Offensive Security Technical Lead

Job Title:

Offensive Security Technical Lead

Job Category:
Information Technology

Time Type:
Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: TS/SCI

Employee Type:
Regular

Percentage of

Travel Required:

Up to 25%

Type of Travel:
Continental US

CACI is seeking an Offensive Security Technical Lead to own technical delivery across the penetration-testing and red-team work streams. This position will provide continuous technical assessment support for full‑time, proactive testing of externally and internally visible federal cyber assets. This expands federal visibility by conducting continual assessments of .gov domains, subdomains, and internet‑facing assets to uncover unknown exposures, validate vulnerabilities, and provide agencies with actionable remediation guidance.

The Technical Lead establishes methodology, approves complex plans and rules of engagement, governs technical risk, allocates specialized expertise across concurrent assessments, resolves escalations, and accepts final technical deliverables while remaining credible and hands‑on with offensive-security tradecraft. This role supports the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) Program’s mission to safeguard and secure cyberspace in an environment where the threat of cyber-attack is continuously growing and evolving and is responsible for enhancing the security, resilience, and reliability of the Nation’s cyber and communications infrastructure.

The CDM Program defends the United States (U.S.) Federal Information Technology (IT) networks from cybersecurity threats by providing continuous monitoring sensors (tools), diagnosis, mitigation tools, and associated services to strengthen the security posture of Government networks.

• Serve as the senior technical authority for penetration testing and red-team delivery across the RFS portfolio; maintain alignment among customer objectives, authorization, safety, methodology, staffing, and deliverables.
• Define and mature assessment standards, rules‑of‑engagement patterns, technical review gates, evidence requirements, severity methodology, reporting expectations, and reusable playbooks.
• Review and approve engagement plans, adversary scenarios, infrastructure designs, tooling exceptions, exploitation approaches, data‑handling controls, and high‑risk technical actions.
• Guide the technical team, assign scarce specialties, mentor staff, conduct technical readiness reviews, and resolve complex cross‑domain problems.
• Provide hands‑on support for the most difficult network, application, Active Directory/identity, cloud, exploit‑development, adversary‑infrastructure, and defense‑evasion challenges.
• Own final technical quality and acceptance for assessment reports, attack‑path narratives, severity decisions, remediation recommendations, customer out‑briefs, and purple‑team scenarios.
• Lead technical customer discussions, communicate mission and business risk, and coordinate with project management on schedule, staffing, dependencies, and issue escalation without assuming administrative PM ownership.
• Capture lessons learned, measure technical quality and repeatability, and evolve the capability as customer processes and tools become known.

• U.S. citizenship is required.
• The selected candidate must meet eligibility requirements for access to sensitive information and be able to obtain a Public Trust fitness determination (High Risk).
• Ability to work in customer‑provided remote environments, use customer‑approved tools, and comply with rules of engagement, data‑handling requirements, evidence controls, deconfliction procedures, and stop‑work criteria.
• Eight or more years of progressively responsible offensive‑security experience, including significant…