It is hackening ! Do you have what it takes to be a HACKSTAR ROCKSTAR? Are you the SOMEBODY who can literally rock anything?! 

We are looking for a Hackstar Software Engineer on a freelance basis that will develop new applications and maintain existing ones for the labs. Some of these applications include:

• Pentesting Labs/Capture-the-flags (CTF) environment.
• IoT Pentesting Labs.
• Red-teaming Environments.
• Scripting to handle provisioning of cloud environments.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and design Pentesting scenarios/IoT scenarios for intermediate to professional learners.
• Improve tools and scripts for automated provisioning using Ansible, Vagrant and Linux Bash.
• Produce technical and user documentation on all related changes.
• Develop new technical applications and maintaining existing ones.
• Familiarity with setting up open source cloud infrastructure such as OpenStack, DeterLab/EmuLab, or Virtual Box.
• Experience with deploying infrastructure as code (IaC) using Vagrant, Terraform.
• Experience with provisioning environments using Ansible, Chef, Puppet or bash scripting.
• Technical knowhow of developing web services using Java, Python, for integration with cloud service’s API or CLI.
• Able to pick up PHP, C, Perl, sh/bash for debugging and simple scripting purposes.
• Able to set up CI/CD DevOps environment, e.g Bamboo, Jenkins.
• Ensure proper IT security implementation and protection of services.
• Participate in the procurement of new IT equipment and software.

Requirements

• Fresh graduates are welcome to apply.
• Tertiary degree holders with relevant specialization or courses/modules/projects.
• Able to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Possesses good analytical, problem-solving, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Has great interest and aptitude in network and systems programming, enjoy learning technical details and experimenting with systems and technologies, e.g. o Played Hack the box or VulnHub.

Great to have

• Knowledge of deploying javascript projects
• Laravel experience
• Knowledge of envoyer
• Automation skills (Ansible, Terraform, Puppet,Chef)
• Knowledge of deploying php/composer applications
• Experience with cloud environments ( ideally Digital Ocean, AWS, GCP)