# Red Team Security Engineer

**Company:** [Motive](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/motive)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** CA$146k – CA$190k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Cloud Security, Red Teaming, Adversary Emulation, Penetration Testing, Cloud Infrastructure, IAM, CI/CD, Containers, Mitre Att&Ck, Incident Response, Detection Engineering, Oscp, Osep, Gpen
**Posted:** 2026-09-09

> Conduct cloud-focused red team operations, adversary simulations, and offensive security assessments while validating detection coverage and driving remediation. Requires at least five years of offensive security experience and familiarity with attacker techniques, cloud environments, and MITRE ATT&CK.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Plan and execute red team operations, adversary simulations, and targeted security assessments focused on cloud environments.
- Evaluate cloud infrastructure, identity architectures, CI/CD pipelines, containerized workloads, and cloud-native services.
- Identify and validate attack paths involving IAM misconfigurations, overprivileged roles, secrets exposure, metadata abuse, insecure automation, and weaknesses in cloud service configurations.
- Assess detection and response coverage by exercising logging, alerting, monitoring, and incident response processes with blue team and detection engineering functions.
- Track emerging attacker techniques, cloud exploitation trends, and abuse paths relevant to modern enterprise environments.
- Drive remediation efforts and communicate findings to software and engineering teams.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in offensive security, red teaming, penetration testing, and detection validation.
- Familiarity with attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures, including mapping findings to frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK.
- Ability to write concise, actionable reports and communicate complex technical issues to diverse stakeholders.
- Relevant industry certifications such as OSCP, OSEP, GXPN, GPEN, or cloud security certifications.

## Compensation
- CAD $146,000–$190,000 annually.
- Benefits include health, pharmacy, optical and dental care, paid time off, disability coverage, life insurance, and 401(k) contributions, subject to eligibility.

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