Training Architect

Responsibilities

• Ensure the availability and functionality of training labs across all course offerings
• Work in partnership with Course Architects to design hands-on labs that complement course content and objectives
• Collaborate to ensure that lab activities align with the training goals and provide practical, real-world experiences for participants
• Create proof of concept labs using Ansible playbooks to automate the deployment and configuration of lab environments
• Develop proof of concept labs using Ansible playbooks to automate the deployment and configuration of lab environments
• Ensure that proof of concept labs are scalable, repeatable, and well-documented
• Capture the Flag (CTF) Design and Development
• Demonstrate project management from product design and development to client communication for expectations of delivery
• Communicate project successes and issues throughout the development while prioritizing tasks for future improvement
• Deploy labs into the OpenStack cloud environment and AWS, ensuring that the labs are accessible to participants for training purposes
• Create and maintain comprehensive lab documentation, including setup instructions, troubleshooting guides, and lab manuals
• Update lab documentation as needed to reflect changes in course content or lab environments
• Provide technical support to instructors and participants during training sessions to resolve lab-related issues or questions
• Troubleshoot and resolve lab environment problems promptly
• Conduct regular testing and quality assurance checks to ensure that labs are functional and error-free
• Collaborate with Course Architects to make necessary adjustments and improvements to labs

Requirements

• Experience with automated infrastructure and configuration technologies such as Ansible or Terraform
• Experience in balancing multiple projects at once
• Experience communicating with clients and delivering presentations
• Ability to independently manage internal projects
• Able to assist with scoping prospective engagements, participating in technical testing from kickoff through remediation, and mentoring less experienced staff
• Able to effectively communicate successes and obstacles with clients, fellow team members, team lead(s), and upper management for project delivery
• Able to coordinate and prepare for internal and customer facing meetings
• Able to lead projects for infrastructure development, automated deployments, and technology maintenance
• Able to work with multiple departments to facilitate development work, scheduling, and guide development teams to meet agreed upon deliverable deadlines
• Able to develop or refine processes working with multiple departments
• Able to learn from others
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy
• Foundational knowledge of cyber security concepts
• Able to contribute new or improve existing content for SpecterOps training courses and assist in the delivery of course offerings (instruction, lab support, etc)
• Able to travel domestically or internationally an average of 10-25% over the course of one year

Qualifications

• Desire to embody our core values of passionate curiosity, consistent improvement, empathy, sustainability, humility, and empowerment through transparency
• Nice to haves include:
• Bachelor's degree in a technical field
• Experience participating in and/or leading Fortune 1000 and/or large Federal Government security assessments
• Public community contributions (e.g., conference presentations, blog posts, white papers, public tool development)
• Experience in administering, attacking, or defending Windows/Active Directory, Linux, and/or macOS environments
• Experience in technical writing
• Experience working for a service-based information security consultancy
• Experience developing and/or providing technical training
• Desire to teach and train students in offensive techniques
• Desire to travel internationally and domestically on a more frequent basis

Benefits

• Health/Dental/Vision/life insurance: 100% covered for both the employee and their family
• Flexible time off policy 13 paid holidays annually
• 401(k) with up to 4% company match
• Equity and quarterly bonus based on company performance
• Remote work: $1,500 first year allowance to set up home office
• $500 annual home office allowance after the first year
• $150 monthly cell phone and internet reimbursement
• $5,000 annual professional development allowance
• $5,250 towards continuing education or student loan repayment
• $1,200 annual benefit for lifestyle, wellness, pet insurance and more
• A one-time $10,000 benefit towards family planning
• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.