What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Red Team Engineer / Hybrid in Scottsdale position at Motion Recruitment Partners, LLC?
A leading payments and financial technology organization is currently looking for a Senior Red Team Engineer to join the team. The company builds and secures large-scale platforms that support digital payments and protect critical financial infrastructure across the United States, leveraging modern cloud, application, and enterprise security technologies.
This role sits within a mature offensive security organization focused on adversary emulation, red team operations, and real-world threat simulation. The team operates beyond traditional penetration testing and works closely with defensive security, incident response, and threat intelligence groups. This is an opportunity for a senior-level offensive security professional to influence detection strategy, validate controls at scale, and execute realistic attack campaigns while maintaining strong work-life balance and long-term career growth.
This role will require someone to work onsite at their Scottdale office 3 days a week.
Required Skills & Experience
Desired Skills & Experience
What You Will Be Doing
Tech Breakdown
Daily Responsibilities
This role sits within a mature offensive security organization focused on adversary emulation, red team operations, and real-world threat simulation. The team operates beyond traditional penetration testing and works closely with defensive security, incident response, and threat intelligence groups. This is an opportunity for a senior-level offensive security professional to influence detection strategy, validate controls at scale, and execute realistic attack campaigns while maintaining strong work-life balance and long-term career growth.
This role will require someone to work onsite at their Scottdale office 3 days a week.
Required Skills & Experience
- 6 years of information security experience, including at least 2 years in offensive security or red team roles
- Hands-on experience conducting red team campaigns across network, cloud, and web environments
- Strong understanding of threat modeling, authentication and authorization, cryptography, and detection evasion techniques
- Experience developing exploits, proof-of-concepts, and offensive tooling at scale
- Proficiency scripting or programming in Python, PowerShell, and Go
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to present findings and risk clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience
- Ability to pass a background check and drug screening
Desired Skills & Experience
- Experience with adversary emulation frameworks and tooling
- Ability to pivot from individual vulnerabilities to enterprise-wide impact analysis
- Strong knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK, CAPEC, and the Cyber Kill Chain
- Experience testing mobile applications and identifying mobile-specific vulnerabilities
- Hands-on offensive security certifications such as OSCP, ePTX, GPEN, or HTB CPTS
- Cloud security experience and relevant certifications
What You Will Be Doing
Tech Breakdown
- 40% Cloud and Infrastructure Security
- 35% Application and Web Security
- 25% Custom Tooling, Automation, and Exploit Development
Daily Responsibilities
- 70% Hands-On Offensive Security and Red Team Operations
- 20% Collaboration with Defensive Security, Incident Response, and Threat Intelligence
- 10% Reporting, Documentation, and Strategic Analysis
- Bonus eligible
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- A 401(k) retirement plan with company match
- Paid time off and company holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Family planning and fertility support
Salary : $135,000 - $165,000