Senior Red Team Cybersecurity Specialist

About the role

The National Incident Response Team (NIRT), a national service provider for the Federal Reserve System (FRS), delivers national intrusion detection, incident response, security intelligence, threat assessment, and vulnerability assessment services for the FRS. NIRT's mission is to play a role in the FRS' efforts to protect its information systems against unauthorized use. NIRT's Adversary Emulation team has an immediate opening for a Senior or Lead Red Team Cybersecurity Specialist (based on experience) to join their red team as a necessary participant on a variety of engagements and projects that will target and evaluate the cyber security posture of people, processes, and technology within the FRS. As a Senior Specialist (Senior Cybersecurity Advisor), you will report to the Sr. Manager and work on a team of security professionals focused on ensuring business line programs by performing security assessments against people, processes, and technologies by using automated tools and expertise of hands-on tools that simulate attacker tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs). You will also perform assessments for our services, infrastructure, and applications to identify weaknesses before an attacker does. You will use a variety of tools and techniques respective to red teaming and social engineering and have the opportunity to combine your technical expertise with your imagination to discover methods for ensuring that the FRS remains one step ahead of its adversaries around the world. This is a remote role but must be located within 2 hour commute to one of our district reserve bank locations for occasional in-office meetings. Some of What You Will Do Leverage your security expertise to covertly exploit vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and weaknesses in the system to improve security posture Drive innovation by integrating AI-powered tools into red team workflows and develop attack scenarios to assess organizational resilience against AI related threats Lead covert offensive security assessment activities across all stages of the cyber kill chain. Drive and reflect a learning and practice culture, including developing junior talent and knowledge-sharing across the organization. Improve operational efficiency by evaluating and building workflow processes, automation and tooling Envision, propose, and implement cross-team initiatives for cybersecurity improvements for recognized gaps Perform cybersecurity and Operator duties as assigned