Sr. FORGE Course Instructor

We train like we fight!  If you want to be part of a dynamic Instructor Team delivering engaging and cutting-edge training solutions, this is the place for you!  We are currently seeking Course Support in Hanover, Maryland. Instructors will be part of a collaborative multidisciplinary Team delivering highly sophisticated, technical, hands-on training solutions to meet the mission and time-critical needs of our customers.   

Responsibilities: 
Instructors act both as subject matter experts, through lecture and lab work, as well as coaches for students – working not only to impart the expertise require to meet certification standard for their career path, but also how to be successful in mission when it counts.  In addition, 

• The instructors work with the students to prepare them to meet the mission-critical needs of our customers.
• The instructors monitor student performance on practical exercises and provide feedback to students.  
• Virtualization technology is employed heavily to simulate real-world scenarios that create an immersive cyber-environment for students. 
• The instructors work with a Team of multi-disciplinary professionals to make recommendations for updates to course content, training materials, and documentation.  
• Research, document, and test security solutions for emerging technologies, security methodologies, and CNE concepts. 
• Support the development of instruction of comprehensive, tactically relevant operational training, including the design, development, and implementation of training exercises and scenarios required to prepare students for operations. 
• Knowledge of the course map(s) for the course(s) that the personnel are supporting along with ability to update the course maps as the courses evolve. 
• Ability to create and update detailed schedule(s) for the course(s) that the personnel are supporting. 

Clearance Required: 

• Active TS/SCI with Poly

Minimum Education: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical engineering, Math, Integrated systems & design, Education, Information systems, Cyber engineering, or related field is desired, but not required. Additional years of experience can be substituted for a Bachelor’s degree.

Minimum Years of Experience:

• Minimum five (5) years of experience in the development, testing, deployment, operations, training, or maintenance of electrical/electronic/software systems.  An additional three (3) years of experience may be substituted for a Bachelor’s degree for a total of eight (8) years of experience. 

The position requires fully cleared individuals with an extensive range of experience, including the following:

• Demonstrate knowledge of creating and configuring virtual hosts and networks using VMware in support of developing real-world scenarios. 
• Demonstrate knowledge of scenario development and Interactive Virtual learning module creation using tools such as VMWare VSphere, VMWare VCenter, Moodle Captivate, Camtasia, and Articulate. 
• Demonstrate knowledge of commonly used software programming languages (preferred Python, Ruby, and shell scripting). 
• Experience engineering design, development, deployment, operations, training or maintenance related to Windows and Unix variants.  
• Must have administration knowledge of setting up and maintaining commons Unix, Unix Variant, and Windows Servers.  
• The ability to perform trend analysis of student performances and identify material in the course that should be improved. 
• Ability to recommend and implement future course materials to keep courses current, to address the need to teach/test concepts in addition to specific tool usage, and to improve the studen