Range Engineer, Senior

Booz Allen Hamilton•Usa, MD

About The Position

The Cyber Range Engineer is responsible for designing, building, operating, and sustaining cyber range environments that support training, exercises, and mission rehearsals for defensive and offensive cyber missions. This role directly supports the development of realistic, scalable, and secure virtual environments used to train cyber operators, test tools and tactics, and execute complex cyber exercise scenarios. The Cyber Range Engineer works closely with exercise planners, scenario developers, red and blue teams, and infrastructure engineers to ensure ranges accurately reflect real-world operational c ond itions and mission objectives. This position requires a strong combination of hands-on technical expertise, systems integration experience, and the ability to translate exercise requirements into functional cyber range architectures. The Cyber Range Engineer designs and engineers virtualized and containerized environments that replicate enterprise, cloud, and mission-focused networks for cyber training and exercise execution. The engineer builds, configures, and maintains cyber range infrastructure, including virtual machines, networks, enclaves, and supporting services, to enable full-spectrum training objectives. In this role, you’ll integrate tools, scripts, and platforms used by red, blue, and white teams, as well as support exercise execution by troubleshooting technical issues, restoring environments, and adjusting range configurations in real time. You’ll collaborate with scenario developers to implement scenario injects, adversary behaviors, and data flows that align with exercise objectives. You’ll also be responsible for documenting range architectures, configurations, and standard operating procedures, and supporting continuous improvement of range capabilities, automation, and scalability. Join us. The world can’t wait.

Requirements

5+ years of experience supporting cyber operations, cyber training environments, or enterprise IT infrastructure, including in virtualized or lab-based environments
Experience building, configuring, and maintaining Linux and Windows systems in a cyber range, lab, or training environment
Experience with Active Directory basics such as domains, t rus ts, OUs, GPOs, DNS, and permissions, SIEMs such as Security Onion, logging and monitoring solutions, and proper sensor placement, and virtualization technologies such as VMware, KVM, or Hyper-V
Experience supporting cyber exercises, cyber training events, or operational test environments, including execution-phase troubleshooting and environment restoration
Experience with scripting or automation tools such as Bash, PowerShell, Python, or Ansible, to support range deployment and sustainment
Knowledge of virtual networking concepts, including VLANs, routing, firewalls, and network segmentation
Ability to think critically, analyze complex technical issues, and troubleshoot problems in time-sensitive, execution-focused environments
Ability to collaborate effectively with exercise planners, scenario developers, red or blue teams, and infrastructure engineers, and document range architectures, configurations, and standard operating procedures
Active TS/SCI clearance; willingness to take a polygraph exam
Bachelor’s degree

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting cyber ranges or exercises for the DoD, USCYBERCOM, or Joint organizations
Experience with container technologies, cloud-based range environments, or cyber range platforms
Experience integrating adversary emulation or penetration testing tools
Possession of strong written and verbal communication skills
TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph
Networking Certification such as Network+ or CCNA Certification

Responsibilities

designing, building, operating, and sustaining cyber range environments
developing realistic, scalable, and secure virtual environments
building, configuring, and maintaining cyber range infrastructure
integrating tools, scripts, and platforms used by red, blue, and white teams
supporting exercise execution by troubleshooting technical issues, restoring environments, and adjusting range configurations in real time
collaborating with scenario developers to implement scenario injects, adversary behaviors, and data flows that align with exercise objectives
documenting range architectures, configurations, and standard operating procedures
supporting continuous improvement of range capabilities, automation, and scalability