OCO Cyber Instructor​/Developer

OCO Cyber Instructor/Developer

Location: Hurlburt Field, FL, JBSA, TX, and Keesler AFB, MS
Job Status: Full time
Clearance: Top Secret/SCI

Astrion has an exciting opportunity coming up for an OCO Cyber Instructor/Developer to join our team and support the 39th Information Operations Squadron (39 IOS) located at Hurlburt Field, FL. We are preparing to hire for Journeyman, Senior, and SME levels. Anticipated start date:
March/April 2026.

Cyber Operations Formal Training Support III (CyOFTS III) is a Cyber Schoolhouse program supporting delivery, development, and sustainment of cyber training across operationally relevant mission sets. The team supports instruction, curriculum and content development, training operations, and program execution at multiple Air Force and joint training locations.

• Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility
• Previous expeditionary/tactical communications experience
• IAT/M level II certification
• Previous experience in instruction or development of cyber courses

• Deliver instructor‑led training and/or develop instructional content in support of Offensive Cyber Operations (OCO) per approved curriculum and standards.
• Develop, update, and maintain lesson plans, courseware, training materials, and hands‑on lab content aligned to the Cyber Instructor/Developer labor category.
• Facilitate hands‑on labs, exercises, or scenarios that reinforce learning objectives.
• Assess student performance and provide feedback consistent with course standards.
• Apply cyber‑related knowledge areas outlined in the labor category (e.g., command line interfaces across operating systems; host/network analysis; forensic analysis; scripting languages; terrain mapping; network fundamentals).
• Support training content and delivery consistent with familiarity of cyberspace defense actions and missions supporting USCYBERCOM (as applicable to the course/missions supported).
• Support expeditionary/tactical communications topics and practical application consistent with the labor category experience requirements (as applicable).
• Maintain required instructor podium hours and required certifications associated with the labor category level (Journeyman/Senior/SME).
• Augment and support the Government in course planning and development, including, but not limited to, all formal training courses, lessons, and related courseware material, developing curriculum IAW applicable Master Training Task List (MTTL) and Training Task List (TTL) requirements as well as auditing and editing all developed courseware for accuracy, completeness, flow, balance, and clarity of understanding, IAW 39 IOS SOPs/Instructions/OIs, ACC Instructions, and Joint Directives.
• Provide associated documentation for design, development, revision, and administration of FTU training.
• Utilize the ISD ADDIE Model, along with Bloom's taxonomy level of learning and/or the Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, Redefinition (SAMR) Model for all course development.
• Assist in the development of Training Systems Requirements Analysis to include Mission/Task Analysis (MTA), Training Requirements Analysis (TRA), Objective Media Analysis (OMA), and Training Systems Basis Analysis (TSBA).
• Provide instructional strategies, methods, media analysis, objective analysis media and a syllabus/course map.
• Assist in the analysis of all tasks performed in the operation and maintenance of course materials; and assist in producing a MTTL for each mission area.
• Analyze Task Analysis Worksheets to ensure training requirements are derived by identifying TTL and knowledge, Qualifications, and abilities (KSA) needed to perform each task and comparing the entry level of learning to the required Bloom's taxonomy level of learning.
• Work with colleges/universities, institutions, industry, or Government agencies (i.e. Government, DoD, Joint, USAF, industry, academia, or foreign government) to identify and implement new information applicable to specific courses (or lessons).
• Review all guidance, technical documents, and manuals to ensure they effectively enable Government personnel to utilize training systems in instruction.
• Assess and analyze training…