Threat Systems Engineer at Command Post Technologies, Inc.
Camp Shelby, MS
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Jul 26, 2026
Camp Shelby, MS
Jul 27, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role centers on engineering and maintaining cyber threat emulation systems within classified, multi-domain military environments — configuring offensive and defensive tools to faithfully replicate adversary infrastructure and behaviors for training, testing, and live operations. The work spans deployment, validation, tuning, and lifecycle sustainment across distributed cloud and tactical environments. It suits a deeply technical candidate with extensive background in cyber operations or threat emulation and an active Top Secret/SCI clearance.
Senior level · 15+ years · Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC · Bachelor's required · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
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Why we read it this way (8)
The role sits at the boundary between 15-1212 (Information Security Analysts) and 15-1244 (Network/Systems Admins): it involves both threat analysis/emulation and hands-on infrastructure engineering/configuration. The primary day-to-day work — engineering and validating cyber threat systems, translating threat intelligence into system configurations, and conducting technical testing — aligns more closely with security analysis than pure infrastructure operations, so 15-1212 was chosen, with 15-1244 as the runner-up.
The posting requires an 'Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility' — mapped to TopSecretSci.
15 years is an unusually high bar but the role is scoped as a hands-on individual contributor (no people-management duties described), so seniority is Senior rather than Staff or Principal.
The posting names no specific named software products or platforms (e.g., no Cobalt Strike, Metasploit, Splunk, VMware, etc.) — skills are extracted at the capability/domain level as that is the most concrete technology language the JD uses.
LVC environments, threat modeling, and EW integration appear only under 'Preferred Qualifications' and are marked accordingly.
No compensation figures are provided. CPT is headquartered in Suffolk, VA; the role is mapped to the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News CBSA, which encompasses Suffolk.
Ignored 3 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): configuration management, cyber range operations, live, virtual, and constructive (LVC) environments.
Requires a TS/SCI clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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