Director of Offensive Security
Core
Build and run a continuous red team program against production HPC clusters, multi-tenant Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure to emulate threat actors and validate security controls.
Role type
Director of Offensive Security (Red Team Lead)
Builds
Independent adversarial validation of production environments, detection coverage reports, and remediation playbooks.
Domain
High-Performance Computing (HPC), Cloud Security, Offensive Security
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
Red team operations, adversary emulation, cloud penetration testing, Kubernetes attack paths, MITRE ATT&CK v15 fluency, C2 framework usage, exploit development, threat modeling, executive communication
Preferred skills
Building offensive security functions from scratch, HPC/bare-metal assessment experience, published CVE credits, threat intelligence consumption
Technologies
Cobalt Strike, Mythic, Sliver, MITRE CALDERA, Atomic Red Team, Slurm, InfiniBand, RDMA, Kubernetes, Jira
Responsibilities
Build and run continuous red team programs against production environments; Execute adversary emulation campaigns aligned to MITRE ATT&CK; Independently validate detection and response efficacy; Own the purple team feedback loop; Run continuous attack surface validation; Lead threat-led penetration testing of HPC-specific attack surfaces; Own offensive validation of cloud and Kubernetes controls; Drive threat modeling at design stage; Manage external pentest and red team vendor portfolio; Build and maintain offensive tooling stack; Define and publish offensive security KPIs; Issue formal assessment reports; Champion an adversarial engineering culture
Seniority
Director, strategic leadership with hands-on technical depth