Cyber Security Engineer

Job Description: Cybersecurity Engineer (Cyber Range Engineer)

Location:
Hyderabad

Job Type:
Full-Time

Industry: Government, Defense, Critical Infrastructure

Are you ready to take on challenging, real-world cybersecurity scenarios that impact governments, defense, and critical infrastructure sectors? We seek a Cyber Range Scenario Developer with a strong Blue/Red Team background and Purple Team mindset to join our dynamic team.

This is an exciting opportunity to design and deliver cutting-edge Cyberrange exercises in collaboration with multiple organizations. You'll lead scenario development, simulate real-life incidents, and help organizations improve their threat detection and response capabilities. You will work closely with clients, internal stakeholders, and the threat emulation team, and you will bring your own ideas on how to design realistic high-fidelity emulations challenging a global clientele.

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Cyber Range Engineer / Cybersecurity Scenario Developer to design, build, and maintain realistic, simulated environments for cybersecurity training, testing, and exercises. This role involves creating hands-on CTF challenges, threat simulations, and attack-defense scenarios that replicate real-world networks, systems, and applications for government and enterprise clients.

You will combine expertise in offensive and defensive cybersecurity, threat intelligence, and infrastructure engineering to deliver immersive learning experiences for red and blue teams.

What You Will Do:

• Design, develop, and execute realistic cyber range scenarios focused on Blue Team defense strategies.
• Integrate Red Team capabilities to build comprehensive Purple Team scenarios that challenge participants to bridge offence and defense.
• Contribute and participate in end-to-end delivery of cyber exercises, from conceptualization to execution and post-event reporting.
• Collaborate with multinational teams, clients, and stakeholders in government, defense, and critical infrastructure sectors.
• Leverage your incident response experience to create lifelike scenarios that synthesize current and emerging threats.
• Participate in scenario reviews, Training and Drill Exercise, evaluations, and after-action reporting to ensure continuous improvement.

What You Bring:

• Strong understanding of Red Team/Offensive Security methodologies (Purple Team approach).
• Experience in large-scale cyber capacity-building projects or technical and tabletop hybrid exercises.
• Familiarity with industry-standard frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK, NIST, and similar.
• Proficiency with tools like SIEMs, EDR solutions, penetration testing frameworks, and cyber range platforms.
• Strong organizational and leadership skills to coordinate exercise lifecycles and technical teams.
• Excellent communication skills for debriefings, stakeholder reporting, and after-action reviews.

Key Responsibilities

• Scenario Development & CTF Creation
• Design and deploy realistic cybersecurity scenarios and Capture-the-Flag (CTF) challenges based on latest
  attack vectors, APT tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs)
  .
• Create training environments for
  red team vs blue team exercises
  .

• Develop exploit simulations, phishing campaigns, malware behavior sandboxes, and threat emulations.

• Cyber Threat Research & Simulation

• Research and analyze the latest vulnerabilities (CVEs), exploits, and threat actor campaigns.
• Translate real-world cyber incidents into training modules for SOC, incident response, and threat hunting teams.

• Build and test environments to replicate adversary tradecraft and attack chains (MITRE ATT&CK-based)

• Infrastructure & Security Lab Setup

• Build and manage virtualized/cloud-based infrastructures to simulate enterprise IT and OT environments.
• Configure and troubleshoot Linux/Windows servers, firewalls, and networking architectures for lab environments.

• Implement containerized (Docker/K8s) and virtualized (VMware, Proxmox, AWS/Azure/GCP) cyber range setups.

• Security Assessment & Testing

• Contribute expertise in
  VAPT, penetration testing, infrastructure security testing, and red teaming exercises
  .

• Provide insights for blue team exercises including
  SOC monitoring, log analysis, and threat hunting
  .

• Support malware analysis, sandbox testing, and adversary emulation.

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong understanding of
  networking, system administration, and security architectures
  .
• Hands-on experience with
  Linux administration, troubleshooting, and shell scripting
  .
• Knowledge in at least one cybersecurity domain:
  VAPT, Red Teaming, SOC operations, Threat Intelligence, or Threat Hunting
  .
• Familiarity with
  CVE analysis, exploit development, and malware behavior testing
  .
• Experience in
  attack simulation, phishing campaigns, and adversary emulation frameworks
  (e.g., CALDERA, Atomic Red Team, Metasploit, Cobalt Strike, etc.).
• Proficiency in
  virtualization and cloud platforms
  (VMware, VirtualBox, AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.).
• Strong research skills with the ability to
  translate emerging threats into realistic scenarios
  .
• Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK, Cyber Kill Chain, and threat modeling methodologies.
• Strong communication & presentation skills.
  Able to explain scenarios, guide training exercises, and deliver content effectively to various departments and teams.

Nice to Have

• Certifications like
  OSCP, CEH, eWPTX,
  CompTIA+
• Experience with
  blue team tools
  (SIEM, EDR, IDS/IPS, Threat Intel Platforms).
• Scripting/programming skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell, Go, etc.).
• Experience in
  cyber range platforms, war gaming, Hack the Box , Try Hack Me or cybersecurity training labs
  .

What we're offering?

• Opportunity to
  shape the next generation cyber training platform
  used by government and enterprise clients.
• Work on
  real-world offensive and defensive security challenges
  .
• Ownership of your scenarios — build, break, teach, repeat.
• Freedom to research and prototype new attack methods (within safety rules).
• A small, sharp team that values craft, experimentation, and blunt feedback.
• Continuous learning in an environment that values innovation, research, and knowledge sharing.