Cyber Training Range Engineer

Overview

Employment in this role is conditional upon successful execution of the contract by the client.

The Work

The Cyber Training Range Engineer will develop, implement, and sustain robust, realistic, and scalable cyber training environments for the client. This critical role involves building virtualized environments that simulate real-world networks and threats, enabling cyber professionals to train effectively against evolving adversaries. This role will possess a strong technical background in cybersecurity, network engineering, and virtualization and a keen ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.

This position aligns with Cayuse’s core values of Innovation, Excellence, Collaboration, Adaptability, and Integrity by fostering technical solutions that meet customer needs, promoting teamwork, and prioritizing quality in deliverables.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform cyber training range engineering duties consistent with the Cyber Training Range Engineer labor category.
• Apply IAT Level 3 certification requirements to the engineering support role.
• Support cyber and/or information technology duties and experiences required to build, integrate, and maintain training range capabilities (as applicable).
• Comprehend the 39 IOS mission, the cyber training ranges and Weapon Systems associated with the training requirements.
• Augment and support mission support functions in the areas of course management support, faculty development, planning, project management, administrative support, facility management, cyber range systems, communications and information technology systems, audio visual (AV) systems in unclassified and classified environments.
• Purchase and install CTRE hardware and software at the client’s request. CTRE is essential to conduct psychomotor (hands-on) training for Cyber Weapon Systems (CWS) IQT, and work role training, which is focused on individual and not team or crew training environments.
• Ensure CTRE equipment meets the following system requirements:
  Risk Management Framework (RMF), Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs), and Approved Product List (APL) for unclassified and classified networks, a six-year lifecycle, or higher and takes advantage of available electrical service, and Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) space, without modifying the current building infrastructure.
• Maintain compatibility with current CTRE hardware and software, and the DAFNET while maintaining virtual machine compatibility with the AF Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) fielded CWS and/or Joint platforms and systems and the current curricula, training mission, and mission evaluation lessons.
• Allow and enhance the capability of the course developers and the instructors to provide courseware (cognitive and psychomotor or lecture and hands-on) that meets or exceeds the ACC Training Task List (TTL) or Joint requirements along with the ability to repair/replace components, same day, if required, to ensure continuity of training, while keeping associated costs and training lapse times to a minimum.
• Enable the ability to scale to meet increased tasking TPR at multiple locations and classifications without additional engineering or other building considerations; the system must simultaneously support at least three 30-student classrooms and at least 60 staff members (instruction and development) including but not limited to: at least 30K simultaneous virtual machines,
• Enhance the capability to provision and de-provision a full classroom of 30 students and four instructors, with a minimum of 150 virtual machines, each in an isolated training "sandbox" in commensurate with the Director of Operations approved class schedule as well as replicating data across the CTRE mesh network with no additional translation or reprogramming required.
• Enable the ability of current operators to dynamically assist, take-over, or restart any students training environment without disrupting the current classroom lesson for any other student(s), compatibility with the evolution and next generation CTRE mesh environment; and perform live back-up and restore from any node on the mesh network to…