Listing Description

Flatiron School is hiring a fixed term Cybersecurity Coach to support our students remotely, acting as a supporting instructor while students are working through the curriculum. Cybersecurity coaches work in close collaboration with Instructors to determine how to maximize their time and support for students in our program. Coaches may support students through 1:1 check-ins, helping students uncover the solutions to technical labs and assignments by guiding them through a process of directed inquiries and incremental hints, and leveraging other methods of academic support and intervention in conjunction with their team. 

In this role, your responsibilities will include guiding students through technical challenges while they are working through Flatiron School’s Cybersecurity curriculum, helping them to deepen their understanding of Cybersecurity concepts, and providing feedback to help evaluate student knowledge of a specific content area. Successful Cybersecurity Coaches can inspire and energize students to help them build their confidence as they work through difficult challenges in the Flatiron School curriculum.

Responsibilities:

• Guide students through labs efficiently, effectively, and with kindness when they’re stuck


• Conduct project review assessments by objectively evaluating student knowledge against the Flatiron School standards in each Course and Phase of the curriculum.


• Work hand in hand with instructional team on monitoring student aptitude and progress; collaborate on remediation plans and support plans as necessary


• Participate in pilots aimed at bettering our student experience and outcomes


• Integrate feedback given by students, colleagues, and managers to continually improve


• Support students on projects and assessments, helping to identify their strengths and weaknesses


• Embrace change and thrive in ambiguity by helping students and staff with real-time efforts, like being part of new experiments and initiatives, troubleshooting features that are shared to students, and escalating issues that you need help within a timely manner


• Strive to ask questions and provide solutions rather than simply pointing out problems


• Collaborate with teammates to address outstanding student issues


• Strong communication skills, and great judgment about what communications to use in a particular situation or on a particular medium


• Service orientation: You’re delighted to help people succeed, whether that’s your colleagues at Flatiron School, or the students you’re teaching


• The ability to work cross-functionally with a variety of colleagues, from curriculum developers to instructors to the Technical Faculty Manager.


• Knowledge and experience/familiarity in some of the following:
  
  
  
  • Network security, systems security, logs and detection administration, cyber threat intelligence processes, cryptography, application security, python coding, penetration testing, and GRC
  
  
  • Linux, Windows, Mac OS and their performance monitoring tools
  
  
  • Wireshark, Command Line Network Tools (SSH, nmap, netstat, etc.), Vulnerability
  
  
  • Predominantly SPLUNK
  
  
  • Operating Systems
  
  
  • Applied Knowledge in GRC and RMF
  
  
  • Physical and Virtual Networking
  
  
  • Governance, Compliance, Risk Management Framework, Incident Response Planning
  
  
  • SIEM, System/Application Monitoring, or Performance Tools
  
  
  • Applied cryptography and cryptographic protocols
  
  
  • Application development using Python, additional languages a plus
  
  
  • Fundamentals of Penetration Testing
  
  
  
  

Expected Compensation: 

• $11K to $13,500K for a fixed term contract running through April 21, 2023