Freelance Opportunity: Contract Cybersecurity Content Creator

Job Description:

Are you passionate about cybersecurity and eager to share your expertise? Pluralsight is looking for experienced professionals to create high-quality training content in key areas of cybersecurity. This contract-based, freelance opportunity lets you shape the future of security education while working on your own schedule.

Key Focus Areas

We’re actively developing content in the following cybersecurity topics:

Red Team Operations – Teach strategies for adversarial simulations, penetration testing, and offensive security tactics.

Threat Intelligence – Share insights on gathering, analyzing, and applying intelligence to anticipate and counter cyber threats.

Secure Coding – Provide best practices for writing resilient, secure code to mitigate vulnerabilities.(Java & C#, .NET & OWASP)

Security Analysis – Detection and analysis of cyber threats using SIEM and IDS/IPS solutions, including Elastic, Splunk, Zeek, Snort, etc.

What You’ll Do:

• Develop in-depth cybersecurity content that aligns with industry needs and best practices.

• Create engaging training materials, including video courses and hands-on labs.

• Develop and structure course outlines, scenarios, and demo environments; produce slides to a provided set of standards and practices; narrate, record, and edit screen captures and slide-based presentations.

• Stay ahead of cybersecurity trends through research and industry engagement.

Why Join Us?

Flexible Work – Set your own schedule and create content in your spare time.
Global Impact – Your work will reach a worldwide audience of security professionals eager to advance their skills.

Competitive Compensation – Get paid for your expertise while contributing to the cybersecurity community.

Experience you’ll bring:

• Extensive experience as a cybersecurity practitioner - ideally in areas such as: penetration testing, threat intelligence, red teaming, secure coding, or incident response.

• Experience as an author, content creator, instructor, and/or trainer.

• A passion for teaching and creating content: whether as an instructor, trainer, or author.

• The ability to translate complex cybersecurity concepts into clear, engaging learning experiences.

Desired Experience (but not required):

• Experience in creating educational video content like online courses, tutorials, webinars, or technical presentations.

• Basic video editing skills including trimming, adding annotations, and improving audio quality 

• to ensure professional and engaging content.

• Familiarity with screen recording tools (e.g. Camtasia, OBS Studio, or Adobe Premiere) for capturing high-quality demonstrations and walkthroughs.

This is a freelance, contract-based position, meaning you have the freedom to create content on your terms while making a lasting impact in the cybersecurity space.

Interested? Apply now or reach out with questions. Let’s collaborate to create world-class cybersecurity training together! 

Physical and Mental Requirements:

Work is performed in an office (or home office) environment and requires the ability to operate office equipment and keyboards. Sedentary work. Repetitive work. Ability to perform tasks related to documentation, data analysis, transcription, and extensive content analysis. Learn new tasks, remember processes, complete tasks independently, and make timely decisions in the context of a workflow.

EEOC Statement:

Bring yourself. Pluralsight is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, age, or protected veteran status. Pluralsight will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please visit the bottom of our website to learn how to request an accommodation.

For more information on Pluralsight’s commitment to building a more diverse and inclusive workforce, please review our most recent Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging report here.

Applications must be submitted within 90 days after the initial posting date to be considered.

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