Offensive Security Training Architect

Fortra; United States; On-site; USD 115,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) enrollment

HSA and FSA plans

Flexible PTO

Tuition reimbursement

ID Theft Protection Program

Life at Fortra

Job summary

Fortra is seeking an Offensive Security Training Content Developer to build and evolve our offensive security training portfolio. This hands-on role blends offensive security expertise, lab development, and clear content creation to educate students and practitioners.

You will maintain Red Team Operations and Cobalt Strike training, design new courses and labs, develop assessments, and collaborate with researchers, engineers, and product teams to deliver practical, safe, and impactful training

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in offensive security, including red teaming, penetration testing, or security research.
• Understanding of red-team operations and adversary-simulation lifecycle across tactics like initial access, lateral movement, and post-exploitation.
• Practical experience with Cobalt Strike or comparable tooling; advanced tradecraft is a Plus.
• Strong working knowledge of Windows environments, Active Directory, and related telemetry.
• Ability to build and maintain realistic cybersecurity lab environments and automation pipelines.
• Experience scripting or programming (PowerShell, Python, C#, or C) for offensive security tasks.
• Ability to research topics, validate in labs, and turn findings into repeatable training content.
• Excellent technical writing and instructional design skills for diverse learners.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and continuously improve Red Team Operations, Cobalt Strike, and related offensive security training content.
• Design and develop new courses, modules, hands-on exercises, assessments, and learning paths.
• Research modern adversary tactics, translating them into safe, realistic training scenarios.
• Create, document, test, and maintain practical lab environments – including supporting infrastructure, scripts, configurations, and resources – to ensure exercises are accurate, reproducible, reliable, and achieve learning outcomes.
• Write clear, structured technical learning materials, including lessons, walkthroughs, lab guides, reference documentation, quizzes, and exercises for varied experience levels.
• Collaborate with Zero-Point Security experts, Cobalt Strike engineers, and product teams to turn research into training.
• Gather and incorporate feedback from students and stakeholders to improve course quality.
• Help shape the training roadmap by identifying skills gaps and opportunities for new courses.
• Establish consistent standards for technical accuracy, lab design, terminology, and course structure.
• Produce demonstrations, videos, webinars, workshops, or blog posts when appropriate.
• Ensure all training involving offensive security capabilities is designed and presented responsibly.

Skills

Offensive security

Red teaming

Technical writing

Instructional design

Lab troubleshooting

Scripting & automation

Tools

Cobalt Strike

PowerShell

Python

C#

Windows & AD tooling

Job description

Fortra is seeking an Offensive Security Training Content Developer to build and evolve our offensive security training portfolio. This hands-on role blends offensive security expertise, lab development, and clear content creation to educate students and practitioners.

You will maintain Red Team Operations and Cobalt Strike training, design new courses and labs, develop assessments, and collaborate with researchers, engineers, and product teams to deliver practical, safe, and impactful training