Red Team Engineer

Overview

As a member of the Red Team within the Global Cyber Security group, the Red Team Engineer will serve as a core technical contributor for adversary emulation, threat informed security testing, and controlled offensive security operations. The engineer will execute activities in accordance with State Street's standards and procedures, risk acceptance, and regulatory expectations, ensuring all work is conducted within approved environments, scopes, and authorization pathways. The Red Team Engineer will conduct comprehensive, intelligence driven assessments of enterprise applications, critical infrastructure components, and associated operational and technical security controls to evaluate the security posture and the effectiveness of detection, prevention, response, and governance capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Execute authorized adversary emulation activities to assess defenses, security controls, and organizational resilience.
• Perform targeted security assessments across applications, infrastructure, cloud platforms, and enterprise technologies.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity, technology, and risk stakeholders to develop realistic, threat informed testing scenarios.
• Evaluate detection and response capabilities and support improvement through coordinated purple team activities.
• Operate within defined approval processes, scopes, authorization boundaries, and safe testing protocols.
• Develop or adapt tools and techniques to support realistic testing, ensuring secure and compliant usage.
• Produce clear, audit ready reporting and support remediation to reduce identified risks and strengthen defenses.

What We Value

• Strong proficiency in offensive security techniques, including infrastructure, application, and cloud focused penetration testing.
• Deep understanding of adversary behaviors and attack frameworks (e.g., MITRE ATT&CK) to inform realistic testing scenarios.
• Familiarity with modern security tooling, assessment utilities, and red team oriented testing methodologies.
• Ability to develop or adapt scripts and tools using common scripting languages.
• Broad technical knowledge across networks, operating systems, identity systems, cloud services, and security controls.
• Demonstrated analytical ability to identify core issues, interpret risk, and propose practical, evidence driven solutions.
• Strong organizational, time management, and prioritization skills in dynamic and high pressure environments.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with technical and non technical stakeholders.
• Commitment to maintaining awareness of emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and offensive security trends.
• High attention to detail and consistent delivery of accurate, high quality work.
• Clear and professional communication skills, including the ability to simplify complex technical concepts.
• Proven ability to handle sensitive information responsibly and operate with discretion and professionalism.

Experience Desired

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent hands on security experience.
• 2-4 years in penetration testing or red team activities.
• Broad experience with networks, operating systems, cloud, and security controls.
• Familiarity with threat informed testing and attack frameworks.
• Experience collaborating with defensive teams to validate detections.
• Ability to script or automate tasks using common languages.
• Strong reporting and communication skills across technical audiences.

Equal Opportunity Employer

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we consider all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, marital status, domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, military and veteran status, and other characteristics protected by applicable law.

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