Junior Cyber Security Engineer - Blue Team (CyberMillion) Bristol, England
Job description
CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS - 20th October
Join a progressive, open and productive workplace, where different opinions and beliefs are valued.
Help prepare businesses to counter the latest threats by helping their people to develop powerful, practical secure applications.
About Immersive Labs
Immersive Labs is the leader in people-centric cyber resilience. We help organizations continuously assess, build, and prove their cyber workforce resilience for teams across the entire organization, from front-line cybersecurity and development teams to Board-level executives. We provide realistic simulations and hands-on cybersecurity labs to evaluate individual and team capabilities and decision-making against the latest threats.
https://www.immersivelabs.com/why-immersive-labs
Where we are now
Immersive Labs was founded in 2017, from a cargo container in Bristol, UK we’ve grown to over 300 employees globally, announced funding of more than £150 million and been voted a Best place to work for the last 3 years running! We are trusted by the world’s largest organizations including KPMG, Sophos and the NHS to measure, map to risk, and optimize the human cyber abilities of their entire workforce.
https://careers.immersivelabs.com/our-story/
We encourage people of all different backgrounds and identities to apply. We are committed to maintaining an inclusive, supportive place for you to be you and do your very best work.
Junior Content Engineer - Defensive Security
Immersive Labs have recently launched Cyber Million - an initiative to enable people from all backgrounds and skillsets to utilise their transferable skills to secure their first role in cyber security.
We have therefore created an opportunity within our Cyber Content team for a Junior Content Engineer to join our growing product team via the Cyber Million programme.
If successful, you will write content for labs on our game-changing platform; these will focus on IT/Computing and Defensive Cyber.
This is an exciting opportunity to start your career in cyber security. You will be provided with supportive mentoring throughout this role by our experienced and dedicated content engineers and the wider Immersive Labs team.
If you'd like to apply for this role please register for Cyber Million using the link below and complete the Defensive CyberSecurity Pathway. If you're completely new to cybersecurity you may wish to complete the optional Fundamentals Pathway first, as this will help you with the basics first.
https://www.immersivelabs.com/cybermillion/
Your main responsibilities:
Work with the technical teams to learn how to create labs and content.
Work with the broader content team to test and validate lab content based on user feedback.
Researching cybersecurity, technology and technical concepts to understand the learnings and translate them to a non-technical audience.
Collaborating on exercises & content creation based on research
Support various events such as Capture the Flag
Produce multi-format content utilising various teaching methods; written, exercises, questions and gamification
You don’t have to match all the listed requirements exactly to be considered for this role but you should apply if you have:
Completion of the Defensive Security Operations career path in Cyber Million - this will give you knowledge of core Defensive Security concepts such as Incident Response, digital forensics, and vulnerability management.
Clear, accurate and articulate English writing skills
Desire to learn and develop your skills
Be able to write technical content in simple, non-technical language
Ability to work well as part of a team and based either in Bristol or within a commutable distance to be in the office 2-3 times a week
Immersive Labs’ growth has been fuelled by our values that underpin everything we do, here's how they relate to this role:
Driven - We are innovators and market-creators, constantly moving forward to achieve results in support of our mission.
Inclusive - We are passionate about creating an environment of inclusion and respect for our employees, customers and partners, everyone has opportunities to thrive.
Customer Obsessed - We seek to develop deep relationships with our customers to help them achieve their business outcomes.
One Team - We are a talented global team working together to achieve our vision.
If you would like to read more about what you can expect from our recruitment process, you can visit our dedicated interview process page.
As well as an inclusive, supportive place for you to be you. We offer an extensive range of benefits so you can do your very best work:
Time off, flexible and remote working so you can work when is best for you, includes 25 days annual leave + 2 volunteering days and birthday half day
Look after your family and yourself with enhanced parental leave, mindfulness groups, critical illness cover, pension, health plan and more
Career and learning development through the platform and our ‘Learn Anything’ fund
Recognition & Rewards for doing great work and living our values and behaviours
Informal or formal flexible working options, e.g. flexible start and finish times, reduced hours, job share, remote working
We’re a sociable, tight-knit team with monthly socials, sports clubs and quarterly parties. Our socials have included everything from pottery painting and paper mask making, to movie nights and escape rooms
When you do visit the UK hub getting there is easy: we’re based in the centre of Bristol, just a 10 minute walk from the train station. We also offer railcard loan and cycle scheme to buy a new bike
Find out more at https://careers.immersivelabs.com
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