Senior Security Research Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Research, analyze, and assess attack surface and vulnerability data

• Develop tailored and actionable mitigation strategies and plans to address vulnerability risk

• Work with new and emerging vulnerability data to identify potential attack paths in critical systems.

• Document, develop and present mitigation strategies in web applications, databases, standalone applications, etc.

• Analyze the root cause of vulnerabilities and support the prioritization of mitigations based on risk and return on mitigation

• Provide mitigation strategies that prioritize risk against level of effort for multiple systems or organizations

• Catalog mitigation advice, challenges, and trends and patterns

• Patch diffing and reverse engineering with tools such as Ghidra, IDA, etc.

• Provide subject matter expertise on tailored mitigations to resolve and remediate vulnerabilities on targeted technologies

• Work in fast-paced startup like environment with shifting priorities to handle and maintain balance with multiple stakeholders.

• Conduct research to assess and create software patches and configuration changes to be applied to varied software, middleware and hardware

• Provide assessment including security, system, and business impact of vulnerabilities

• Must be able to think ahead to avoid business outages based on the lab results

• Analyze vulnerability data and support management of identified vulnerabilities, including tracking, remediation, and reporting

Desired Skills:

• Excellent understanding of network, system and application security

• Experience with IDA Pro, Ghidra, or similar binary analysis tool

• Knowledge of various vulnerability scanning solutions is a plus

• Excellent written and verbal communication

• Graduate with preferable 4 years degree or at least 3-year degree with computer science and information technology background

• Secure architecture designs and use of detection/protection mechanisms (e.g., firewalls, IDS/IPS, full-packet capture technologies) to mitigate risk

• A solid understanding of industry best practices for Patch Management

• Specific demonstrated experience mapping business processes and comparing those processes to industry best practices

• Background around using or understanding of security tools would be plus

• Solid understanding of the security implications of a patch on web applications, Windows, Linux, Mac OS operating systems

• Thorough testing of patches in a non-production environment

• Have working knowledge of basic operation systems commands and tooling - Windows, Linux, Mac OS

• Should have very good communication and articulation skills

• Ability and ready to learn new technology and should be a good team player

What you get to do:

Work within Threat Research, detection and response teams and analysts to define the priority, design the solution, and contribute to build framework for patching vulnerabilities