Lead Security Engineer - Purple Team (Dallas Ft Worth Metro) (Irving)

Lead Purple Team Engineer

Hiring near our Irving, TX Center of Excellence

Join a world-class team of skilled engineers who build creative digital solutions to support our colleagues and clients. We make a broad organizational impact by delivering cutting-edge technology solutions that power Gartner. Gartner IT values its culture of nonstop innovation, an outcome-driven approach to success, and the notion that great ideas can come from anyone on the team.

Gartner information security teams are a group of passionate information security professionals dedicated to Protecting, Detecting, and Responding to threats. Our team is filled with lifelong learners who are consistently researching ways to better defend and stay ahead of the threats of tomorrow. We are a collaborative group, where good ideas come together whether they come from the most experienced or the newest members of the team.

As a Lead Purple Team Engineer on the Security Operations team, you will spearhead collaborative offensive and defensive security initiatives to identify and validate vulnerabilities in Gartner's security controls, procedures and infrastructure. You will use your extensive knowledge of attacker tools and techniques (red team) to improve our capability to detect and respond to threats (blue team). You will play a key role in defending Gartner's network and intellectual properties. Our team is filled with lifelong learners who are consistently researching ways to better defend and stay ahead of the threats of tomorrow. We are a collaborative, flexible group, where good ideas are brought forth and acted upon, whether they come from the most experienced or the newest members of the team.

What you will do :

• Lead Purple Team operations by designing, planning and executing purple team exercises and activities that simulate real-world attack scenarios to test and improve detection and response capabilities.
• Work closely with teams such as the Security Operations Center (SOC), Threat Intelligence, and Detection Engineering to help identify and remediate gaps in existing controls
• Develop new, and tune existing attack emulations based on use-cases and strategy, drawing from threat intelligence and current events
• Play a key role in Threat Modeling exercises
• Assist and support SOC analysts during ad-hoc Incident Response activities
• Build and maintain tools and scripts to support purple team activities, including automation of attack simulations and telemetry analysis
• Assist in the development of innovative and cutting-edge detection content aligned with ATT&CK, Cyber Kill Chain, and various other cyber security frameworks
• Bring your own ideas and solutions to a fast-paced, growing, and evolving team centered around operational excellence
• Act as a mentor to junior team members, promote knowledge sharing and contribute to the strategic direction of the Security Operations team.

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Who you are :

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What you will get :

At Gartner, Inc. (NYSE : IT), we guide the leaders who shape the world.

Our mission relies on expert analysis and bold ideas to deliver actionable, objective insight, helping enterprise leaders and their teams succeed with their mission-critical priorities.

Since our founding in 1979, we've grown to more than 21,000 associates globally who support ~14,000 client enterprises in ~90 countries and territories. We do important, interesting and substantive work that matters. That's why we hire associates with the intellectual curiosity, energy and drive to want to make a difference. The bar is unapologetically high. So is the impact you can have here.

Our sustained success creates limitless opportunities for you to grow professionally and flourish personally. We have a vast, virtually untapped market potential ahead of us, providing you with an exciting trajectory long into the future. How far you go is driven by your passion and performance.

We hire remarkable people who collaborate and win as a team. Together, our singular, unifying goal is to deliver results for our clients.

Our teams are inclusive and composed of individuals from different geographies, cultures, religions, ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, abilities and generations.

We invest in great leaders who bring out the best in you and the company, enabling us to multiply our impact and results. This is why, year after year, we are recognized worldwide as a great place to work.

Gartner offers world-class benefits, highly competitive compensation and disproportionate rewards for top performers.

In our hybrid work environment, we provide the flexibility and support for you to thrive working virtually when it's productive to do so and getting together with colleagues in a vibrant community that is purposeful, engaging and inspiring.

Ready to grow your career with Gartner? Join us.

Gartner believes in fair and equitable pay. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is 116,000 USD - 163,000 USD. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range, or be above or below the range, based on factors including, but not limited to, education, training, experience, professional achievement, business need, and location. In addition to base salary, employees will participate in either an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, or a role-based, uncapped sales incentive plan. Our talent acquisition team will provide the specific opportunity on our bonus or incentive programs to eligible candidates. We also offer market leading benefit programs including generous PTO, a 401k match up to $7,200 per year, the opportunity to