Senior Cybersecurity Engineer – Adversary Operations, Innovation & Purple Team Operations – On-site

📍 Location Austin, TX
💼 Job Type Full-time
⏱ Time Type On-site
💰 Salary Not specified (disclosed during hiring process) USD

As a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer on the Adversary Operations, Innovation & Purple Team Operations team, you will design and document processes, drive new cyber detection capabilities, and establish baselines for strategic hunting. You will execute tactical purple team operations and repeatable testing, develop and use custom tooling, and perform both cloud and platform testing to improve detection and response posture.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop, refine, and maintain processes and documentation that support adversary operations and purple team activities.
  • Drive the creation and enhancement of cyber detection capabilities.
  • Establish baselines to inform and enable strategic threat-hunting efforts.
  • Perform tactical purple team operations to validate defenses and detection coverage.
  • Execute repeatable MSV-based testing to assess effectiveness and consistency of controls.
  • Design, build, and leverage custom tooling to support testing and operational objectives.
  • Conduct cloud and platform testing to identify gaps and improve overall security posture.

Deliverables & Outcomes

  • Clear, actionable processes and documentation for adversary and purple team workflows.
  • Measurable improvements in detection capability and hunting readiness.
  • Repeatable test artifacts and tooling that increase efficiency and reliability of assessments.
  • Validated findings from cloud and platform tests that inform remediation and detection tuning.

Working Context

  • Role focuses on hands-on adversary simulation, detection engineering, and test automation within purple team operations.
  • Position is accountable for establishing baselines and repeatable methodologies that support strategic hunts and continuous improvement.

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