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These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.\nJOIN TARGET CYBERSECURITY AS A SENIOR ENGINEER - RED TEAM\nAbout Us\nWorking at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here.\nThe Cyber Fusion Center is the heart of Target’s security team and a place where innovation happens daily. Interested in a culture that combines ongoing learning, engineering excellence, and stellar outcomes? We are too and that’s why we work here. Join our team to work on ops that drive real change by leveraging adversary behavior to communicate discovered risk effectively, and benefit from continuous development and research.\nAbout Red Team\nTarget's Red Team uses adversary simulation to uncover risk in our environment, provide training opportunities to defenders, and measure the processes and technology defending the organization. We leverage a high level of collaboration between teams as we drive organizational improvement. Our objective-driven operations are supplemented with direct training and development, Purple Team work, and consulting within the company on security. As a Red Team Senior Engineer, you will conduct operations, contribute to the team, and influence team direction.\nRed Team members regularly:\nConsult on, design, and execute adversary emulation operations\nConduct research into real-world threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures to develop proof-of-concept tools and playbooks\nBypass preventative and detective security controls to accomplish operational goals\nPartner with the Cyber Security Incident Response Team and other stakeholders in the organization to identify improvement opportunities\nCollaborate with Cyber Threat Intelligence, Detection, and Threat Hunting engineers and analysts on research\nWork with non-security engineering teams to educate, and collaborate on operational objectives\nExpect To:\nExecute adversary emulation and simulation operations\nBypass preventative and detective controls to accomplish operational goals\n Conduct research into the real-world threat actors, techniques, and procedures to develop and document proof-of-concept tools and playbooks\nTake direction from Lead and Principal engineers on specific tool documentation tasks to advance team's overall strategic goals\nPartner with the cybersecurity Incident Response Team, Threat Management, and other stakeholders in the organization to identify improvement opportunities\nCollaborate with Cyber Threat Intelligence, Detection, and Threat Hunting engineers and analysts on research\nWork with non-security engineering teams to educate, and collaborate on operational objectives\nConsistently grow in your abilities\nPartner with other Team Members to improve tools and procedures, including development\nAbout You\n4-year degree or equivalent experience\n3+ years minimum experience in technology, time in offensive security or defensive is preferred\nStrong offensive security knowledge\nProficiency in Windows, Linux, or Mac internals and native tools\nDemonstrates understanding of the impact of Red Team work on an organization and its customers\nSeeks out cross-functional collaboration opportunities\nDesigns new testing methods and resolves routine and non-routine technical issues with minimal assistance\nStays current on relevant technologies with self-directed learning\nDesirable Skills:\nDeep Red Team adversary emulation experience\nExperience working on or with Blue Teams, including Incident Response, or Detection\nExperience working in large, complex organizations\nPython, C#, Rust, Go, or C skills\nSolving difficult problems, and creatively subverting systems\nAbility to replicate the tools and techniques of in-the-wild threat actors\nFollows Threat Actor trends impacting organizational security\nThis position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target’s needs. 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