offensive cyber operations and the technical disciplines involved in emulating sophisticated adversarial activity to demonstrate cyber risk-to-mission.

Responsibilities include:

  • Plan and execute computer network operations against U.S. government organizations worldwide to strengthen information system security, identify intrusions and vulnerabilities, and recommend mitigation strategies.
  • Maintain operational, technical, and authoritative situational awareness during threat emulation-based exploitation and operations.
  • Perform advanced penetration tests against U.S. government organizations as required.
  • Perform remote operations from Ft. Belvoir, VA, and/or travel to and perform operations on-site at various locations.
  • Produce and present formal and informal reports, briefings, and perspectives on adversarial behavior and attacks against target systems, technologies, operations, and missions provided to customers, including DoD Senior Leaders.
  • Write high-level technical reports and develop and present briefings documenting findings, concerns, trends, and implications for DoD officials and customers, enabling personnel to consider the most significant technical and high-level factors when committing DoD resources to mitigate identified vulnerabilities and threats to critical national assets, networks, and systems.
  • Provide mentorship to other Cyber Red Team Members.
  • Support the development of Cyber Red Team training modules, standard operating procedures, assessment planning, assessment reporting, white papers, briefs, and other technical documentation.

Experience:

  • Offensive security or significant penetration testing experience.
  • Ability to communicate complex technical and programmatic information, often in the form of verbal and visual operational updates, situational awareness reports, and briefings.
  • Ability and willingness to complete client technical aptitude test to validate minimum technical proficiency level.
  • DoD Cyber Team experience (desired, not required).
  • Expertise in anti-virus evasion, EDR evasion, offensive infrastructure, phishing and social engineering campaigns, and/or penetration testing of critical infrastructure, networking, IoT, and wireless devices (desired, not required).
  • Cyber Red Team professional certifications and training (desired, not required):
    • Red Team Apprentice Course (RTAC)
    • Red Team Journeyman Course (RTJC)
    • Certified Red Team Operator (CRTO) certification
    • Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)
    • Rogue Ops
      - Red Team 1 (ROPS)
    • GIAC Exploit Researcher & Advanced Penetration Tester (GXPN)
    • GIAC Penetration Tester (GPEN)
    • GIAC Web Application Penetration Tester (GWAP)

Certifications:

  • Must hold one of the following DoD 8140/8570 IAT Level III certifications:
    • Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
    • Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
    • GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH)
    • GIAC Certified Enterprise Defender (GCED)
    • CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP)

Security Clearance: Ability to obtain a DoD TS/SCI.

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