Offensive Security Technical Lead

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $105.1k - $231.1k / year

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CACI International Inc

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1962

💼 Consulting

🎖️ Defense

Consulting • Defense • IT

CACI International Inc is a diversified company that provides a wide range of services and solutions primarily to the U. S. government and commercial sectors. CACI specializes in offering security services, IT solutions, and intelligence support, helping clients enhance their cyber capabilities and secure their networks. The company is recognized for its innovative workforce and the technology it provides to clients in enterprise and mission-critical environments. CACI is committed to diversity and inclusion, offering an array of career opportunities for both new graduates and experienced professionals, including veterans.

📋 Description

• Own technical delivery across penetration-testing and red-team workstreams • 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 • Uncover unknown exposures, validate vulnerabilities, and provide actionable remediation guidance • Establish methodology, approve complex plans and rules of engagement, govern technical risk, allocate specialized expertise, resolve escalations, and accept final technical deliverables • Serve as 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 • Lead, guide, assign specialties, mentor staff, conduct technical readiness reviews, and resolve complex cross-domain problems • Provide hands-on support for 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 and communicate mission and business risk • 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 • Support the CDM Program mission to safeguard and secure cyberspace and strengthen the security posture of U.S. Government networks

🎯 Requirements

• U.S. citizenship is required • No security clearance is required to begin employment • Must meet eligibility requirements for access to sensitive or classified information and obtain a Department of Homeland Security Entrance on Duty (DHS EOD) authorization • 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 hands-on penetration testing and red-team/adversary-emulation delivery • Five or more years leading complex technical engagements, multiple concurrent assessments, or senior offensive-security teams • Expert ability to scope and govern safe testing across enterprise networks, applications/APIs, Windows/Active Directory and identity, Linux, AWS/Azure, external attack surfaces, and production environments • Demonstrated technical authority in rules of engagement, operational risk, deconfliction, exploit validation, evidence quality, severity decisions, report acceptance, and customer out-briefing • Strong scripting, automation, or tool-development capability and judgment to approve or reject high-risk technical methods • One or more advanced hands-on certifications such as OSEP/OSCE, OSWE, GXPN, GPEN, OSED/OSEE, CRTO/CRTL, or equivalent expert-level experience • Travel up to 25% in Continental US • Desired: Twelve or more years across offensive security, security research, adversary emulation, or technical-assessment leadership • Desired experience leading CISA, DHS, federal high-value-asset, critical-infrastructure, ICS/OT, or similarly sensitive assessment programs • Desired experience maturing an offensive-security program, establishing quality metrics, developing training, or building repeatable technical delivery standards • Desired advanced cloud, identity, exploit-development, malware/payload, detection-engineering, or purple-team expertise • Desired ability to brief senior government leadership and translate technical attack paths into operational and mission risk

🏖️ 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 • Learning and development opportunities