Senior Principal - Red Team Engineer

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world.

This role provides advanced offensive cybersecurity expertise, focusing on the planning and execution of complex Red Team and Purple Team engagements. You will own the technical planning and delivery of these engagements , from scoping and test plans through execution, remediation verification, and formal reporting.

You will apply deep technical skills and offensive security experience to identify and exploit vulnerabilities in enterprise and cloud environments, helping to strengthen defenses through hands-on testing and analysis. This position involves driving high-impact testing projects, developing new testing methodologies and tools, and contributing to the organization’s overall security posture by uncovering and demonstrating real-world attack paths.

Responsibilities:

• Red Team Operations: Plan and execute full-scope adversary emulation campaigns, conduct multi-stage operations across enterprise environments, and apply disciplined operational tradecraft to achieve defined objectives.
• Purple Team Operations: Partner with detection and defensive teams to validate controls, test detection coverage, and translate offensive activity into measurable defensive improvements.
• Research and Tool Development: Continuously conduct offensive security research and custom tooling development to advance team tradecraft and operational capability.
• AI at Scale: Build and operate AI harnesses , orchestration layers and tooling around LLMs and agentic systems , that power cybersecurity operations, such as automating recon, tradecraft, zero-day hunting, and reporting in red team engagements to boost the speed and reach of operations.

Requirements:

• Hands-on experience in Red Team Operations or Red Team Development. You will be expected to operate at a high level of proficiency, drawing on real-world experience to execute disciplined, effective tradecraft.
• Ability to take ownership of the technical planning and delivery of Red Team and Purple Team engagements , from scoping and test plans through execution, remediation verification, and formal reporting.
• Cloud exploitation: Familiarity with testing and exploiting workloads and configurations in AWS, Azure, and GCP (identity, networking, storage, serverless, IaC).
• Server & client platform familiarity: Strong experience with using and exploiting common server and client platforms. This means primarily Linux and Windows with macOS experience being a plus.
• Programming & automation: Strong programming and tooling skills using Python, Go, Rust, or C/C++ (or equivalent) to automate testing, research new attack vectors, and develop internal Red Team tools.
• Infrastructure & evasion: Experience deploying offensive infrastructure for engagements and evading/demonstrating bypasses of network and host-based controls (WAF, IDS/IPS, EDR).
• Experience level & education: Master’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience. Minimum 9+ years in cybersecurity with substantial focus on offensive security.

Nice-to-have:

• Credited CVE’s, participation in bug bounty programs, security blogging, publicly available quality code or tools.
• Research & innovation: Documented history of meaningful technical research, responsible disclosure, tooling contributions, or industry-visible findings (e.g., novel vulnerabilities, exploit techniques, or defensive improvements).
• Proof of attendance of advanced courses which don’t have an associated certification.

Benefits:

• Health & Wellbeing: We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.
• Personal & Professional Development: We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have , whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.
• Unconditional Inclusion: We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.