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Hack The Box

Cybersecurity education platform with gamified labs

Senior Network Engineer

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/15/2026
No salary listed
Senior
Palaio Faliro, Greece
HybridThose within 55 km of the Athens office follow a hybrid model; candidates farther away in Greece can work fully remotely. Relocation support is available.
IT OperationsNetwork Engineering & Administration

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 5 years of professional experience in network engineering, focused on data center networking.
  • Hands-on experience with BGP, including eBGP/iBGP, route policies, communities, and prefix management across multi-site environments.
  • Experience designing and operating EVPN-VXLAN fabrics.
  • Proficiency with JunOS and Juniper switching and routing platforms, including QFX and MX series.
  • Understanding of spine-leaf/IP fabric architectures, VLANs, VRFs, and inter-VLAN routing.
  • Experience with network automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Nornir, or similar tools.
  • Familiarity with Linux networking fundamentals, including iptables/nftables, routing, bonding, and host-level VXLANs.
  • Ability to diagnose complex, multi-layer network issues methodically under pressure.
  • Written communication skills for documenting designs and collaborating in a remote-first environment.
Responsibilities
  • Design and operate production-grade, multi-site network architectures using BGP, EVPN-VXLAN, and JunOS.
  • Design and implement spine-leaf network architectures across multiple data center sites in the US, EU, Singapore, and Australia.
  • Operate and troubleshoot BGP peering, route policies, and prefix filtering in a multi-site environment.
  • Build and maintain EVPN-VXLAN overlay fabrics for scalable Layer 2 and Layer 3 connectivity across data centers.
  • Configure, upgrade, and harden Juniper network equipment, including QFX and MX series, running JunOS.
  • Develop and maintain network automation using Ansible, Terraform, or similar infrastructure-as-code tools.
  • Establish and improve network monitoring, alerting, and observability using Prometheus, Grafana, SNMP, and streaming telemetry.
  • Plan and execute network capacity upgrades, site bring-ups, and hardware refresh cycles.
  • Collaborate with the platform and systems engineering teams on network requirements for VMware, Kubernetes, and Ceph storage clusters.
  • Document network designs, runbooks, and standard operating procedures for a globally distributed team.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation for network-related incidents across all regions.
Desired Qualifications
  • Cybersecurity-mindedness.
  • Experience with network operations in a multi-region, multi-continent data center environment.
  • Familiarity with Ceph or other distributed storage systems from a network-performance perspective, including NVMe-oF, RDMA, and high-throughput east-west traffic.
  • Exposure to Kubernetes networking, including CNI plugins, service meshes, and load balancers.
  • JNCIA, JNCIS, JNCIP, or equivalent networking certifications.
  • Understanding of Golang for building internal network tooling or automation.
  • Experience in a cybersecurity-focused or platform-as-a-service company.

About the company

Hack The Box builds a platform for practical cybersecurity learning and recruitment. It provides a library of hands-on labs, gamified challenges, and capture-the-flag exercises that users can access through a freemium model—free for basic content with paid upgrades for advanced features. Users practice real-world security tasks in controlled environments, improving skills by doing rather than reading. The platform also serves as a talent pipeline, helping businesses identify and recruit cybersecurity professionals from a pool of proven, practical skills. What makes HTB stand out is its gamified approach (labs, CTFs, and features like Hacker of the Month) that makes learning engaging and goal-oriented. Ultimately, HTB aims to educate individuals, support organizations in strengthening their security teams, and connect skilled practitioners with employers.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$69.5M

Headquarters

Folkestone, United Kingdom

Founded

2017

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What believers are saying

  • HTB launched Threat Range in March 2026 for executive breach simulations.
  • HTB AI Range and the August 2026 benchmark validate demand for agentic AI readiness.
  • CTO Konstantinos Dolkas and CMO Christine Bartlett should accelerate enterprise and government sales.

What critics are saying

  • October 12, 2026 Academy price hikes hit students and Gold users hard.
  • TryHackMe, Immersive, and SimSpace compress HTB's differentiation with adjacent enterprise ranges.
  • If AI security training commoditizes, HTB's community moat weakens and enterprise pricing erodes.

What makes Hack The Box unique

  • HTB pairs gamified labs with enterprise readiness, unlike course-only cyber training vendors.
  • Forrester named HTB a 2026 Leader for agentic AI readiness and gamification.
  • HTB combines offensive labs, defensive SOC simulations, and talent search in one platform.

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Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account

Paid Vacation

Parental Leave

Remote Work Options

Hybrid Work Options

401(k) Company Match

Home Office Stipend

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Headcount

6 month growth

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1 year growth

1%

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Yahoo Finance
Oct 6th, 2026
Hack The Box launches AI Range Enterprise to test cybersecurity AI agent competence

Hack The Box has launched AI Range Enterprise Edition, a platform enabling organisations to test and measure the effectiveness of AI security agents in performing assigned cybersecurity roles. The offering allows companies to evaluate AI agent performance against defined job roles in controlled cyber environments. The platform introduces two key features: Agentic Worker Competence, which appraises AI agents against specific cybersecurity roles, and Agentic Operator Competence Scoring, which evaluates whether cybersecurity professionals can effectively oversee AI agents' work and intervene when necessary. HTB first introduced AI Range in December 2025. The enterprise edition builds on testing by AI labs, government customers, and hyperscalers. The platform provides role-based scores and tracks performance over time as agents, models, and operating conditions change. Hack The Box was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave for Cybersecurity Skills and Training Platforms in Q1 2026.

Yahoo Finance
Jul 28th, 2026
Hack The Box appoints CTO and promotes CMO to accelerate AI cybersecurity platform growth

Hack The Box, a global AI cybersecurity readiness platform with over 800 enterprise customers and 4.3 million security professionals, has appointed Konstantinos Dolkas as Chief Technology Officer and promoted Christine Bartlett to Chief Marketing Officer. Dolkas brings nearly 20 years of executive technology leadership experience across cybersecurity and SaaS. He previously served as CTO at OWNR Deutschland GmbH and holds a Ph.D. in cloud computing architecture from the National Technical University of Athens. As CTO, he will oversee HTB's engineering organisation and technology strategy. Bartlett joined HTB as Vice President of Marketing in 2025. As CMO, she will lead the company's global marketing organisation and oversee brand, communications, and go-to-market strategy. The appointments aim to support HTB's expansion across enterprise, government, and managed security service provider markets.

Business Wire
Mar 11th, 2026
Hack The Box named leader in Forrester cybersecurity training platform evaluation

Hack The Box has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Cybersecurity Skills and Training Platforms, Q1 2026. The AI-powered cybersecurity readiness platform received the highest possible scores in 13 evaluation criteria, including agentic AI readiness, gamification and learner experience. The company has raised $295 million to date and serves over 4 million members and 800 enterprise customers, including Fortune 500 companies and government agencies. HTB recently launched AI Range, a cyber range for testing autonomous AI security agents, and Threat Range, an enterprise crisis simulation platform. The company also acquired LetsDefend to strengthen its defensive training capabilities. Forrester's report notes HTB's "future-focused" innovation strategy around AI security, emerging threats and operational readiness, calling it "a strong fit" for organisations preparing teams for AI-augmented security environments.

SiliconANGLE Media
Sep 16th, 2025
Hack The Box Acquires LetsDefend Platform

Hack The Box Ltd. has acquired LetsDefend Inc., a blue team training platform provider, for an undisclosed amount. LetsDefend, founded in 2021, offers an interactive platform focused on developing defensive cybersecurity skills. Unlike platforms that emphasize offensive training, LetsDefend provides hands-on defensive experience in a simulated security operations center, allowing users to investigate various simulated cyber incidents.

PR Newswire
Mar 8th, 2024
Empowering Women In Cybersecurity Through Esports: The Wicked6 Initiative

ASHBURN, Va., March 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- In honor of Women's History Month and International Women's Day, PlayCyber by Katzcy is addressing the ongoing gender gap in the global cybersecurity market by announcing the "Wicked6 Initiative." Wicked6 is a 24-hour, virtual global hack and chat event for women that provides a platform for skills development, networking, and empowerment. Wicked6 takes place March 29–30, 2024.Empowering Women in Cybersecurity Through eSports: The Wicked6 InitiativeDesigned for individuals of all skill levels, the event grants women access to six (6) cyber game platforms and encourages them to try, as an individual or group, a game for cyber career skills development. The 2024 platforms are Hack The Box, Haiku, InspireTech, MetaCTF, U.S. Cyber Range of Virginia Tech, and the Women's Society of Cyberjutsu.Event sponsors include Google, Protegrity, SpecterOps, and QryptoCyber."Cybersecurity games provide a unique 'Learn to Play, Play to Learn' approach by teaching individuals how to play cybersecurity-related games," explains Jessica Gulick, CEO of Katzcy. "Players take on more complexity as they play. Cyber games offer a lifelong eSport where players can safely keep their cyber offense and defense skills sharp throughout their careers."Over a 24-hour period, attendees will listen to and engage with female cybersecurity professionals from around the world including Camille Stewart Gloster, Esq, Deputy National Cyber Director, Technology & Ecosystem Security, The White House, USA; Kana Shinoda, Organizer of CODE BLUE from Japan; Marina Ciavatta, Social Engineer & Cybersecurity Awareness Instructor from Brazil; Confidence Staveley, Cybersecurity Leader & Author from Africa; Simbiat Sadiq, Cybersecurity Consultant at BDO Ireland; and Dr