Staff Engineer: Cyber Range & Automation Leader

SimSpace

United States

On-site

USD 185,000 - 260,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) match

Equity stock options

Flexible time off

Peloton Wellness program

Job summary

SimSpace in the United States is seeking a Staff Engineer to provide technical leadership for the Range Against the Machine team. The role spans range architecture, networking, operating systems, virtualization, cybersecurity, automation, and representative enterprise and industrial environments.

You will solve complex problems, mentor engineers, and drive architecture, standards, and automated validation. The team builds reusable cyber ranges, Ansible-based automation, and image pipelines used

Qualifications

6-8 years of experience; a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science is preferred, but an equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered.
Experience designing, building, automating, and supporting complex infrastructure or cybersecurity environments at a scope consistent with Staff-level engineering.
Proficiency with Git and evidence of improving automated validation, testing, security, versioning, and release practices for infrastructure code, configuration, or virtual-machine images.

Responsibilities

Set technical direction for reusable cyber ranges and make explicit trade-offs among realism, security, reliability, scalability, usability, performance, maintainability, customer outcomes, and near-term delivery.
Improve Ansible and Packer architecture, standards, and automation so configurations and images are modular, idempotent, testable, versioned, secure, dependency-aware, safe in their handling of secrets and errors, repeatable, and resistant to drift.
Design and troubleshoot complex virtual networks, VMware-based infrastructure, Windows Server and Active Directory, Linux systems, identity services, security tooling, and relevant ICS/OT environments.
Diagnose failures across networks, operating systems, virtualization, images, blueprints, automation, platform services, and security products using packet-level and system-level evidence.
Identify gaps between range requirements and platform capabilities, develop bounded interim solutions, and partner with Product, Platform Engineering, Security, and other Staff and Principal Engineers on sustainable long-term outcomes and broader platform strategy.
Strengthen repository, review, automated build and validation, release, documentation, runbook, and support-handoff practices across team-owned work.
Lead cross-team technical decisions, create standards and automation that can benefit teams beyond RATM, communicate dependencies and risks early, mentor engineers, delegate meaningful ownership, and reduce single-person dependencies.