Senior Cyber Range Engineer 2

Who is SimSpace:

SimSpace launched in 2015 with a singular purpose – addressing the most urgent and sophisticated cybersecurity challenges to reduce risk for our most vulnerable and valuable infrastructure. The organizations around the world that we depend on every day to keep our loved ones safe and secure. Our healthcare facilities, schools, financial institutions, transit centers, grocery stores, and workplaces just to name a few. To deliver global resiliency, we provide an elite cyber range platform to curate unassailable cyber defenses, data driven decisions, cutting edge training labs, live attack scenarios, and extensive individual and dynamic team readiness training.

SimSpace works as OneTeam to elevate humanity around the world. We are committed to continuously improving and delivering a cultivated member experience whether that is accomplished through focusing on supporting our client’s teams or our own mission driven SimSpacers.

We are an international hybrid, remote, and in-person company headquartered in Boston's Fort Point in the U.S. If you are interested in elevating the technology and creative solutions necessary to secure and safeguard our future while working alongside others who share your passion for purpose and development, we want to meet you!

Why should you choose a career at SimSpace?

We are an organization that is focused on building our culture and mindfully enhancing our atmosphere everyday which is why we have collaborated on an integral value system. Our governing philosophy of being Human Centered is deeply embedded within our value system. We apply this philosophy to every one of our internal team members, external clients, and their customers.

Our core values:

• Serve to Protect – We provide safe space, deliver on the mission, and elevate humanity
• Acquire Understanding – We seek and provide clarity 10x, cultivate comprehension, and believe information goes both all ways
• Operate as Innovators – We stay curious, practice consistency over intensity, and continue to be the change we need in the world
• Teamwork Without Borders – We are never alone, we solve for all, and keep people at the heart of everything we do
  
  

What will you be doing as a Senior Cyber Range Engineer 2 at SimSpace?

• Design and architect complex computer networks for testing and training
• Ensure the networks are running properly with hosts, servers and services configured to dynamic customer or industry goals
• Ensure the security tools are properly setup and configured
• Ensure the traffic generators (user emulation) are properly modeling user behaviors
• Ensure the attack generators are setup to execute the available attack scenarios
• Troubleshoot cyber range components from networking, system administration, and SimSpace technologies utilizing a variety of technical methods
• Participate in discussions with customers to help identify cyber range requirements based on their specific objectives and use cases
• Work in an open communication collaboration environment that reaches across functional teams
• Perform required tasks solely, in conjunction with other team members or vendors, as well as being able to take lead and accountability for specific tasks and projects
• Perform required tasks quickly and efficiently during highly visible customer events
• Utilize time management skills to deliver on time
• Engage with customers to identify content management requirements based on their specific objectives and use cases
• Oversee the creation, organization and publishing of content across vendors and platforms
• Maintain and develop queries to conduct data analysis of user engagement with content to provide feedback to vendors
• Develop and enforce best practices and policies for content management to constantly improve the user experience
• Monitor helpdesk tickets for content-related issues and coordinate with vendors for resolutions
• Responsible for supporting and maintaining order, organization, and efficient use of resources with respect to content in-range within the Event Plan (training, attack, and range) within all PCTE instances
• Maintain replicated content across several deployment instances ensuring efficient use of resources and time
• Verify content access permissions and modify as necessary
• Maintain the content catalog in all deployment locations
• Provide recommendations to content creation teams on range content for inefficient use of hardware resources (compute and storage) and provide recommendations to Technical Operations Management
• Maintain inventory, assignment, and maintain licenses for enterprise commercial firewalls, routers, and security software
• Maintain and publish ‘validated content’ and remove, archive duplicate, or expired content and keep the customer informed
  
  

What are the qualifications to apply? To be successful as a Senior Cyber Range Engineer 2, you need to have:

• 8+ years’ experience in a technical field
• 1+ years of practical experience with different Cloud Service Providers (GCP, AWS, Azure, Oracle, Digital Ocean)
• 2+ years of experience with VMware vCenter
• 5+ years of experience running and maintaining complex Enterprise IT systems
• 5+ years of experience deploying, operating, and configuring Windows and Linux
• 5+ years of experience with a scripting language such as Python or PowerShell
• A strong understanding of computer networking principles (OSI layers, Firewalls, VLANs, VPNs)
• A strong understanding of cyber security tools (SIEM, Proxy, AV, EDR, DLP, HID/NID, HIP/NIP, Forensics)
• Experience with configuration management tools (such as Puppet or Ansible)
• An understanding of computing security practices, both technical and social
• Ability to perform required tasks solely, in conjunction with other team members or vendors, as well as being able to take lead and accountability for specific tasks and projects
• Experienced working in support workflows
• U.S. citizenship as required by our existing U.S. Government contracts
• Currently hold an active TS/SCI Security Clearance or have the ability to obtain one
• Must have an active CI Polygraph or willingness to submit to one
  
  

Preferred:

• Cybersecurity credentials, including; DoD Approved 8570 Baseline Certifications or demonstrable equivalent knowledge and willingness to obtain a 8570 certification
  
  

We provide the following:

• Competitive Salary for On-site work location (SCIF): $150,000 - $185,000
• Comprehensive benefits package that start on day one
• 401k match with immediate vesting
• Flex time, the time off you need when you need it
• Equity options at hire and potential for additional based on performance
• Generous employee referral bonus program
• Peloton Interactive Wellness Program
• LinkedIn Learning Membership
• Monthly reimbursement for meaningful connections with other SimSpacers
  
  

SimSpace is an Equal Opportunity Employer:

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.

SimSpace does not and shall not discriminate based on race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression and identity, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military/veteran status, in any of its activities or operations. We are committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for all members of our staff, clients, volunteers, subcontractors, vendors, and clients.

Research shows that women and people from underrepresented groups only apply to jobs if they meet all of the qualifications. However, no one ever meets 100% of the qualifications. SimSpace encourages you to break that statistic and to apply. We look forward to your application!

We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, in accordance with applicable law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please contact careers@simspace.com.

SimSpace does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies.

Actual compensation for the position is based on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to affordability, skills, qualifications and experience, and may vary from the range.