Senior Principal - Red Team Engineer

Senior Principal - Red Team Engineer

This role has been designated as 'Remote/Teleworker', which means you will primarily work from home.

Who We Are:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work.

We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today's complex world.

Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what's next.

We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here.

We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs.

We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you.

Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description:

This role provides advanced offensive cybersecurity expertise, focusing on the planning and execution of complex Red Team and Purple Team engagements.

You will own the technical planning and delivery of these engagements - from scoping and test plans through execution, remediation verification, and formal reporting.

You will apply a deep technical skills and offensive security experience to identify and exploit vulnerabilities in enterprise and cloud environments, helping to strengthen defenses through hands-on testing and analysis.

This position involves driving high-impact testing projects, developing new testing methodologies and tools, and contributing to the organization's overall security posture by uncovering and demonstrating real-world attack paths.

Candidates should demonstrate deep expertise in at least three domains (Red Team Operations or Red Team Development required) as well as possess practical knowledge in a minimum of two additional domains:

• Red Team Operations

• Red Team Development (evasion, implants, loaders, droppers, bypasses, etc.)

• Exploit Development and identifying zero-days

• Reverse Engineering

• Detection Engineering

• Penetration Testing

• AI-Enabled Offensive Security

What you'll do:

• Red Team Operations:
Plan and execute full-scope adversary emulation campaigns, conduct multi-stage operations across enterprise environments, and apply disciplined operational tradecraft to achieve defined objectives.

• Purple Team Operations:
Partner with detection and defensive teams to validate controls, test detection coverage, and translate offensive activity into measurable defensive improvements.

• Research and Tool Development:
Continuously conduct offensive security research and custom tooling development to advance team tradecraft and operational capability.

• AI at Scale:
Build and operate AI harnesses - orchestration layers and tooling around LLMs and agentic systems - that power cybersecurity operations, such as automating recon, tradecraft, zero-day hunting, and reporting in red team engagements to boost the speed and reach of oper...