Cyber Range Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton•Suffolk, VA

About The Position

As a cyber warfare engineer, you know how critical it is to stay ahead of evolving threats by identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities before adversaries can. At Booz Allen, you'll bring that expertise to a mission-focused team where you'll incorporate the latest cyber methodologies and threat landscape into cyber exercise scenario and curriculum development. As a Cyber Range Engineer, you’ll translate the client’s emerging cyberspace training requirements into operationally relevant, integrated virtual and physical cyberspace environments that support training, exercises, and mission rehearsals for defensive and offensive cyber missions. In this role, you’ll help develop engaging, hands-on exercise scenarios, design realistic range environments, and integrate tools, scripts, and platforms used by red, blue, and white teams to align with exercise objectives. The cyber range engineer also directly supports exercise execution by troubleshooting technical issues, restoring environments, and adjusting range configurations in real time and maintains cyber range virtualization infrastructure, networks, integrated hardware platform, and supporting services. This position requires a combination of hands-on technical expertise, systems integration experience, advanced advising skills, and full industry knowledge to translate exercise requirements into immersive, functional cyber range architectures. This is your opportunity to help advance national security through cutting-edge cyber capabilities. Join us. The world can't wait.

Requirements

3 + years of experience supporting cyber exercises, cyber training events, or operational test environments
3+ years of experience with penetration or red team testing, vulnerability analysis, and incident response
Experience working with enterprise virtualization platforms, including VMware ESXi and Proxmox
Experience managing containerized application environments, including deploying, managing, and troubleshooting Docker containers
Experience with systems administration across both Linux and Windows environments, including configuration and management of Active Directory, Domain Controllers, Exchange services, and DNS
Knowledge of the US Special Operations Command enterprise and Special Operations Forces mission sets, capabilities and disciplines
Knowledge of virtual networking concepts, including VLANs, routing, firewalls, and network segmentation
Ability to travel up to 25% of the time to CONUS and OCONUS locations
TS/SCI clearance
HS diploma or GED

Nice To Haves

Experience developing, modifying, and maintaining Infrastructure‑as‑Code solutions using tools such as Ansible and Terraform
Experience with OT, ICS, telecommunications, and other cyber physical systems, architectures, and protocols
Experience with intelligence support to cyber operations, including all-source processes, products
Knowledge of Department of War (DoW) cyberspace operations, including mission objectives, operational frameworks, and applicable defense‑sector cybersecurity practices
Knowledge of military assessments, training evaluations, and after-action reviews (AARs)
Bachelor's degree
Cyber Operations or Penetration Testing Certification, such as CEH, GPEN, GPXN, PenTest+, or OSCP Certification

Responsibilities

Translate the client’s emerging cyberspace training requirements into operationally relevant, integrated virtual and physical cyberspace environments that support training, exercises, and mission rehearsals for defensive and offensive cyber missions.
Develop engaging, hands-on exercise scenarios.
Design realistic range environments.
Integrate tools, scripts, and platforms used by red, blue, and white teams to align with exercise objectives.
Directly support exercise execution by troubleshooting technical issues, restoring environments, and adjusting range configurations in real time.
Maintain cyber range virtualization infrastructure, networks, integrated hardware platform, and supporting services.