Senior Red Team Operator

Company Description acuCyber is a cybersecurity organization focused on helping clients understand, measure, and improve their security posture through realistic offensive security engagements. The team specializes in red teaming, adversary emulation, and penetration testing activities that mirror real-world threats and attack paths. acuCyber partners with organizations across industries to identify critical vulnerabilities, strengthen defenses, and build resilience against advanced cyber attacks. The company values technical excellence, ethical conduct, and continuous learning, offering opportunities to work on complex security challenges. Team members collaborate closely with clients and colleagues to deliver practical, actionable insights that enhance overall cybersecurity maturity.

Role Description The Senior Red Team Operator is a full-time, on-site role based in the Charleston, South Carolina Metropolitan Area. This role is responsible for planning and executing advanced red team engagements, including adversary emulation, social engineering exercises, and network, application, and infrastructure attack scenarios. Day-to-day work includes developing attack plans, conducting hands-on exploitation, maintaining operational security during engagements, and documenting findings and attack paths clearly and accurately. The Senior Red Team Operator will collaborate with blue teams and client stakeholders to conduct debriefs, help analyze defensive performance, and advise on remediation strategies. This role also involves mentoring junior team members, contributing to internal tools and methodologies, and staying current with emerging threats, techniques, and security technologies.

Qualifications

• Strong offensive security experience, including penetration testing, red teaming, and adversary emulation across networks, applications, and cloud or hybrid environments.
• Proficiency with common offensive security tools and frameworks (e.g., C2 platforms, scripting languages such as Python or PowerShell, and security assessment toolchains).
• Solid understanding of defensive technologies and practices, such as SIEM, EDR, network monitoring, incident response, and threat hunting, to effectively test and evade detection.
• Ability to design and execute complex attack scenarios, including social engineering campaigns, lateral movement, privilege escalation, and data exfiltration, while maintaining strict operational security.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to produce clear technical reports, present findings to technical and non-technical audiences, and collaborate effectively with client teams.
• Proven experience leading engagements or projects, mentoring peers, and contributing to process improvement or tool development in an offensive security context.
• Relevant certifications or training (e.g., OSCP, OSCE, OSEP, CRTO, GPEN, GXPN, or equivalent real-world experience) are highly beneficial.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or related field, or equivalent practical experience in offensive security.
• Commitment to ethical conduct, confidentiality, and adherence to