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 develop processes and documentation, drive new cyber detection capability, and establish the baseline for strategic hunts. This role focuses on hands-on purple team engagements and repeatable, measurable testing to strengthen detection and response across cloud and platform environments.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and document processes: Create and maintain operational processes, runbooks, and documentation that support purple team activities and sustained detection improvements.
  • Drive detection capability: Design and help implement new cyber detection capabilities to improve visibility and accelerate response.
  • Establish hunt baselines: Establish baseline metrics and evidence to support strategic threat hunts.
  • Tactical purple operations: Execute purple team engagements that emulate adversary techniques to validate and improve defensive controls.
  • Repeatable MSV-based testing: Conduct repeatable MSV-based testing to measure detection efficacy and track progress over time.
  • Custom tooling: Develop and use custom tooling to support testing, automation, and analysis workflows.
  • Cloud and platform testing: Perform testing across cloud and platform environments to identify gaps and verify detection and mitigation strategies.

This is a full-time, senior-level position based in Austin, TX.

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