Lead Security Analyst, Purple Team

Position Title : Lead Security Analyst - Purple Team Lead

Your Role

The Lead Security Analyst - Purple Team Lead works within the Information Security Incident Response in Information Technology. Victoria's Secret is seeking a highly skilled and collaborative Purple Team Lead to build and lead our internal purple team function. This role will bridge offensive and defensive security capabilities, driving proactive detection, response readiness, and team development across the enterprise.

This individual must bring hands-on penetration testing experience and a solid track record defending enterprise infrastructure and applications. The ideal candidate is a mentor by nature, passionate about uplifting team capabilities, and eager to lead engaging technical tabletop exercises that strengthen the company's cyber resilience.

This is a hybrid position and requires candidates to reside within a reasonable commuting distance to our Reynoldsburg office for weekly onsite work.

Your Impact

• Establish and lead a dedicated purple team to align red and blue team efforts.
• Conduct advanced penetration tests on networks, infrastructure, and applications to identify risks and validate defenses.
• Collaborate with defensive teams to enhance detection rules, incident response playbooks, and alert fidelity.
• Design and run technical tabletop exercises for IT and security stakeholders, simulating real-world attack scenarios.
• Mentor junior team members in both offensive and defensive security disciplines.
• Work cross-functionally with infrastructure, application, and DevOps teams to embed security into operations.
• Document and communicate findings clearly, with actionable remediation strategies for both technical and non-technical audiences.

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Your Experience

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