Red Team Manager

The Role:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced manager of our Red team to join our dynamic and growing Security Threat Detection Response and Emulation team. This is a critical role that will be at the forefront of protecting our company by leading a team responsible for emulating the threats that Cloudflare faces. You will be responsible for leading the technical aspects of our Red Team including red team exercises execution and planning resourcing drive product testing and collaboration with threat response to refine detections and responses.

This role requires a unique blend of technical expertise leadership and goal oriented thinking. You will be a key point of contact and collaborator with our threat detection and engineering engineering and products ensuring that all activities are conducted with the utmost care in accordance with company policy and in compliance with legal and ethical standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Mentorship & Growth: Lead a team of high-performing global red team and efficacy engineers providing technical guidance while fostering a culture of curiosity and ethical hacking.
• Strategic Leadership: Develop and execute on priorities of the security organisation for the red team and efficacy testing team. Partnering with leadership and other security teams to ensure scenarios and tests are relevant and provide improvement opportunities.
• Adversary Simulation: Manage the execution of full-chain red team operations targeting Cloudflares global infrastructure corporate networks and product ecosystems.
• Efficacy Testing: Establish a rigorous framework for testing Security Efficacymeasuring exactly how well our products and security tools hold up against malicious adversaries..
• Purple Teaming: Foster a highly collaborative relationship with the Blue Team (Detection & Response) Eng and Product teams to ensure findings are translated into immediate defensive improvements.
• Executive Reporting: Translate complex technical exploits into risk-based narratives for leadership helping prioritize engineering resources where they matter most.

Partnerships

• Security Incident Response Team (SIRT): You will act as the sparring partner for SIRT. By conducting unannounced exercises you help them refine their playbooks test their on-call rotations and ensure their forensic tooling is effective under pressure.
• Threat Detection: Partner to identify relevant threat scenarios threat actors tools and techniques for use in red team scenarios
• Security Engineering: Your teams findings will provide the raw data needed for Security Engineering to build more resilient architecture. You will collaborate on paved road initiatives ensuring that security defaults actually stop the attacks your team develops.
• Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC): The Red Team Manager provides evidence-based ground truth by identifying hidden security gaps through active exploitation allowing the GRC team to transform those technical findings into actionable risk reports and targeted policy updates.
• Product & Engineering: Partner with product and engineering around testing of processes tooling and product and delivering outcomes that drive security resiliency improvements.
• Legal & Privacy: Offensive operations require strict adherence to Rules of Engagement. You will partner closely with Legal to ensure all testingespecially those involving social engineering or sensitive data accessis conducted within Cloudflares ethical guidelines and global privacy regulations.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience: 8 years in offensive security with at least 2-3 years in a formal leadership or management capacity.
• Deep Technical Roots: A strong background in manual penetration testing exploit development or cloud security.
• Operational Mindset: Experience using the MITRE ATT&CK framework to map coverage and identify blind spots in defensive telemetry.
• Communication Skills: The ability to explain a complex 0-day exploit to a non-technical stakeholder while maintaining the respect of a deep-dive engineering team.
• Tooling Familiarity: Knowledge of automated breach and attack simulation (BAS) tools as well as custom-built frameworks for payload delivery and C2 infrastructure.

What Makes Cloudflare Special

Were not just a highly ambitious large-scale technology company. Were a highly ambitious large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo: Since 2014 weve equipped more than 2400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work technology already used by Cloudflares enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project: In 2017 we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project weve provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Heres the deal - we dont store client IP addresses never ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something youd like to be a part of Wed love to hear from you!

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