Senior Red Team Cybersecurity Specialist

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

When you join the Federal Reserve—the nation's central bank—you’ll 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 we’re building a dynamic team for our future.

Bring your passion and expertise, and we’ll provide the opportunities that will challenge you and propel your growth—along with a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health, wealth, and life.

In 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.

NIRT’s mission is to play a role in the FRS’ efforts to protect its information systems against unauthorized use.

NIRT’s 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-sharin...