Red Team, Team Leader

Sygnia is the foremost global cyber readiness and response team, applying creative approaches and battle-tested solutions to help organizations beat attackers and stay secure. With a team of deep digital combat, leading- edge, purpose-built technology, and enterprise security specialists, it enables companies to proactively build cyber resilience and defeat attacks within their networks. Sygnia is a trusted advisor and service provider of technology and security teams, executives and boards of leading organizations worldwide. Sygnia supports clients at each stage of their security journey, bringing frontline experience and technological acumen to help them be unstoppable in the face of cyber threats.

The company draws on top talent from the ranks of elite military technology units and from across the cyber industry, and has some of the world’s top talents in cyber security. Described by Forbes as a “cyber security delta force”, Sygnia applies technological supremacy, digital combat experience, data analytics and a business-driven mindset to cyber security, enabling organizations to excel in the age of cyber.

Sygnia is looking for a “Red Team” Team Leader to manage a team of highly skilled red teamers. The team leader will lead and participate in “red teaming”, “purple teaming”, advanced penetration testing, and adversarial simulations. In this role, the Team Leader will assist organizations worldwide in enhancing their cybersecurity resilience by providing an attacker's perspective and identifying high-impact attack vectors likely to be used by threat actors.

The successful candidate should possess a passion for cybersecurity, strong technical offensive security skills, an attacker mindset, and the ability to lead, mentor, and grow a highly capable red team.

Main Responsibilities:

• Lead a diverse team of highly skilled red teamers and penetration testers, specializing in infrastructure, cloud, and product security.
• Recruit and mentor team members, providing oversight, guidance, and support while fostering an environment of continuous learning and excellence.
• Design and execute attacks against organizations services, platforms and infrastructures, to identify vulnerabilities, and uncover risk, before attackers can exploit them.
• Leverage an attacker mindset to support and guide organizations in strengthening their resilience.
• Engage in modeling and adversarial simulation processes.
• Adopt new TTPs and apply those in Red and Purple team engagements.
• Validate the organization's ability to detect, respond to, and recover from targeted attacks and persistent threats.

Requirements:

• with a deep understanding of and experience in penetration testing methodologies and tools.
• Experience in technical management roles.
• Proven technical skills across a broad technology set, including the ability to develop offensive security tools.
• Demonstrated experience in scripting and using development tools (C/C++, Python, PowerShell, .NET).
• Experience in professional services consulting – an advantage.
• Experience in reverse engineering – an advantage.
• Ability to perform and thrive in a dynamic environment, working on multiple projects simultaneously under tight deadlines.
• Fluent English (written and spoken).
• Willingness to travel abroad.