Introduction

　　At X-Force we help defenders continuously assess their real-world security. The X-Force Adversary Services team provides both traditional ad-hoc sophisticated red team exercises as well as continuous managed red teaming augmented by automation. As part of the X-Force Managed Red Team, you'll perform focused manual red team exercises for customers as well as oversee tasking and targeting automations via our attack platform to provide a continuous red team experience designed to mirror today's adversaries, not yesterday's threats. We partner with security teams to help them understand the art of the possible by delivering an unrivaled attack experience, at scale.

　　Your Role and Responsibilities

　　Have you ever been chomping at the bit to throw an amazing 0-day, but you have to wait for the tooling to be stable enough to make it work? Have you ever been rushing to rapidly leverage an n-day disclosure, because you're certain you're going to lose the only toehold you have, and you need another point of presence? Do you know what it feels like to be the worst hacker, worst hacker, worst hacker, worst hacker, BEST HACKER EVER, worst hacker, worst hacker, worst hacker? Yeah. Us too.

　　At X-Force we help defenders continuously assess their real-world security. The X-Force Adversary Services team provides both traditional ad-hoc sophisticated red team exercises as well as continuous managed red teaming augmented by automation. As part of the X-Force Managed Red Team, you'll perform focused manual red team exercises for customers as well as oversee tasking and targeting automations via our attack platform to provide a continuous red team experience designed to mirror today's adversaries, not yesterday's threats. We partner with security teams to help them understand the art of the possible by delivering an unrivaled attack experience, at scale.

　　As a Hacker Operations Center (HOC) Red Team Operator, you'll use our Attack Platform to help customers improve their security programs. You'll be responsible for inventing clever new ways of ruining defenders' days, and then you'll work with our red team, researchers, and developers to drive those innovations throughout our platform and across our customers. The work is frenetic but has a tremendous impact on our customers and the security market as a whole.

　　We are looking for individuals that are driven, proactive, thorough and forward looking. You have at your fingertips a mastery of several programming languages and red-team technologies. You can debug something from layer 1 to 7 in the OSI Model and you've hacked your way through understanding more applications and devices than you can remember. You have the determination to grind through the pain, the patience to wait-out your opponents, and you know with certainty that you can win on a long enough timeline.

　　Responsibilities of the Role:

　　Grit. Grind. Motivation.

　　Solving problems that do not have known solutions

　　Discover, identify, and exploit vulnerable systems

　　Plan and execute network operations against customer infrastructure

　　Develop and prototype novel capabilities and techniques

　　Research threats, vulnerabilities and exploit techniques

　　Debug exploits and related infrastructure

　　Provide guidance and offense-related insights throughout Randori

　　Competencies required:

　　Strong written and verbal communication skills

　　Experience with offensive tooling and frameworks

　　Experience with system-level debugging

　　Ability to quickly configure test infrastructure

　　Experience working with enterprise environments

　　Experience with network or systems administration

　　Required Technical and Professional Expertise

　　Expert level knowledge of Linux internals, Docker, Python, and Bash

　　5+ years of offense-related industry experience

　　Experience with two or more programming languages (Python, C/C++/C#, Go)

　　Ability to quickly configure test infrastructure

　　Experience working with C and various compiler toolchains

　　Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

　　Community contributions or participation including: CTF, Hack-the-box, or cyber-defense competitions, speaking or presentations or public security research

　　BA/BS in an Infosec related major or commensurate practical experience

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