Cybersecurity Instructor/Curriculum Developer in Colorado Springs, CO (Secret Clearance)

Our Deloitte Cyber team understands the unique challenges and opportunities businesses face in cybersecurity. Join our team to deliver powerful solutions to help our clients navigate the ever-changing threat landscape. Through powerful solutions and managed services that simplify complexity, we enable our clients to operate with resilience, grow with confidence, and proactively manage to secure success.

Recruiting for this role ends on March 31, 2026.

Work You'll Do

The Cyber Defense Trainer designs, develops, and delivers hands-on cyber defense training that simulates real-world threats that are tailored to US Space Force space mission systems and operations. This role builds engaging lab scenarios and courseware, presents technical courseware, and continuously improves training to keep pace with client needs and evolving tactics, techniques, and procedures.

Key responsibilities:

• Create new lab scenarios and hands-on exercises that replicate realistic cyber threats and operational conditions.
• Tailor training to space mission systems/operations and associated cyber terrain (mission-relevant technologies and dependencies).
• Design and develop courseware using instructional design models, including training objectives, curricula, course outlines, instructor guides, student guides, and job aids.
• Consult with stakeholders/clients to define learning objectives, training approach, delivery methods, and success criteria.
• Apply varied instructional techniques to accommodate different learning styles and sustain learner engagement.
• Collaborate with subject matter experts to ensure course content and the supporting training range are accurate, relevant, and impactful.
• Present/instruct developed courseware; facilitate labs, discussions, and assessments.
• Improve existing course content to keep training current and effective.
• Use Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Excel, Word) to build polished, usable training materials.

The Team

Deloitte's Government & Public Services (GPS) practice - our people, ideas, technology and outcomes - is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.

Our Cyber Strategy & Transformation offering develops and transforms cyber programs in line with a client's strategic objectives, regulatory requirements, and risk appetite. It keeps the enterprise a step ahead of the evolving threat landscape and gives stakeholders confidence in the organization's cyber posture. Includes design of the cyber organization, governance, and risk assessments.

The Project Delivery Talent Model is designed for professionals with specialized skills that align to a current client need. Team members focus on delivering services to clients, without additional expectations related to business development or promotion. Their employment is tied to their role on a project, and they are eligible for a benefits package that is competitive for project delivery-focused professionals.

Qualifications

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience plus one or more of the Qualifying Trainings and Certifications in lieu of degree.Certified Ethical Hacker (Practical)
• CompTIA Cloud+
• CompTIA PenTest+
• CompTIA Security+
• GIAC Certified Enterprise Defender (GCED)
• GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON)
• GIAC Defensible Security Architecture (GDSA)
• GIAC Response and Industrial Defense (GRID)
• GIAC Security Essentials (GSEC)
• DAU DCWF 511 Cyber Defense Analyst - Intermediate Playlist
• CIN A-531-1900 Joint Cyber Analysis Course (JCAC)
• CIN A-531-4421 Intermediate Cyber Core (CTN)
• DISA (511) Training DCWF Cyber Defense Analyst
• NEC H13A Navy Interactive ON-NET Operator
• Certified Information Systems Security Officer (CISSO)
• Active Secret clearance.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship now or in the future.
• Local to Colorado Springs, CO and able to work onsite 5 days/week in Colorado Springs, CO.
• Experience:
• 3+ years of cybersecurity experience with emphasis on cybersecurity course/training development, plus 3+ years of experience with SIEM/IDS/IPS (Elastic Stack, Splunk, HBSS (Host-Based Security System), or equivalent).
• 2+ years of experience with Windows and Linux command line, networking, traffic analysis, and MITRE ATT&CK.
• 1+ year of experience working on a cybersecurity team such as a SOC (Security Operations Center), CPT (Cyber Protection Team), or CSSP (Cybersecurity Service Provider).
• 1+ year of experience with Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Excel, Word).

Preferred experience

• Prior technical experience with US Air Force, US Space Force, or other DoD entities.
• Prior experience with space mission systems

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $88,600 to $147,600.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

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