Adversarial Simulation Lead

Ardent is seeking an Adversarial Simulation Lead to join our team.  

This is a remote position with expected travel to Tallahassee, FL. 

Position Description:

Ardent is seeking a Adversarial Simulation Lead to plan and execute controlled, threat-informed simulations that test whether access controls, monitoring, and detection processes function together under realistic operating conditions. The role performs only explicitly authorized activities within agency-specific, Rules of Engagement and prioritizes safe execution, deconfliction, evidentiary rigor, and operational relevance across a potentially broad multi-agency environment.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Translate approved control objectives into safe adversary-behavior simulations and test cases aligned to selected kill-chain stages and MITRE ATT&CK techniques.
• Develop agency-specific Rules of Engagement inputs covering authorized systems, windows, accounts, techniques, tools, prohibitions, notifications, deconfliction, stop-work conditions, evidence handling, and escalation.
• Execute approved access-control stress tests, privilege-boundary attempts, anomaly generation, endpoint/network