Senior Red Team Cybersecurity Specialist

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

When you join the Federal Reservethe nations central bankyoull play a key role collaborating with leading tech professionals to strengthen and protect our economic financial and payments systems. We invest in contemporary and emerging technology each year to support the Federal Reserve and our economy and were building a dynamic team for our future.

Bring your passion and expertise and well provide the opportunities that will challenge you and propel your growthalong with a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health wealth and addition to competitive compensation we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes tuition assistance generous paid time off top-notch health care benefits child and family care leave professional development opportunities a 401(k) match pension and more. All brought together in a work environment where you can truly find balance.

About the Opportunity

The National Incident Response Team (NIRT) a national service provider for the Federal Reserve System (FRS) delivers national intrusion detection incident response security intelligence threat assessment and vulnerability assessment services for the FRS. NIRTs mission is to play a role in the FRS efforts to protect its information systems against unauthorized use. NIRTs Adversary Emulation team has an immediate opening for a Senior or Lead Red Team Cybersecurity Specialist (based on experience) to join their red team as a necessary participant on a variety of engagements and projects that will target and evaluate the cyber security posture of people processes and technology within the FRS.

As a Senior Specialist you will report to the Sr. Manager and work on a team of security professionals focused on ensuring business line programs by performing security assessments against people processes and technologies by using automated tools and expertise of hands-on tools that simulate attacker tactics techniques and procedures (TTPs). You will also perform assessments for our services infrastructure and applications to identify weaknesses before an attacker does. You will use a variety of tools and techniques respective to red teaming and social engineering and have the opportunity to combine your technical expertise with your imagination to discover methods for ensuring that the FRS remains one step ahead of its adversaries around the world.

This is an in-office role and must report to one of our district reserve bank locations.

Some of What You Will Do

Leverage your security expertise to covertly exploit vulnerabilities misconfigurations and weaknesses in the system to improve security posture

Lead covert offensive security assessment activities across all stages of the cyber kill chain.

Drive and reflect a learning and practice culture including developing junior talent and knowledge-sharing across the organization.

Improve operational efficiency by evaluating and building workflow processes automation and tooling

Envision propose and implement cross-team initiatives for cybersecurity improvements for recognized gaps

Perform cybersecurity and Operator duties as assigned

Qualifications :

6 years (Senior) or 10 years (Advanced) of relevant information security related work experience in areas such as : computer network exploitation and post-exploitation

Subject matter expert of all phases of adversary emulation operations including attack planning threat-modeling reconnaissance social engineering exploitation post-exploitation covert techniques lateral movement attack infrastructure and data exfiltration

Subject matter expert of covert on-the-wire red team testing malware / payload development offensive security experience in cloud and on-prem environments advanced c2 infrastructure and advanced active directory attacks

Team leader with a collaborative and consultative approach

Ability to tailor communication to various audiences ranging from technical subject matter expert partners to senior executive partners

Experience managing client relationships including determining needs managing expectations and demonstrating quality results

Accomplished with scripting / programming such as Python PowerShell Go or C# with the ability to create and customize tools

Discover the Reason Why So Many People Love It Here!

When you join Federal Reserves National IT organization not only will you find a challenging and purposeful career youll also have access to a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health and wealth including :

Great medical benefits

Pension and 401(k) with employer match

Paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

Employee resource networks

Paid volunteer leave

Onsite amenities that make working here fun!

Other Requirements and Considerations :

Candidates should review the Banks Code of Conduct to ensure compliance with conflict of interest rules and personal investment restrictions.

If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability please notify

Sponsorship is not available for this role. The selected candidate will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. The ability to obtain and maintain a National Security Clearance (Secret or Top Secret) is for this Citizenship is required to be eligible for a National Security Clearance.

Please note that this role is required to be in office at a district reserve bank location.

The national hiring range for the Senior Red Team Cybersecurity Specialist is $126600- $174130 annually. The national hiring range for the Advanced Red Team Cybersecurity Specialist is $146500- $201410. For candidates in certain markets (Boston MA; Chicago IL; Los Angeles CA; New York City Metro Area Philadelphia PA; San Francisco CA; Seattle WA) the listed hiring and salary ranges may be adjusted based on your geographic location.

Salary offered will be based on the job responsibilities and the individuals knowledge skills and experience as defined in the job qualifications / experience.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Interested candidates are strongly encouraged to apply by December 1 2025 .

Always verify and apply to jobs on Federal Reserve System Careers or through verified Federal Reserve Bank social media channels.

Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Regular / Temporary

Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Yes

Job Category

Information Technology Family Group

Work Shift

First (United States of America)

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Required Experience :

Senior IC

Key Skills

React Native,Employee Evaluation,Stream and River Restoration,Office Experience,Automotive Diagnostics,Auto Restoration,Leadership Experience,Mentoring,Public Speaking,Supervising Experience,DynamoDB,Google Suite

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Yearly Salary Salary : 126600 - 174130