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Description
A global financial institution is hiring a Lead Offensive Security Engineer to guide operational excellence across multiple red-team and penetration testing engagements. This role blends hands-on offensive security execution with mentoring, standards development, and quality assurance. The ideal candidate thrives in environments where open-source tooling, DevOps approaches, and internal automation are core to how work gets done.
What Youll Tackle
Lead several offensive security engagements simultaneously
Develop and maintain methodologies, runbooks, and testing standards
Perform hands-on reconnaissance, exploitation, and post-exploitation
Conduct technical QA on attack paths, findings management, and false-positive validation
Build or extend internal offensive tooling and automation
Contribute to AI/LLM red-team testing initiatives
Partner with senior stakeholders and cross-functional security teams
Mentor junior engineers and support engagement scoping and timelines
What You Bring
Extensive red-team or penetration testing experience
Proven ability to lead or mentor offensive security practitioners
Expertise in scripting and tooling (Python, Bash, PowerShell)
Experience building or maintaining open-source offensive tools
Strong understanding of cloud, networks, and attack simulation workflows
Ability to perform technical QA and enforce standards
Experience navigating enterprise stakeholder environments
Exposure to LLM/AI red teaming and related tooling development
Offensive credentials: OSCP, OSCE, OSEP, OSWE, CRTO
Exploit development, fuzzing, reverse engineering
Cloud and container security (AWS, Azure, Kubernetes)
Contributions to open-source security research
A global financial institution is hiring a Lead Offensive Security Engineer to guide operational excellence across multiple red-team and penetration testing engagements. This role blends hands-on offensive security execution with mentoring, standards development, and quality assurance. The ideal candidate thrives in environments where open-source tooling, DevOps approaches, and internal automation are core to how work gets done.
What Youll Tackle
Lead several offensive security engagements simultaneously
Develop and maintain methodologies, runbooks, and testing standards
Perform hands-on reconnaissance, exploitation, and post-exploitation
Conduct technical QA on attack paths, findings management, and false-positive validation
Build or extend internal offensive tooling and automation
Contribute to AI/LLM red-team testing initiatives
Partner with senior stakeholders and cross-functional security teams
Mentor junior engineers and support engagement scoping and timelines
What You Bring
Extensive red-team or penetration testing experience
Proven ability to lead or mentor offensive security practitioners
Expertise in scripting and tooling (Python, Bash, PowerShell)
Experience building or maintaining open-source offensive tools
Strong understanding of cloud, networks, and attack simulation workflows
Ability to perform technical QA and enforce standards
Experience navigating enterprise stakeholder environments
Exposure to LLM/AI red teaming and related tooling development
Offensive credentials: OSCP, OSCE, OSEP, OSWE, CRTO
Exploit development, fuzzing, reverse engineering
Cloud and container security (AWS, Azure, Kubernetes)
Contributions to open-source security research