Remote Cyber Range Content Engineer

Escal Institute of Advanced Technologies, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Medical, dental & vision plans

Paid time off

Job summary

SANS Institute is seeking a Cyber Range Content Engineer to develop, adapt, test, and deploy cybersecurity challenges, tooling, and frameworks across the Cyber Simulations & Ranges portfolio. The role extends from prototype to production with strong emphasis on quality, testing, and documentation.

The ideal candidate combines cybersecurity knowledge with software development and automation skills and enjoys hands-on technical work within a largely remote, globally distributed team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Professional experience in cybersecurity, software development, cyber range development or related technical field.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity concepts, tools, and attack/defense techniques.
• Experience developing or adapting hands-on cybersecurity challenges, labs, exercises, or similar content.
• Proficiency with scripting or programming languages such as Python, Bash, PowerShell.

Responsibilities

• Develop, adapt, test, and publish hands-on cybersecurity content across the Cyber Simulations & Ranges portfolio (BootUp CTF, ASAP).
• Reconfigure and migrate content to current delivery platforms; re-platform legacy content.
• Validate content for functionality, solvability, difficulty progression, and answer-key accuracy.
• Maintain and refresh content to reflect current cybersecurity threats, tools, and practices.
• Support alignment of content to workforce development frameworks (NICE, NIST, DCWF).
• Deploy frameworks across games/products; ensure documentation and repeatability.

Skills

Strong cybersecurity knowledge

Software development

Automation

Python/Bash/PowerShell scripting

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or related field

Tools

Git, CI/CD basics

Containerization & virtualization

Job description

SANS Institute is seeking a Cyber Range Content Engineer to develop, adapt, test, and deploy cybersecurity challenges, tooling, and frameworks across the Cyber Simulations & Ranges portfolio. The role extends from prototype to production with strong emphasis on quality, testing, and documentation.

The ideal candidate combines cybersecurity knowledge with software development and automation skills and enjoys hands-on technical work within a largely remote, globally distributed team.