Responsibilities

Position Summary

The Senior Cybersecurity Engineer and Red Team Operator leads full-scope adversary emulation, penetration assessments, and cyber operations across enterprise, OT/ICS, tactical, and cloud-native environments. This role strengthens organizational defenses by identifying attack paths, developing threat-informed detections, hardening container and cloud architectures, and guiding distributed cyber teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan and execute red team and adversary-emulation engagements across enterprise, OT/ICS, and multi-domain networks.
• Identify, exploit, and chain vulnerabilities using tools such as Cobalt Strike, Metasploit, Caldera, Burp Suite, Nmap, and Nessus.
• Develop attacker tooling in isolated labs to emulate current threat actor techniques.
• Create technical reports and partner with detection engineers to convert findings into prioritized remediation.
• Engineer secure architectures across multi-network AWS cloud environments.
• Conduct threat modeling across cloud and container ecosystems to identify toxic combinations.
• Author System Security Plans and change documentation supporting FedRAMP, RMF, and ATO packages.
• Harden AI/ML pipelines and sanitize training data to prevent model poisoning.
• Lead distributed cyber teams executing offensive cyber operations and incident response.
• Spearhead robotics security, RF engineering, and software R&D for digital force protection.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Active TS//SCI with the ability to obtain a Q//SCI.
• Experience across offensive security, red teaming, DevSecOps, and cloud security.
• Proficiency with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Helm, GitLab CI, Jenkins, and Ansible.
• Extensive experience with SIEM and detection tools such as ELK, Splunk, and Suricata.
• Strong offensive tooling proficiency including Cobalt Strike, Metasploit, Burp Suite, and Wireshark.
• Knowledge of compliance frameworks including FedRAMP, RMF, CIS, NIST, ISO, and PCI.
• Leadership experience across civilian, contractor, and military cyber teams.
• U.S. Citizen.
• Min 12 years with BS/BA, Min 10 years with MS/MA, Min 7 years with PhD, 16 years with a HS diploma

Preferred Qualifications

• Certifications: CISSP, GXPN, GCIH, GSEC, CCNA, CySA+, Security+, Network+.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Information Systems
• Offensive certifications: OSCP, CPTS, GAWN.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Shell, PowerShell, and C/C++.

Peraton Overview

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Target Salary Range

$135,000 - $216,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

EEO

EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.