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SAIC

Cybersecurity Instructor

Little Rock, AR · On-site

$46K - $61.90K/yr

Are you interested in working with Linux, PowerShell, SIEM, and IDS tools? Are you looking for ... Provide direct on-site instructor support to develop and teach cyber operations courses throughout ...

SAIC

Cybersecurity Instructor

Little Rock, AR

$46K - $61.90K/yr

Are you interested in working with Linux, PowerShell, SIEM, and IDS tools? Are you looking for ... Provide direct on-site instructor support to develop and teach cyber operations courses throughout ...

College of Western Idaho

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Boise, ID · On-site

CWI is seeking an engaging and student-focused Adjunct Instructor to teach Linux and related IT courses in classroom, online, and technology-enhanced learning environments. Instructors play a key ...

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Cybersecurity Instructor

Cybersecurity Instructor

Science Applications International Corporation

Little Rock, AR

$46K - $61.90K/yr

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Posted 14 days ago

Job description

SAIC is seeking a Cyber Instructors to provide support for cyber courses in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Our team is looking for someone interested in supporting cyber defense instruction. Are you interested in working with Linux, PowerShell, SIEM, and IDS tools? Are you looking for opportunities to work with various technologies such as hardware and cloud? Consider joining our amazing team at Little Rock Air Force Base. You will work with a team of talented and supportive professionals dedicated to teaching and enabling personnel defending our nation's critical systems.

These positions are contingent upon funding
Job Duties:

  • Provide direct on-site instructor support to develop and teach cyber operations courses throughout the year. 
  • Coach, teach, and assess students in compliance with Air Force curriculum while providing feedback and progress reports.
  • Make recommendations for updates and corrections to course material, software, and tools.
  • Collaborate with colleagues to develop new course material to include technical writing and virtual lab design.
  • Utilize a virtual cyber range during class instruction and communicate with range engineers as needed.
SAIC is a premier mission integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, intelligence, and civilian markets includes secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise IT, engineering services, and professional services. We integrate emerging technology, rapidly and securely, into mission critical operations that modernize and enable critical national imperatives.

We are approximately 23,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.3 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.

Required Education:

  • Bachelors and five (5) years or more experience; Masters and three (3) years or more experience; PhD and zero (0) years related experience; four (4) years of experience considered in lieu of degree.

Qualifications:

  • Ideal candidates will have intermediate to advanced experience with two or more of the technical skills listed below.
  • Linux command line.
  • Windows PowerShell - ability to understand and write scripts.
  • Network traffic analysis - protocol analysis.
  • Host based analysis.
  • Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA).
  • Industrial Control Systems / Operational Technology (ICS/OT).
  • Cyber Threat Intelligence.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Prior training delivery and/or instructional design experience.
  • SIEM applications.
  • Cyber threats and vectors.
  • Intrusion analysis and frameworks (Diamond Model, intrusion kill chains, MITRE ATT&CK, etc.).
  • Incident response.
  • Cloud/virtualization.
  • Front-end development.
  • Containerization.
  • Developing labs.
  • Risk management and communicating risk.
  • Mission decomposition.
  • Working with control systems and corresponding hardware & software.

Clearance:

  • Candidate must have an active Secret clearance with the ability to obtain a TS/SCI. 

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