Red Team Operator

CAN-Toronto-19 Duncan Street

Thomson Reuters

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As an employee at Thomson Reuters, you will play a role in shaping and leading the global knowledge economy. Our technology drives global markets and helps professionals around the world make decisions that matter.  Whether solving for today’s challenges or tomorrow’s aspirations, you will work with the industry’s brightest thinkers on diverse projects, creating next-generation solutions that deliver powerful results.   As the world’s leading provider of intelligent information, we want your unique perspective to create the solutions that advance our business—and your career.  

The Information Security and Risk Management (ISRM) group is looking for a Red Team Operator.

About the Role:
  • Crafting Red Team engagement plans based on current threat actors and landscape to emulate real world scenarios.
  • Collaborating with applicable product owners and engineers on timelines, scope, and necessary support
  • Executing Red Team operations while working with product owners, threat detection engineers, and SOC/CIRT to provide meaningful output that can be actioned into security hardening efforts and improved security processes to reduce alert, investigation, and remediation timelines.
  • Writing and communicating detailed reports with findings and recommended follow-on actions.
  • Continuous validation testing in collaboration with threat detection engineers ensuring past operations led to overall increased security posture.

About You:

  • 5+ years with hands-on Red Teaming
  • B.S. in Computer Science or related field
  • OSCP or related cert (such as Red Team Ops I/II)
  • Considered an expert in at least one domain, such as: AWS/Azure/GCP Cloud, Windows AD, EDR evasion, endpoint privilege escalation techniques, etc
  • Ability to code using Python, Golang, C/C++
  • Ability to document and communicate findings
  • Experience with Atomic Red or other automated attack simulation tools
  • Deep knowledge of networking stack

Ways to stand out:

  • Public speaking engagements
  • Published blogs/writeup examples - Advanced certs (OSED, etc.)
  • Post-graduate degree in Computer Science or related field
  • Experience testing AI/ML systems, including LLMs
  • Reverse engineering experience
  • Familiarity with building shellcode (including bypassing DEP and ASLR)
  • Experience with advanced EDR evasion techniques - Knowledge of Threat Detection tools and techniques
  • Expertise in Operating Systems (e.g., how filesystems work, inter-process communication, system calls, etc.)

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What's in it For You?
You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

  • Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected

  • Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

  • Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

  • Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

  • Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

  • Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.


Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward. 

Accessibility 

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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Perks/benefits: Career development Flex hours Flex vacation Health care Transparency

Region: North America
Country: Canada

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