Senior Red Team Engineer / Hybrid / Scottsdale

Senior Red Team Engineer / Hybrid / Scottsdale


Job ID: mrp-877169

Scottsdale, AZ, US

Cybersecurity

Full Time, Full Time

$132000 - $165000

On-site

Other/Non Classified

Scottsdale, AZ, US

$132000 - $165000

Full Time, Full Time

Other/Non Classified

On-site

Cybersecurity

Job details

About the Role:
We’re hiring a Senior Red Team Engineer to join a trusted payments technology company that powers and protects major financial products used by millions of consumers. This is a hybrid role based in Scottsdale, focused on offensive security, adversary emulation, purple team testing, cloud/web/network campaigns, and real-world attack simulation.

Why This Role Rocks:
This is a high-impact offensive security role where you’ll be identifying emerging threats, building proof-of-concept attacks, testing enterprise defenses, and helping security teams understand real-world blast radius. You’ll work across red team campaigns, purple team exercises, exploit development, cloud security, detection evasion, and threat replication in a highly regulated financial technology environment.

Required Skills & Experience:

  • 6+ years of information security experience
  • 2+ years of hands-on offensive security experience
  • Red team campaign and adversary emulation experience
  • Experience with network, cloud, and web application security testing
  • Ability to develop exploits and execute attacks at scale
  • Strong scripting experience with Python, PowerShell, and/or Go
  • Knowledge of threat modeling, cloud security, cryptography, authentication, authorization, and defensive detection techniques
  • Experience writing reports and presenting findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Strong understanding of vulnerability impact, blast radius, and real-world exploitability
  • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent professional experience

Desired Skills & Experience:

  • Experience with adversary emulation toolsets
  • Ability to take a single vulnerability and assess organization-wide impact
  • MITRE ATT&CK, MITRE CAPEC, and Cyber Kill Chain experience
  • Mobile application security testing experience
  • Offensive security certifications such as OSCP, ePTX, GPEN, HTB CPTS, or similar
  • Cloud security certifications such as AWS SAA, AWS SAP, AWS Security Specialty, or equivalent

What You Will Be Doing:

Tech Breakdown:

  • 30% Red team campaigns and adversary emulation
  • 20% Purple team exercises and control efficacy testing
  • 15% Cloud, web, and network security testing
  • 15% Exploit development, scripting, and automation
  • 10% Vulnerability impact and blast-radius analysis
  • 10% Reporting, remediation guidance, and security team collaboration

Daily Responsibilities:

  • 50% Hands-on offensive security testing, attack simulation, and vulnerability validation
  • 25% Building scripts, tools, proof-of-concepts, and automation to support engagements
  • 15% Partnering with internal security, incident response, and threat intelligence teams
  • 10% Reporting findings, documenting risk, and presenting remediation recommendations

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