Virtual Infrastructure Engineer – Advanced Cyber Training Environments
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Job Location:
Arlington, TX - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
17 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
SITE 525 is at the forefront of delivering cutting-edge training solutions for information maneuver specialists. Our mission is to empower the warfighter with realistic high-fidelity training environments that simulate the challenges of modern information warfare.
SITE 525 isseeking a highly skilled CyberVirtualization Engineer to support the development and sustainment of advanced cyber training environments. This role involves hands-on engineering of secure scalable and AI-enabled virtual ranges that emulate realistic adversarial network conditions across IT and OT domains. These environments are used for cyber mission rehearsals red/blue/gray team operations and full-spectrum cybersecurity exercises. Must be willing to travel up to 25%.Responsible for designing deploying and maintaining advanced virtualized training environments that replicate realistic large-scale and adversarial network conditions. This position focuses on engineering and integrating dynamic hypervisor-driven platforms and virtualization technologies to support cyber mission rehearsals red/blue/gray team operations and full-spectrum training exercises.
Key Responsibilities:
SITE 525 isseeking a highly skilled CyberVirtualization Engineer to support the development and sustainment of advanced cyber training environments. This role involves hands-on engineering of secure scalable and AI-enabled virtual ranges that emulate realistic adversarial network conditions across IT and OT domains. These environments are used for cyber mission rehearsals red/blue/gray team operations and full-spectrum cybersecurity exercises. Must be willing to travel up to 25%.Responsible for designing deploying and maintaining advanced virtualized training environments that replicate realistic large-scale and adversarial network conditions. This position focuses on engineering and integrating dynamic hypervisor-driven platforms and virtualization technologies to support cyber mission rehearsals red/blue/gray team operations and full-spectrum training exercises.
Key Responsibilities:
- Engineer and implement scalable virtualized environments leveraging hypervisors (KVM VMware Hyper-V) virtual machines containers and software-defined networking across hybrid edge and cloud infrastructures.
- Implement and manage virtualization stacks including private cloud platforms hypervisor clusters and orchestration frameworks for large-scale multi-tenant environments.
- Develop automation and orchestration tooling for provisioning snapshotting and lifecycle management of virtualized assets using Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD pipelines.
- Integrate advanced traffic simulation capabilities (burst steady-state geo-distributed AI/ML-driven) to emulate realistic user and system behaviors within virtual ranges.
- Build and maintain frameworks and tooling for user and NPC emulation across virtualized environments to enhance operational realism including threat emulation and defensive toolsets for network monitoring incident detection and response.
- Implement observability pipelines for performance monitoring traffic replay autoscaling validation and centralized logging in production-grade virtual infrastructures.
- Administer and secure hypervisor platforms and virtual networking components ensuring isolation resiliency and compliance for mission-critical environments.
- Manage network and server infrastructure including Active Directory identity management systems and virtualized security controls.
- Integrate third-party virtualization and orchestration tools to improve fidelity and scalability of training environments.
- Support exercise operations including setup execution troubleshooting and real-time scenario management for White Cell operations.
- Collaborate with technical working groups and stakeholders to validate and enhance virtualization strategies for cyber training environments.
- Apply knowledge of OT systems (SCADA ICS PLCs IoT/IIoT) within virtualized contexts for realistic emulation.
- Virtualization & Hypervisors: VMware ESXi/vSphere KVM/QEMU Microsoft Hyper-V Proxmox OpenStack
- Virtual Infrastructure Management: VM lifecycle management snapshotting cloning orchestration frameworks
- Cloud & Containerization: Private cloud platforms AWS Azure Kubernetes (K8s) Docker Podman hybrid and edge deployments
- Networking & SDN: Virtual switches (vSwitch vDS) software-defined networking network segmentation VPNs dynamic Network-as-Code tools
- Automation & IaC: Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform Ansible Packer Helm Nomad) CI/CD integration for infrastructure
- Performance & Observability: Metrics collection centralized logging traffic replay load simulation autoscaling validation
- Security in Virtualized Environments: Identity management Active Directory (GPOs tiered admin scripts) secure isolation of virtual ranges
- Cyber Range Engineering: Virtualized cyber training environments adversarial network simulation AI/ML-driven traffic emulation
- Traffic Simulation & User Emulation: Lariat CMU GHOSTS MITRE Caldera Red Canary Atomic Red Team TRex BreakingPoint Locust k6 custom Python/TypeScript scripts AI-enabled agents
- Compliance & Assurance: NIST 800-series ISO 27001 FedRAMP CUI-compliant controls
- Monitoring & Control Interfaces: Custom dashboards for exercise operations centralized scenario orchestration
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Cybersecurity Computer Engineering or related field.
- 5 years of experience in cyber engineering network operations or cyber range development.
- Top Secret security clearance.
- Proficiency in virtualization containerization and cloud technologies.
- Experience with offensive and defensive cybersecurity tools and frameworks.
- Familiarity with AI/ML integration in cyber environments.
- Strong scripting and automation skills (e.g. Python Bash PowerShell).
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. Terraform Ansible).
- Knowledge of OT systems and protocols.
- Security certifications (e.g. CISSP CEH OSCP) are a plus.
Employee may be required to occasionally lift and/or move moderate amounts of weight typically less than 20 pounds but may vary depending on the position. Regular and predictable attendance is essential.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin sexual orientation gender identity disability or protected veteran status and any other characteristic protected by federal state and local law.
If you are unable to apply through the portal and need to speak to someone about necessary accommodations to apply please email and we will follow up with you. Do not submit resumes and applications through this email.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Jenkins
- Ruby
- Python
- Active Directory
- Cloud
- PowerShell
- Windows
- AWS
- Linux
- SAN
- Java
- Troubleshoot
- Backup
- Puppet
- hardware
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