Head of Defensive Content Engineering

Ready to embark on the quest of joining Hack The Box?

At the end of this thrilling journey, you'll become a proud member of Hack The Box, with the ultimate mission to help redefine cybersecurity expertise. Get ready for an exciting adventure into the world of cybersecurity! 🚀🔒💻

✨The core mission of the Defensive Content Lead

The Head of Defensive Content Engineering collaborates with various stakeholders to define the product roadmap, so that it aligns with the overall strategy and priorities of the org while leading a team of engineers to deliver the roadmap. Delivering top-notch content for blue teamers’ readiness, aligned with global trends, is at the core of the role. 

🍺 The fellowship you’ll be joining:

HTB’s defensive team is a relatively new team, established two years ago. The team is part of the wider content engineering team, consisting of 30+ security engineers with a passion for cyber readiness! The closest stakeholders for you will be the product team, infra team, software engineering, as well as marketing and sales. 

📚 Interesting resources you should check

• Behind the screens | Meet the HTB Content Team
  

🚀 The adventures that await you after becoming a Defensive Content Lead at Hack The Box:

• Collect feedback, ideas and insights about defensive content from multiple internal stakeholders
• Evaluate, enrich and take ownership of defensive content engineering strategy/roadmap 
• Coordinate efforts for defensive content creation, while having a hands on approach
• Enrich existing HTB offerings with defensive/blue teaming elements
• Develop content that is aligned with companies’ needs 
• Lead, coach and develop a team of defensive content engineers (5-7 people)
• Identify external contractors and work with them directly to deliver unique content pieces. 

🏆Skills, knowledge, and experience points required to unlock the role of Defensive Content Lead at Hack The Box:

• Strong business acumen when it comes to enterprises’ defensive cybersecurity needs/situation/priorities
• Advanced stakeholder management & professional communication skills
• Proven ability in technical project management and orchestration of various technical teams with successful deliveries 
• Proven team management experience (coaching, planning, developing) 
• Passion for upskilling of blue teamers and improving the cybersecurity readiness of organizations through their people upskilling 
• Extensive experience in multiple SOC Levels 
• Experience in security engineering, setting up and configuration of defensive tools (Kibana, SIEM, EDR, etc.)
• Working experience in Digital Forensics 
• Professional experience in patching, threat hunting and incident response

🕹️ What your Hack The Box adventure will have in store:

🎯You'll have the exhilarating opportunity to contribute to a product that is highly appreciated by users and the cybersecurity community at large.

🎯 You'll experience a highly supportive and caring environment, fostering growth, flexibility, and autonomy.

🎯 You'll embark on an exciting journey of continuous learning and problem-solving, leveling up as our organization grows.

🎯 Most importantly, you'll have a blast at HTB 🥳 because fun is an essential ingredient in our recipe for success! Just wait until you see our global meet-ups!

💰The gems you’ll be enjoying as a Defensive Content Lead:

• Private health care.
• 25 annual leave days.
• Paid paternity leave.
• Ticket Restaurant
• Free lunch & snacks at the office
• Dedicated budget for training and professional development, participation in conferences.
• Full access to the Hack The Box lab offerings; so you can learn how to hack. 😉
• State-of-the-art equipment (mac, iPhone, and mobile plan).
• Flexible WFH (Hybrid Model) - Fully Remote is also an option.

Hack Your Career, Today. Join us in this epic adventure of cybersecurity at Hack The Box! 🚀🔒💻

At Hack The Box, we are on a quest to find the most exceptional and enthusiastic talent to join our team. Whether or not you consider yourself a gamer, we value what makes you unique and want to know more about you.

This job post provides just a glimpse of the incredible gamified experience our business and consumer customers enjoy through our platforms. So, if you're ready to embark on a journey of disruption, growth, and adventure, we can't wait to meet you!

ABOUT HACK THE BOX

Hack The Box is a leading gamified cybersecurity upskilling, certification, and talent assessment platform enabling individuals, businesses, government institutions, and universities to sharpen their offensive and defensive security expertise.

Launched in 2017, Hack The Box brings together the largest global cybersecurity community of more than 2m platform members and is on a mission to create and connect cyber-ready humans and organizations through highly engaging hacking experiences that cultivate out-of-the-box thinking.

Offering a fully guided and exploratory skills development environment, Hack The Box is the ideal solution for cybersecurity professionals and organizations to continuously enhance their cyber-attack readiness by improving their red, blue, and purple team capabilities.

Rapidly growing its international footprint and reach, Hack The Box is headquartered in the UK, with additional offices in Greece and the US.

🚨 Exciting News:

• Get the most important updates on HTB’s latest year!
• We are super proud to share that HTB’s all three entities across the UK, US, and Greece have been Certified as a Great Place to Work (Oct 2023-Oct 2024). 
• Furthermore, the HTB's Greek entity has been listed by the Great Place to Work Insitute as the #2 Best Work Place for 2024, and  #4 Best Workplace in Greece and #7 in Europe for 2023, among more than 3,300 companies💪 
• Take a sneak peek at how it is to be part of HTB and our 2023 Global Retreat. Get more insights about our HTB culture and employee experience by visiting the “about us” section of our site, our career site, and Glassdoor.

At Hack The Box, we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace. We believe that diversity enriches our performance, services, and the communities we serve. As such, we ensure that all job applications are considered solely based on merit, skills, and qualifications. We do not discriminate on grounds of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We are dedicated to providing a fair and respectful work environment that reflects our values.