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Senior Cybersecurity Engineer – Adversary Operations, Innovation & Purple Team Operations

Warren, Michigan, United States of America💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-23 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead tactical purple team operations and strategic adversary emulation exercises to validate security detections, processes, and team response across enterprise environments.

Role type

Senior IC cybersecurity engineer (adversary operations/purple teaming)

Builds

Repeatable validation workflows using MSV and custom tooling for visibility, logging, and detection testing

Domain

Cybersecurity, Adversary Operations, Purple Teaming

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Adversary emulation, purple teaming, threat hunting, detection engineering, attacker TTPs, endpoint security, cloud security, logging technologies, offensive/validation tooling, automation/scripting

Preferred skills

MSV tooling, cloud/SaaS adversary tactics, automotive/manufacturing security validation, ATT&CK-aligned reporting

Technologies

MSV, AWS, GCP, Azure, C2 frameworks, automation scripts

Responsibilities

Lead tactical purple team operations aligned to real adversary tactics; Design and run strategic multi-step adversary emulation exercises; Build repeatable validation workflows using MSV; Develop innovative adversary tooling including custom C2 and payloads; Partner with Detection Engineering and Incident Response to improve detections; Support AO innovation in cloud, SaaS, endpoint, and AI-related tactics; Produce technical documentation and findings for operational improvements

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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