Part Time Fixed Term Technical Coach, Cybersecurity

As a Cybersecurity Technical Coach you will act as a supporting instructor while students are working through the curriculum of our cybersecurity program for one of our enterprise clients. Cybersecurity Technical Coaches work in close collaboration with instructors to determine how to maximize their time and support for students in our program. Technical Coaches may support students through one on one check-ins, helping students uncover the solutions to technical labs and assignments by guiding them through a process of directed inquiries and incremental hints, and leveraging other methods of academic support and intervention in conjunction with their team. 

In this role, your responsibilities will include guiding students through technical challenges while they are working through Flatiron School’s cybersecurity curriculum, helping them to deepen their understanding of cybersecurity concepts, and providing feedback to help evaluate student knowledge of a specific content area. Successful Cybersecurity Technical Coaches can inspire and energize students to help them build their confidence as they work through difficult challenges in the Flatiron School curriculum. This role is a fixed-term instructional role requiring individuals to teach Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday from 7:30pm-10:30pm EST. The fixed-term is scheduled to begin on December 11th, 2023 and to end on December 5th, 2024.

Responsibilities:

• Guide students through labs efficiently, effectively, and with kindness when they are stuck.
• Conduct project review assessments by objectively evaluating student knowledge against the Flatiron School standards in each course and phase of the curriculum.
• Work hand in hand with the instructional team on monitoring student aptitude and progress; collaborate on remediation plans and support plans as necessary.
• Participate in pilots aimed at bettering our student experience and outcomes.
• Integrate feedback given by students, colleagues, and managers to continually improve.
• Support students on projects and assessments, helping to identify their strengths and weaknesses.
• Embrace change and thrive in ambiguity by helping students and staff with real-time efforts, like being part of new experiments and initiatives, troubleshooting features that are shared to students, and escalating issues that you need help within a timely manner.
• Strive to ask questions and provide solutions rather than simply pointing out problems.
• Collaborate with teammates to address outstanding student issues.
• Strong communication skills, and great judgment about what communications to use in a particular situation or on a particular medium.
• Service orientation: You are delighted to help people succeed, whether that is your colleagues at Flatiron School, or the students you are teaching.
• The ability to work cross-functionally with a variety of colleagues, from curriculum developers to instructors to the Technical Faculty Manager.

Qualifications:

• Knowledge and experience/familiarity in any number of the following:
• Network security, systems security, logs and detection administration, cyber threat intelligence processes, cryptography, application security, python coding, penetration testing, and GRC.
• Operating Systems: Linux, Windows, Mac OS and their performance monitoring tools
• Tools: Wireshark, Command Line Network Tools (SSH, nmap, netstat, etc.), Vulnerability
• Applied Knowledge in GRC and RMF
• Physical and Virtual Networking
• Governance, Compliance, Risk Management Framework, Incident Response Planning
• SIEM, System/Application Monitoring, or Performance Tools, predominantly SPLUNK
• Applied cryptography and cryptographic protocols
• Application development using Python, additional languages a plus
• Fundamentals of Penetration Testing

Schedule:

This is a remote role. This role is a fixed-term instructional role requiring individuals to teach Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday from 7:30pm-10:30pm EST. The fixed-term is scheduled to begin December 11th, 2023 and end on December 5th, 2024. Business casual attire required. 

80 hours of prep work expected, can happen during regular business hours or after regular business hours. Prep work will be between December 11th, 2023 and January 7th, 2024.

Off weeks include: April 21st-25th, April 28th-May 2nd, June 9th-13th, October 13th-17th, and October 20th-24th.

There will be eight weeks where there will be an alternative weekly schedules:

• January 14th-18th: Class Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday                   
• February 18th-22nd: Class Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday
• March 24th-28th:Class Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
• May 26t