Senior Red Team Cybersecurity Specialist

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

When you join the Federal Reserve—the nation's central bank—you’ll play a key role, collaborating with leading tech professionals to strengthen and protect our economic, financial and payments systems. We invest in contemporary and emerging technology each year to support the Federal Reserve and our economy, and we’re building a dynamic team for our future.

Bring your passion and expertise, and we’ll provide the opportunities that will challenge you and propel your growth—along with a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health, wealth, and life. In addition to competitive compensation, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes tuition assistance, generous paid time off, top-notch health care benefits, child and family care leave, professional development opportunities, a 401(k) match, pension, and more. All brought together in a work environment where you can truly find balance.

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 (Senior Cybersecurity Advisor), 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 

Discover the Reason Why So Many People Love It Here! 

When you join Federal Reserve’s National IT organization, not only will you find a challenging and purposeful career, you’ll also have access to a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health and wealth, including: 

•  Great medical benefits 

• Pension and 401(k) with employer match 

• Paid time off 

• Tuition reimbursement 

• Employee resource networks 

• Paid volunteer leave 

• Onsite amenities that make working here fun! 

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.  

• If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please notify [email protected]. 

• 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 (Senior Cybersecurity Advisor) 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. 

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)

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