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Defensive Content Engineer
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Let's redefine the standards of cybersecurity expertise by bringing together community and business! (Find out more insights about Hack The Box culture on our career site).
About Hack The Box
Hack The Box is a massive hacking playground, and infosec community of over 1.0m platform members who learn, hack, play, exchange ideas and methodologies. We are an online cybersecurity training platform that allows individuals, businesses, universities, and all kinds of organizations all around the world to level up their offensive and defensive security skills through a fully gamified and engaging learning environment.
Exciting News: In Jan 2023 we secured $55 Million in Series B Funding 🚀 The new investment will accelerate Hack The Box’s growth trajectory with a focus on further building out its category-defining “gamer-first” solutions offering. Hack The Box will also enhance its go-to-market function, doubling down on the company’s ongoing international expansion with strong commercial traction in the US, Europe, and APAC.
About the Role
While we are an established playground for red teamers, we aspire to become a place for all cybersecurity professionals. For this reason, we will be growing our Defensive Content team. If you are reading this, most likely, you are a cybersecurity professional, so you are aware of the great shortage of skills and people in the cyberspace, which impacts the ability of organizations to protect themselves. This is the problem you’ll be solving, by creating engaging labs, if you decide to join our team.
As a Defensive Content Engineer, you’ll focus on building & testing content that aims at upskilling our community of individual players and businesses! The role will encompass testing, development, review and ongoing maintenance of our Defensive challenges and CTF offerings. You will contribute to our growing Content team, and report to the Defensive Content Lead, working in a highly collaborative environment.
Responsibilities:
- Testing and maintaining machines, labs, and challenges.
- Assist in the development of new content.
- Research to remain on top of current vulnerabilities, exploits, tools, tactics, and procedures relevant to the target audience
- Research to remain on top of defensive techniques
Requirements
- Experience in a Defensive security operations environment
- Familiarity with Defensive security tooling (SIEM, EDR, Volatility, Autopsy, etc)
- System administration experience (Windows, Linux, etc.)
- Strong grasp of at least one scripting language (Python, PowerShell, Bash)
- Highly organised, motivated, with a passion for information security
- Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to learn new skills
- An understanding of process documentation
- Proficient in the English language (speaking, reading, writing)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
Nice to have:
- Experience in web application and/or network penetration testing
- Prior creation of blue team gamified challenges
- Familiarity with virtualization technologies (VMware Workstation, ESXi, vCenter)
- Familiarity with public/private cloud technologies (GCP, Azure, AWS)
- Familiarity with micro-services & containerisation technologies
- Familiarity with Active Directory deployment and configuration
Benefits
Why do you want to work at Hack The Box?
- You’ll have the chance to shape the industry of cybersecurity training
- You’ll be able to grow as we grow and solve challenging problems working with people all over the world
- You’ll definitely enjoy 🥳 working with us
- We welcome everyone at Hack The Box, no matter where they come from
We have also other benefits that will keep you happy
- 25 days of annual PTO
- Dedicated budget for training and professional development
- Company-supplied state-of-the-art equipment
- Full access to the Hack The Box lab offerings
- Flexibility in working hours
- Other benefits may be included depending on your location
Hack The Box
DATE POSTED
Jan 26, 2023
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