Listing Description
Who is SimSpace:
SimSpace Corporation launched in 2015 with a singular purpose – addressing the most demanding cybersecurity challenges to reduce organizational cyber risk. Our exclusive cyber range provides the best platform for product testing, real-world attack simulations, and extensive individual and team readiness training.
We are a fast-growing leader in the cyber range market and enable organizations to ensure that their people, processes, and technology are all ready to operate in harmony. SimSpace is disrupting the status quo for cybersecurity risk and readiness. Our advanced cyber security stack evaluations, automatic attack/defend bots, and cyber range technologies are changing the way security teams learn, grow, and work. We are a hybrid remote/in-person company with an amazing office in Boston's Fort Point. We also have a distributed team outside of Boston. We do value in-person collaboration, so if you're located in Boston, we'd love to have you in the office when it's possible!
Summary of the role:
We are looking for a highly motivated Senior Cybersecurity Professional that is equally comfortable in the classroom, or in front of customers providing insights and feedback on their performance as a team in a live red-v-blue exercise. The ideal candidate has a strong technical background, is enthusiastic, is good at problem solving, has a strong desire to learn, prefers to be hands-on technically, and constantly strives for excellence. The Senior Cybersecurity Engineer/Instructor will deliver instructional content to customers, work with content architects to vet instructional material, train 3rd party trainers and new users how to effectively leverage the SimSpace platform, and facilitate a variety of exercises for SimSpace and our customers. When facilitating exercises, you will be responsible for teaching the security concepts, demonstrating practical/hands-on use of open source and commercial security tools; referencing both well established and cutting edge techniques that Cyber Security Incident Response Teams might use to effectively defend their networks from advanced cyber threats.
The Senior Cybersecurity Engineer/Instructor will work closely with cross-functional teams of product managers, product owners, software engineers, content developers, range engineers, DevOps, QA teams, customer success representatives, customer trainees, and 3rd party trainers for the purpose of delivering the highest quality experience to our customers.
What you will do:
- Deploy, configure and provide support for tool sets in-range that will be utilized by security teams and incident responders; including EDR software, logging solutions, forensic software and network monitoring products
- Generate and build upon attack/defend scenarios and skills development labs that teach the full range of cyber defense techniques of hardening, monitoring, pursuit, and cyber intelligence
- Review and contribute to learning materials in the form of briefings, white papers, videos, practical exercises, and games
- Work with our range operations and DevOps teams to develop toolsets and scenarios within a cybersecurity range to model real-world threat defense scenarios
- Support assessment of customer security teams and customer events (travel estimated at up to 25%)
- Assess and communicate the skills and level of cyber defense of individuals and teams prior to, during and post events via both oral and written deliverables
You have:
- A detailed understanding of global, national and industry cyber security recommended best practices and frameworks (NIST, SANS, CIS, DoD)
- Practical experience as a practitioner of cyber red-v-blue exercise concepts as a learning technique
- Practical networking experience inside of business and LAN environments
- A clear understanding of the current state-of-the-art in computer and network security practices and research, to include exploit mitigation, countermeasures, detection, forensics, auditing and other defensive tools
- Complete understanding of adversary kill-chain and exploitation scenarios
- Broad knowledge of standard security-centric tools such as logging and monitoring, along with deep specialization knowledge in one of Windows Domain Security, Windows Forensics, Linux Security, or Network Security
- Demonstrable strong oral and written communication skills and comfortable presenting both virtually and in-person
- Classroom Instruction (3+ years)
- Scripting in PowerShell, Python, Ruby or similar language
- Active Directory (3+ years)
- Databases such as Elastic, SQL Server, Postgres and/or MySQL (1+ years)
- Network analysis tools such as Wireshark, tcpdump and nmap (3+ years)
- Deep knowledge of TCP/IP, and the ability to quickly learn new firewall/router devices
- Host analysis experience (forensics, memory analysis, malware analysis, or DFIR experience)
Your skills:
- Knowledgeable in several aspects of cyber security as applied to Windows, Linux, network infrastructure/components, and cyber Intelligence
- Can develop and present your own training materials based on your assessment of customer needs
- Can build and operate your own defensive toolsets
- Experience in multiple technical areas to include incident response, vulnerability assessment, risk management, information assurance, scripting, cyber intelligence, forensics, malware analysis, network and/or host-based monitoring
- Cyber security classes and credentials are a plus: Preferred security credentials include GCIH or one of GCIA, GCWN, GNFA, OSCP, or demonstrable equivalent knowledge
- Professional level certification in vendor platforms such as Windows, RedHat, Cisco or other systems a plus
- Will consider both generalists with a background in security and devops system-administration, and specialists in specific aspects: (ie Windows defense/forensics, network security monitoring, unix defense/monitoring, etc)
- Hands-on experience or familiarity with open source and commercial cybersecurity products such as Security Onion, ELK, Snort, Splunk, Security Analytics, Tanium, Crowdstrike, Carbon Black, Cyber Reason or others is essential
SimSpace is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides extensive Benefits including:
- Competitive salary and benefits (medical, dental, company-paid vision, 401k, savings and spending accounts, Employee Assistance Program, company-paid Life and AD&D Insurance)
- Unlimited paid time off
- Salary Range $135,000-$170,000
- Equity options at hire and potential for additional based on performance
- Generous employee referral bonus program
- Peloton Interactive Wellness Program
- Semi-flexible hours, with the expectation that you overlap the main part of the day to meet deadlines, collaborate with colleagues and attend key meetings.
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.
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Listing Details
- Salary: $135000 - $170000
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