Senior Red Team Operator – SME

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $90.3k - $189.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

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CACI International Inc

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

10,000+ employees

Founded 1962

🎖️ Defense

🏛️ Government

🔒 Cybersecurity

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $500M Post-IPO Debt on 2026-02

Defense • Government • Cybersecurity

CACI International Inc is a U. S. -based government contractor that provides technologies and professional services to national security, defense, and federal civilian customers. CACI delivers solutions across cyber and digital operations, enterprise IT modernization, electronic warfare, counter-unmanned systems (C-UxS), space and optical communications, agile DevSecOps software development, and mission engineering and logistics support. The company positions itself as a large prime contractor that uses advanced software, analytics, sensing, and hardware to detect and counter evolving threats and modernize government technology architectures.

📋 Description

• Lead assigned red-team engagements from scenario design and rules-of-engagement planning through infrastructure build, execution, deconfliction, reporting, and customer out-briefing • Develop multi-vector campaigns aligned to MITRE ATT&CK and modern APT profiles • Integrate identity-layer exploitation, cloud lateral movement, and infrastructure pivoting • Design and oversee adversary infrastructure, redirectors, command-and-control channels, payload-delivery methods, operator access, logging, and teardown procedures • Construct secure cloud-based attack infrastructure and teardown workflows • Lead hands-on execution of advanced identity, endpoint, network, web, cloud, phishing, defense-evasion, persistence, and exfiltration-simulation techniques when authorized • Mentor junior operators, review tradecraft and scripts, enforce OPSEC and safety controls, and make real-time technical decisions during operations • Review payload/tooling for evasion capabilities within authorized scope • Coordinate with stakeholders to validate detection and response and develop hand-crafted purple-team scenarios • Translate observations into measurable defensive improvements • Own technical quality for operator logs, attack narratives, evidence, mitigation recommendations, assessment reports, and customer out-briefs • Escalate material risks, scope changes, operational impacts, and cross-engagement issues to the Technical Lead • Provide continuous technical assessment support for proactive testing of externally and internally visible federal cyber assets • Conduct continual assessments of .gov domains, subdomains, and internet-facing assets to uncover unknown exposures and validate vulnerabilities • Provide agencies with actionable remediation guidance in support of the CDM Program

🎯 Requirements

• U.S. citizenship is required • 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 • Five or more years of hands-on red-team, defensive-adversary-emulation, or advanced penetration-testing experience • At least two years leading defensive detection engineering activities and engagements or small operator teams • Demonstrated campaign-planning experience across reconnaissance, initial access, credential access, privilege escalation, lateral movement, persistence, command and control, defense evasion, and simulated exfiltration • Advanced experience with C2 frameworks, adversary infrastructure, Active Directory/Entra ID, Windows and Linux tradecraft, cloud attack paths, and operator scripting/tool development • Strong understanding of operational security, deconfliction, legal/ethical boundaries, evidence handling, and safe execution in production environments • Ability to write and technically review assessment reports and deliver clear customer out-briefs to technical and executive audiences • Proficiency with Sliver, Mythic, Havoc, and secure cloud attack architecture • One or more advanced hands-on certifications such as OSEP/OSCE, OSCP, GXPN, GPEN, CRTO/CRTL, CRTP, OSED, or equivalent • Desired: Eight or more years of offensive-security experience, including multi-tenant enterprise or federal engagements • Desired: Payload or tool development in C#, C/C++, Go, Rust, Python, or PowerShell; familiarity with modern EDR/AV bypass and living-off-the-land techniques • Desired: Advanced AWS/Azure identity and cloud tradecraft, container/Kubernetes security, or hybrid-enterprise campaign experience • Desired: Experience facilitating purple-team exercises, detection engineering, or SOC/incident-response validation • Desired: Critical-infrastructure, ICS/OT, federal high-value-asset, or restricted/air-gapped-environment experience

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible time off benefit • Robust learning resources • Healthcare benefits • Wellness benefits • Financial benefits • Retirement benefits • Family support benefits • Continuing education benefits • Time off benefits • Competitive compensation