Join Motive as a Red Team Security Engineer to enhance security across cloud environments and drive remediation efforts.
Posted by employer 2 days ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 day ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Plan and execute red team operations
- Evaluate the security of cloud infrastructure
- Identify and validate attack paths
- Assess detection and response coverage
- Track emerging attacker techniques
Must have
- 5+ years of experience in offensive security
- Familiarity with attacker tactics and procedures
- Ability to write concise, actionable reports
- Relevant industry certifications
AI in the day-to-day
Motive platform uses industry-leading AI for visibility and control.
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Visa
- No sponsorship (stated in posting)
Benefits
Joblaze summary
In the role of Red Team Security Engineer, the individual will conduct offensive security assessments and adversary simulations, primarily focusing on cloud environments. Key skills include expertise in red teaming, penetration testing, and familiarity with frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK, alongside the ability to communicate complex findings effectively. This position is suited for experienced professionals with over five years in offensive security, particularly those with relevant industry certifications. The role is part of a Product Security Team that emphasizes collaboration with software and engineering teams to enhance security posture.
Joblaze insights
- Listed yesterday on Joblaze — tracked directly from Motive's career page.
- Motive has 149 other open roles including Installations Specialist, Manager, Business Operations & Strategy, Account Executive, SMB - MX.
- 534 active CI/CD roles on Joblaze right now.
- 526 active Cloud roles on Joblaze right now.
- 65 active IAM roles on Joblaze right now.
- Pays more than 16% of the 255 salaried Cloud roles we track (median $164,594). See Cloud salary trends
Quick facts
- Is the Red Team Security Engineer role remote?
- Yes — Motive lists this as a fully remote position.
- What's the salary range?
- Motive lists CAD 146,000–CAD 190,000 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Red Team Security Engineer role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: CI/CD, Cloud, IAM, MITRE ATT&CK, containerization.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Motive targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Red Team Security Engineer role at Motive.
From the original posting
Who we are:
Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time ever, safety, operations and finance teams can manage their drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet related spend in a single system. Combined with industry leading AI, the Motive platform gives you complete visibility and control, and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks.
Motive serves nearly 100,000 customers – from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses – across a wide range of industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector.
Visit gomotive.com to learn more.
About the Role:
As a Red Team Security Engineer you will be a key member of the Product Security Team. You will be the primary Security partner for software and engineering teams focusing on evaluating security posture across the organization. The Red Team Engineer will be responsible for conducting adversary emulation and offensive security assessments across cloud environments while driving remediation efforts of issues.
What You'll Do:
- Plan and execute red team operations, adversary simulations, and targeted security assessments focused on cloud environments.
- Evaluate the security of 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 in partnership with blue team and detection engineering functions.
- Track emerging attacker techniques, cloud exploitation trends, and new abuse paths relevant to modern enterprise environments.
What We're Looking For:
- 5+ years of experience in offensive security, red teaming, penetration testing, and detection validation
- Familiarity with attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures, and the ability to map 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.
Pay Transparency
Your compensation may be based on several factors, including education, work experience, and certifications. For certain roles, total compensation may include restricted stock units. Motive offers benefits including health, pharmacy, optical and dental care benefits, paid time off, sick time off, short term and long term disability coverage, life insurance as well as 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Learn more about our benefits by visiting Motive Perks & Benefits.
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