About the Opportunity

The National Incident Response Team (NIRT), a national service provider for the Federal Reserve System (FRS), delivers national intrusion detection, incident response, security intelligence, threat assessment, and vulnerability assessment services for the FRS. NIRT's mission is to play a role in the FRS' efforts to protect its information systems against unauthorized use. NIRT's Adversary Emulation team has an immediate opening for a Senior or Lead Red Team Cybersecurity Specialist (based on experience) to join their red team as a necessary participant on a variety of engagements and projects that will target and evaluate the cyber security posture of people, processes, and technology within the FRS.

As a Senior Specialist, you will report to the Sr. Manager and work on a team of security professionals focused on ensuring business line programs by performing security assessments against people, processes, and technologies by using automated tools and expertise of hands-on tools that simulate attacker tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs). You will also perform assessments for our services, infrastructure, and applications to identify weaknesses before an attacker does. You will use a variety of tools and techniques respective to red teaming and social engineering and have the opportunity to combine your technical expertise with your imagination to discover methods for ensuring that the FRS remains one step ahead of its adversaries around the world.

This is a remote role but must be located within 2 hour commute to one of our district reserve bank locations for occasional in-office meetings.

Some of What You Will Do

• Leverage your security expertise to covertly exploit vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and weaknesses in the system to improve security posture
• Drive innovation by integrating AI-powered tools into red team workflows and develop attack scenarios to assess organizational resilience against AI related threats
• Lead covert offensive security assessment activities across all stages of the cyber kill chain.
• Drive and reflect a learning and practice culture, including developing junior talent and knowledge-sharing across the organization.
• Improve operational efficiency by evaluating and building workflow processes, automation and tooling
• Envision, propose, and implement cross-team initiatives for cybersecurity improvements for recognized gaps
• Perform cybersecurity and Operator duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• 6+ years (Senior) of relevant information security related work experience in areas such as: computer network exploitation and post-exploitation
• Subject matter expert of all phases of adversary emulation operations including attack planning, threat-modeling, reconnaissance, social engineering, exploitation, post-exploitation, covert techniques, lateral movement, attack infrastructure and data exfiltration
• Subject matter expert of covert on-the-wire red team testing, malware/payload development, offensive security experience in cloud and on-prem environments, advanced c2 infrastructure and advanced active directory attacks
• Team leader with a collaborative and consultative approach
• Ability to tailor communication to various audiences ranging from technical subject matter expert partners to senior executive partners
• Experience managing client relationships, including determining needs, managing expectations, and demonstrating quality results
• Accomplished with scripting/programming such as Python, PowerShell, Go, or C# with the ability to create and customize tools

Other Requirements and Considerations:

• Candidates should review the Bank's Code of Conduct to ensure compliance with conflict of interest rules and personal investment restrictions.
• Sponsorship is not available for this role. The selected candidate will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. The ability to obtain and maintain a National Security Clearance (Secret or Top Secret) is required for this role. US Citizenship is required to be eligible for a National Security Clearance.
• The Richmond hiring range for the Senior Red Team Cybersecurity Specialist is $130,100- $178,800 annually.
• Salary offered will be based on the job responsibilities and the individual's knowledge, skills, and experience as defined in the job qualifications/experience.
• Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Interested candidates are strongly encouraged to apply by June 10, 2026.
• Always verify and apply to jobs on Federal Reserve System Careers or through verified Federal Reserve Bank social media channels.

District Employment:

The candidate selected for this position will be employed by the Federal Reserve District Bank closest to their geographic location and will serve as an employee of System IT. The selected candidate will be subject to the employing District's people policies and practices, and the ultimate job title and associated pay range will be determined by the employing District.

Full Time / Part Time
Full time

Regular / Temporary
Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)
Yes

Job Category
Information Technology Family Group

Work Shift
First (United States of America)