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Senior Engineer - Red Team Operator

Target Brooklyn Park, MN senior full-time

Salary

$98,000 - $176,000 per year

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Description

Join Target's Cyber Fusion Center as a Senior Engineer - Red Team Operator, working on operations that drive real change by leveraging adversary behavior to communicate discovered risk effectively.

As a Red Team Senior Engineer, you will conduct operations, contribute to the team, and influence team direction.

Responsibilities:

  • Execute adversary emulation and simulation operations
  • Bypass preventative and detective controls to accomplish operational goals
  • Conduct research into real-world threat actors, techniques, and procedures to develop and document proof-of-concept tools and playbooks
  • Partner with the cybersecurity Incident Response Team, Threat Management, and other stakeholders in the organization to identify improvement opportunities
  • Collaborate with Cyber Threat Intelligence, Detection, and Threat Hunting engineers and analysts on research
  • Work with non-security engineering teams to educate and collaborate on operational objectives

Requirements:

  • 4-year degree or equivalent experience
  • 3+ years minimum experience in technology, with time in offensive security or defensive preferred
  • Strong offensive security knowledge
  • Proficiency in Windows, Linux, or Mac internals and native tools
  • Demonstrates understanding of the impact of Red Team work on an organization and its customers
  • Seeks out cross-functional collaboration opportunities
  • Designs new testing methods and resolves routine and non-routine technical issues with minimal assistance
  • Stays current on relevant technologies with self-directed learning

Desirable Skills:

  • Deep Red Team adversary emulation experience
  • Experience working on or with Blue Teams, including Incident Response, or Detection
  • Experience working in large, complex organizations
  • Python, C#, Rust, Go, or C skills
  • Solving difficult problems, and creatively subverting systems
  • Ability to replicate the tools and techniques of in-the-wild threat actors
  • Follows Threat Actor trends impacting organizational security

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive health benefits and programs
  • 401(k)
  • Employee discount
  • Short-term disability
  • Long-term disability
  • Paid sick leave
  • Paid national holidays
  • Paid vacation

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • Deep Red Team adversary emulation experience
  • Blue Teams
  • Incident Response
  • Detection
  • large complex organizations
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