Job Requirements
Denver, CO
Top Secret/SCI Full Scope Polygraph
Career Level not specified
$135,000 - $216,000
Job Description
About Peraton
Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees solve the most daunting challenges that our customers face. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.
About The Role
Position Summary
The Senior Cybersecurity Engineer and Red Team Operator leads full-scope adversary emulation, penetration assessments, and cyber operations across enterprise, OT/ICS, tactical, and cloud-native environments. This role strengthens organizational defenses by identifying attack paths, developing threat-informed detections, hardening container and cloud architectures, and guiding distributed cyber teams.
Key Responsibilities
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
Details
Target Salary Range: $135,000 - $216,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual's experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.
Benefits Statement: Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.
Application Statements: The application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates. By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in the role and the Company. During the review of your application, you may be required to participate in an on-camera interview, as well as participate in a process to verify your identity. Use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools of any kind during Peraton interviews is strictly prohibited unless the candidate has obtained prior written authorization. All interview responses must be the candidate's own.
EEO:Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.
Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees solve the most daunting challenges that our customers face. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.
About The Role
Position Summary
The Senior Cybersecurity Engineer and Red Team Operator leads full-scope adversary emulation, penetration assessments, and cyber operations across enterprise, OT/ICS, tactical, and cloud-native environments. This role strengthens organizational defenses by identifying attack paths, developing threat-informed detections, hardening container and cloud architectures, and guiding distributed cyber teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Plan and execute red team and adversary-emulation engagements across enterprise, OT/ICS, and multi-domain networks.
- Identify, exploit, and chain vulnerabilities using tools such as Cobalt Strike, Metasploit, Caldera, Burp Suite, Nmap, and Nessus.
- Develop attacker tooling in isolated labs to emulate current threat actor techniques.
- Create technical reports and partner with detection engineers to convert findings into prioritized remediation.
- Engineer secure architectures across multi-network AWS cloud environments.
- Conduct threat modeling across cloud and container ecosystems to identify toxic combinations.
- Author System Security Plans and change documentation supporting FedRAMP, RMF, and ATO packages.
- Harden AI/ML pipelines and sanitize training data to prevent model poisoning.
- Lead distributed cyber teams executing offensive cyber operations and incident response.
- Spearhead robotics security, RF engineering, and software R&D for digital force protection.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Active TS//SCI with the ability to obtain a Q//SCI.
- Experience across offensive security, red teaming, DevSecOps, and cloud security.
- Proficiency with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Helm, GitLab CI, Jenkins, and Ansible.
- Extensive experience with SIEM and detection tools such as ELK, Splunk, and Suricata.
- Strong offensive tooling proficiency including Cobalt Strike, Metasploit, Burp Suite, and Wireshark.
- Knowledge of compliance frameworks including FedRAMP, RMF, CIS, NIST, ISO, and PCI.
- Leadership experience across civilian, contractor, and military cyber teams.
- U.S. Citizen.
- Min 12 years with BS/BA, Min 10 years with MS/MA, Min 7 years with PhD, 16 years with a HS diploma
- Certifications: CISSP, GXPN, GCIH, GSEC, CCNA, CySA+, Security+, Network+.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Information Systems
- Offensive certifications: OSCP, CPTS, GAWN.
- Strong programming skills in Python, Shell, PowerShell, and C/C++.
Details
Target Salary Range: $135,000 - $216,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual's experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.
Benefits Statement: Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.
Application Statements: The application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates. By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in the role and the Company. During the review of your application, you may be required to participate in an on-camera interview, as well as participate in a process to verify your identity. Use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools of any kind during Peraton interviews is strictly prohibited unless the candidate has obtained prior written authorization. All interview responses must be the candidate's own.
EEO:Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.
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