
Red Team Lead
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The Threat Management Red Team Lead defines and leads the enterprise adversary emulation program, aligning strategy with business risk and threat intelligence. The role oversees complex attack simulations, validates security controls, and drives improvements in detection and response. It coordinates across security teams, leads purple team exercises, reports risk-based findings and metrics to leadership, and provides technical leadership and mentorship to Red Team operators.
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The Threat Management Red Team Lead is a cybersecurity leader responsible for defining, building, and leading the enterprise adversary emulation program. This role establishes strategy aligned to business risk and threat intelligence while overseeing execution of complex, end-to-end attack simulations across the enterprise. The Red Team Lead ensures the organization's security controls are effectively validated against realistic threat scenarios and drives measurable improvements in detection and response capabilities. This role requires a blend of deep technical expertise, program leadership, and strong cross-functional coordination across SOC, Threat Intelligence, Detection Engineering, and Application Security. This role reports directly to the Senior Manager - Threat Management - Define and lead the enterprise adversary simulation strategy aligned to business risk, threat intelligence, and emerging threats. - Build, mature, and continuously improve the Red Team program, including methodologies, tooling, and engagement frameworks. - Oversee planning and execution of complex attack scenarios across enterprise environments, ensuring realistic end-to-end adversary simulation. - Validate effectiveness of preventive, detective, and response controls through full attack chain execution. - Drive cross-team collaboration with SOC, Threat Intelligence, Detection Engineering, Application Security, and Security Champions to remediate gaps. - Lead purple team exercises to strengthen detection and response capabilities. - Ensure findings are tracked, prioritized by risk, remediated, and retested for validation. - Translate threat intelligence and business risk into prioritized adversary scenarios. - Deliver clear, risk-based reporting and metrics to leadership, highlighting control gaps and improvement areas. - Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure program effectiveness and security posture improvements. - Oversee selection, implementation, and operation of red team tooling and infrastructure. - Provide technical leadership and mentorship to Red Team operators. - Establish standards for tradecraft, documentation, and operational rigor. - Continuously evaluate and integrate new tools, techniques, and adversary tradecraft. This is a remote position. This position is not eligible for sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, including conversion to H1-B visa. Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without needing sponsorship for employment work visa status now or in the future. Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company's staff, employees, and business relationships. Education and Experience Required: Bachelor's Degree (or foreign equivalent) or in lieu of a degree, at least 12 years in experience in the field of Information Technology or Business (work experience or a combination of education and work experience in the field of Information Technology or Business) Relevant certifications such as OSCP, OSEP, CRTO, GXPN, GPEN, CISSP or similar are preferred. 8+ years IT/Cybersecurity experience. Proven experience leading or building a Red Team or adversary simulation program. Strong expertise in adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK. Extensive experience planning and executing advanced red team operations in enterprise environments
How this job compares
Set against the 3,023 open Cybersecurity jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Ohio median$135–243K/yr84 salary ranges
- US median$29–40/hr93 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 132 open Cybersecurity jobs in Ohio and 3,023 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Cybersecurity postings that state a minimum ask for 6 years at the median (2,591 postings).
- Education
- 1,459 of the 3,023 open Cybersecurity jobs (48%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
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