Lockheed seeks red‑team operators

Lockheed Martin posted a new opening on April 6 for a hybrid “LM Red Team - Covert Operations” role that centers on offensive cyber testing inside the company. (lockheedmartinjobs.com) The posting lists Bethesda, Maryland, Fort Worth, Texas, and Orlando, Florida, and says the job reports to the manager of covert operations in Lockheed Martin’s Corporate Information Security Intelligence, Readiness and Response organization. (lockheedmartinjobs.com) A red team is a company’s in-house attacker: employees are told to break into systems the way a real adversary would, then document how they got in and how to shut the path down. Lockheed says this role would lead exploitation, penetration testing, research, and development across its enterprise, products, programs, and technologies. (lockheedmartinjobs.com) The salary range in the posting runs from $82,900 to $146,165, while a parallel listing on ClearanceJobs shows the same role with the same range and says it requires an active security clearance. (lockheedmartinjobs.com) (clearancejobs.com) Lockheed’s description puts the emphasis on “known or custom-built” tactics, techniques, and procedures, which is recruiter language for building or adapting attack methods instead of only running standard security scanners. The company says the goal is to identify attack vectors and remediation steps before outside attackers do. (lockheedmartinjobs.com) The required skills are broad: the posting asks for experience with Windows, Linux, and macOS; scripting in Python, Bash, and PowerShell; web and network testing; malware analysis; mobile and cloud technologies; and social engineering. It also asks for “full lifecycle” operations, from reconnaissance and payload development to command-and-control and exfiltration. (lockheedmartinjobs.com) That mix reflects the kind of systems Lockheed builds and protects. In its 2025 annual report, the company said it serves defense, space, intelligence, homeland security, information technology, and cybersecurity customers, with the United States government as its biggest customer. (lockheedmartin.com) (sec.gov) Lockheed has described red teaming publicly before. In a company white paper, its red team said it assesses the corporation’s security posture by emulating adversarial tactics, techniques, and procedures and reporting the vulnerabilities it exploited during tests. (lockheedmartin.com) The company also says cybersecurity oversight sits at the board level because aerospace and defense face elevated cyber risk. Its latest annual filing says the full board retains oversight of cybersecurity, apart from classified business cybersecurity, because of the industry’s “heightened risk.” (sec.gov) So the opening is not a generic “ethical hacker” ad. It is a defense-contractor role for someone cleared to simulate sophisticated intrusions against the networks and technologies behind one of the Pentagon’s largest suppliers. (lockheedmartinjobs.com) (lockheedmartin.com)