Senior Cybersecurity Engineer – Adversary Operations, Innovation & Purple Team Operations

• Lead and execute tactical purple team operations aligned to real adversary tactics.
• Design and run strategic, multi-step adversary emulation exercises.
• Build repeatable validation workflows using MSV and related tooling.
• Develop and enhance innovative adversary tooling.
• Partner with Detection Engineering, Incident Response, and other cyber verticals to turn AO findings into improved detections.
• Support AO innovation priorities across platforms, logging, cloud infrastructure, and cross-team integrations.
• Help mature AO capability in advanced and emerging areas.
• Produce clear technical documentation, attribution, findings, and recommendations.

Requirements

• Significant hands-on experience in cybersecurity operations, adversary emulation, purple teaming, red teaming, threat hunting, or detection engineering.
• Strong understanding of attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures.
• Experience with endpoint, cloud, network, and logging technologies.
• Experience building or using offensive and validation tooling such as payloads, C2 frameworks, automation, scripting, and infrastructure for safe adversary testing.
• Ability to collaborate across verticals and help coordinate actions that improve Cyber Defense outcomes at scale.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in cybersecurity operations, particularly in adversary emulation and purple teaming, with a strong focus on collaboration across teams to enhance detection and response capabilities. Proficient in developing innovative tooling and producing clear technical documentation to support cyber defense initiatives.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Cybersecurity Operations
• Adversary Emulation
• Purple Teaming
• Detection Engineering
• Threat Hunting

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Adversary Emulation Exercises
• Offensive Tooling
• Validation Workflows
• Automation Scripting
• Endpoint Technologies
• Cloud Technologies
• Network Technologies
• Logging Technologies
• Attacker Tactics
• Technical Documentation

Soft Skills

• Collaboration
• Communication Skills

Industry Keywords

• Cyber Defense
• Incident Response
• Adversary Tactics
• Cybersecurity

Tools & Technologies

• MSV
• Payloads
• C2 Frameworks