Distinguished Red Team Operator

Verizon • Ashburn, VA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

When you join Verizon You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife. What you’ll be doing... The Verizon Cyber Security (VCS) organization enables the business by protecting assets and information across Verizon networks, infrastructure and applications. VCS integrates cybersecurity governance, policies, technologies and operations across Verizon, and works to incorporate security into the design of technology systems and services. Verizon Cybersecurity (VCS) is looking for a Senior Red Team Operator to join our Enterprise Red Team. You will be responsible for leading and participating in the design and execution of red team campaigns testing, measuring, and improving people, process, and technology. Red Team campaigns are objective based security testing for Verizon, covering multiple types of targets. Successful applicants must be capable of evaluating environments, applications, systems and processes to discover weaknesses and leverage those discoveries into actionable real world attack strategies. The successful candidate will possess an effective aptitude in thinking like an adversary, security of operating systems, networking and protocols, firewalls, databases and middleware applications, forensics, scripting and programing, phishing, and the ability to mentor and lead junior technical testers and effectively translate highly technical information to internal customers in a way that supports VCS and broader Verizon goals.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Six or more years of relevant work experience required, demonstrated through work experience and/or military experience.
• Six or more years of direct offensive security experience, specifically leading engagements in Adversary Emulation, Adversary Simulation, Threat Emulation or Threat Simulation.

Nice To Haves

• Implementation-level familiarity with modern exploitation, including buffer overflows, heap spraying, ROP chains, and logic flaws.
• Deep knowledge of Operating System internals (Windows, Linux, macOS) including memory management, process injection, API hooking, and kernel-level structures.
• Proven ability to modify TTPs to evade modern EDR/NDR/XDR solutions and bypass security controls like AMSI and ETW.
• Advanced proficiency in reading and modifying code in languages such as C#, C/C++, Go, or Java for the purpose of exploit development and custom tooling.
• Thorough understanding of network protocols, with the ability to design covert command-and-control channels that blend with legitimate traffic.
• Expertise in Active Directory and Azure AD attacks, including advanced techniques like Kerberoasting, DCSync, Golden Ticket, and identity federation exploits.
• Solid understanding of cloud-native environments, specifically containerization platforms (Docker, Kubernetes) and major cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Advanced industry certifications such as OSEP, OSED, GXPN, CRTO, or OSCP/OSWE.
• A track record of continuous evolution, demonstrated by participation in CTFs, contributions to open-source security tools, or speaking at industry conferences.
• Fluency in Blue Team processes and technologies (SIEM logic, threat hunting, SOC triage) to better simulate realistic threats and provide actionable feedback.
• Demonstrated proficiency in scripting and automation (Python, Bash, PowerShell) to develop custom offensive security tooling and bypass security controls.
• A degree in a technical field.

Responsibilities

• Leading and executing full-spectrum Red Team engagements, encompassing adversary emulation, social engineering, and the development of techniques to evade EDR and other controls.
• Ingesting and operationalizing Cyber Threat Intelligence to create realistic, procedure-level emulation plans mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
• Architecting, developing, and maintaining custom offensive tooling, scripts, and methodologies to enhance the VCS Red Team’s operational scope and efficiency.
• Navigating complex, ambiguous operational environments, translating broad strategic goals into concrete execution plans with minimal oversight.
• Driving cross-functional security initiatives, setting operational principles and leading the execution of significant goals that impact multiple business areas.
• Safely configuring and deploying advanced attacker TTPs within live environments, ensuring rigorous testing without disrupting business continuity.
• Providing expert technical mentorship to team members regarding offensive campaigns, vulnerability analysis, OPSEC, and professional development.
• Acting as a primary Subject Matter Expert regarding security vulnerability impact ratings, offering guidance on the severity and implications of specific exposures.
• Communicating complex risk scenarios to technical staff, executive leadership, and legal counsel, clearly articulating both the technical findings and the strategic impact.
• Producing high-level documentation and presentations, bridging the gap between technical exploitation details and executive risk management.
• Delivering pragmatic, actionable remediation guidance, helping the organization prioritize fixes based on realistic risk assessments rather than theoretical severity.

Benefits

• health and wellness benefit options including: medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance
• matched 401(k) savings plan
• up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year
• paid parental leave
• adoption assistance and tuition assistance
• incentives
• Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees