Senior Azure Cybersecurity Content Engineer

TryHackMe Ltd; Remote; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing online cybersecurity training platform is seeking a Senior Azure Cybersecurity Content Engineer. This role involves leading the development of advanced content for online courses and mentorship responsibilities. Ideal candidates have extensive Azure cloud security expertise and experience in defensive security roles. We offer a remote work environment with flexible hours and a strong focus on personal development, including a substantial training budget and annual company retreats.

Benefits

Flexi Time

£2,500 training budget

Annual company retreat

Health insurance

Lunch covered during virtual lunches

Qualifications

• Proven track record of designing high-quality training content for technical audiences.
• Strong focus on Microsoft Azure security.
• Experience in defensive security roles within Azure-based or hybrid cloud organizations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of advanced defensive cybersecurity training material.
• Own and shape the Azure cybersecurity content roadmap.
• Collaborate closely with Content Engineering and Cloud teams.

Skills

Azure cloud security expertise

Hands-on blue team experience

Excellent written and verbal English communication skills

Deep hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure

Knowledge of SIEM, EDR, IDS/IPS

Education

5+ years of relevant cyber security industry experience

Tools

Microsoft Sentinel

Defender for Cloud

Job description

TryHackMe is the fastest-growing online cyber security training platform. Our mission is to make learning and teaching cyber security easier by providing gamified security exercises and challenges. Having only been around for handful of years, we've grown to more than 6+ million community members and our growth isn't slowing down! 🥷

The Role – Senior Azure Cybersecurity Content Engineer

We’re looking for a Senior Azure Cybersecurity Content Engineer to help us lead, research, plan, and create advanced content and virtual labs for our online courses.

The ideal candidate has deep Azure cloud security expertise, hands‑on blue team experience, and a ideally a proven track record of designing high-quality training content for technical audiences.

This is a senior individual contributor role with technical ownership, mentorship responsibilities, and influence over our Azure and cloud security content roadmap.

Technical Skills & Experience

To be considered for this opportunity, you must have 5+ years of relevant cyber security industry experience in roles such as Senior SOC Analyst (L3/L4), Security Engineer, Incident Responder, Threat Hunter, or Digital Forensics Investigator, with a strong focus on Microsoft Azure security.

Ideally, you have:

• Worked in defensive security roles within Azure-based or hybrid cloud organisations
• Designed or operated real-world Azure security controls, detections, and incident response workflows
• Experience translating complex security concepts into structured learning experiences

You should also demonstrate:

• Deep hands‑on experience with Microsoft Azure, including security architecture, identity, networking, monitoring, and incident response tooling.
• Expert‑level knowledge in core blue team areas: incident detection and response, threat intelligence, log analysis, security monitoring, and digital forensics.
• A strong conceptual and practical understanding of networking, computing, and operating systems as they relate to security.
• Familiarity with blue team tooling and platforms (e.g., SIEM, EDR, IDS/IPS, Microsoft Sentinel, Defender for Cloud, Entra ID) and methodologies (e.g., MITRE ATT&CK, threat modeling, log and malware analysis).
• Proven ability to research emerging threats, attacker techniques, and cloud security trends, and convert them into engaging, high-impact training content.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain complex technical topics to learners.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of advanced defensive cyber security training material, including hands‑on Azure labs, simulations, and realistic datasets.
• Own and shape the Azure cybersecurity content roadmap, ensuring technical accuracy, relevance, and progression across skill levels.
• Collaborate closely with the Content Engineering and Cloud teams to identify gaps, define standards, and improve overall content quality.
• Design, build, and maintain realistic Azure lab environments, including identity, logging, monitoring, and attack/defense scenarios.
• Mentor and support other Content Engineers, providing technical guidance, reviews, and best practices.
• Analyze real‑world industry trends, incidents, and attacker techniques and recreate them as teachable, hands‑on learning experiences.
• Strategically plan, review, and schedule content initiatives in collaboration with the Cloud Content Engineering team and stakeholders.

Preferred Skills (nice‑to‑have):

• Experience creating Capture The Flag (CTF) challenges or gamified security exercises.
• Programming/scripting experience in Python, Bash, PowerShell, or PHP.
• Experience leading, coaching, or mentoring other engineers or analysts.
• Relevant certifications such as AZ-500, SC-300, SC-200, SC-100, SC-401, or broader certifications like SAL1, CySA+, etc.

Benefits & Perks:

💸 Salary - We hire across 35+ countries. We determine salaries based on Geographic Location, Seniority, Interview Performance, and Market Rates using leading compensation benchmarking tools.

🚣 100% Remote - In a fully digital world, work from anywhere you want!

🕒 Flexi Time - Choose your own hours as long as you have at least 4 hours of overlap with the UK timezone (from 8am - 6pm)

💻 Tools - a dedicated work laptop + any accessories you need to do your best work.

👕 Swag Pack - start your TryHackMe journey with a branded swag bundle!

💪 Personal Development - £2,500 training budget to acquire certifications, and more.

⛱️ Company Retreat - an annual company retreat, fully paid for by us!

🍕Lunch on us - whether you're a pizza-lover, salad obsessed or a big sushi fan, TryHackMe will cover the cost of your lunch order during our recurring company virtual lunches.

🧡 Health Insurance - if you're in a country that doesn't have public health care.

🍼 Enhanced Maternity & Paternity- an enhanced package on top of statutory requirements.

💸 401k / Pension - TryHackMe makes it easy to save money for your retirement.

Our Hiring Process

• Stage 1: Short introduction call (30 mins)
• Stage 2: Technical Take Home Exercise
• Stage 3: Technical interview(one hour)
• Stage 4: Final call with a Co-Founder (30 mins)

At this time, we are unable to provide sponsorship.