Offensive & Defensive Security Specialist | $95/hr Remote

Position: Cyber Security Expert (Red Team / Blue Team) Type: Hourly Contract Compensation: $85–$95/hour Location: Remote Commitment: Flexible | Project-based Role Responsibilities • Apply real-world defensive and offensive cybersecurity expertise to evaluate and stress-test AI systems built for threat detection, incident response, and attack simulation. • Investigate and analyze real or simulated incidents such as phishing, ransomware, lateral movement, and privilege escalation. • Review logs and telemetry from SIEM, EDR/XDR, firewall, cloud, and identity systems. • Map adversary behaviors using frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK and assess detection quality, triage decisions, and response workflows. • Analyze attack chains including initial access, persistence, privilege escalation, lateral movement, and data exfiltration. • Simulate adversarial thinking to identify detection gaps, bypass techniques, and evasion strategies. • Evaluate AI-generated investigations for technical accuracy, operational realism, and logical reasoning. • Provide structured feedback to refine benchmarks for detection, triage, and attack simulation accuracy. Requirements • Strong experience of cybersecurity experience in roles such as SOC Analyst (Level II/III), Incident Responder, Detection Engineer, Threat Hunter, Red Team Operator, Penetration Tester, or Security Consultant (Offensive Security). • Hands-on experience responding to or conducting real-world security incidents. • Strong Blue Team experience with SIEM platforms (e.g., Splunk, Sentinel, QRadar, Elastic), EDR/XDR tools (e.g., CrowdStrike, Defender, Carbon Black), log analysis, event correlation, and network traffic analysis (e.g., Wireshark, Zeek, tcpdump). • Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK mapping and detection engineering practices. • Red Team experience with penetration testing methodologies, adversary emulation, exploitation frameworks (e.g., Metasploit, Cobalt Strike or equivalents), privilege escalation, lateral movement, and evasion techniques. • Understanding of Active Directory attacks, phishing frameworks, and payload development is a plus. • Strong written documentation skills explaining investigative and adversarial reasoning. • Ability to think from both attacker and defender perspectives and perform structured, logical analysis. Application Process • Upload resume • Interview • Submit form