Everforth ECS is seeking an
AI-Focused Red Team/Blue Team Operator to join our team in
Washington, DC.
This position is contingent upon contract award.ECS is seeking Top Secret cleared Red/Blue Team Operator with deep expertise in both offensive and defensive cyber operations and a strong understanding of AI-enabled systems, threats, and security controls. This role will support advanced security assessments, adversary emulation, detection engineering, and threat hunting while leveraging AI to reduce time to detect or identify zero-day vulnerabilities
Salary Range: $160,000 - $205,000
General Description of Benefits
- Active Top Secret clearance required; SCI eligibility preferred.
- Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity with meaningful hands-on experience in both red team and blue team operations.
- Demonstrated experience with:
- Offensive security testing, adversary emulation, or penetration testing
- Defensive operations, vulnerability analysis and threat hunting
- Prompt engineering to optimize AI-driven security tools, and familiarity with prompt injection/jailbreaking defensive mitigation strategies.
- Windows, Linux, Active Directory, cloud environments, and enterprise networks
- Security tooling such as vulnerability assessment tools, and attack simulation frameworks
- Working knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK, intrusion kill chain concepts, and adversary behaviors.
- Experience leveraging AI enabled tools, assessing or securing AI/ML systems, large language model integrations, or AI-enabled applications.
- Experience performing vulnerability assessments using one or more of the following:
- NESSUS
- Nmap
- Tenable
- Kali
- Burp, Metasploit, Core Impact
- Strong understanding of security principles related to identity, access management, segmentation, logging, incident response, and secure architecture.
- Ability to communicate highly technical issues clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- U.S. citizenship required due to clearance requirements.
