Asset Identity Research Engineer

Come work at a place where innovation and teamwork come together to support the most exciting missions in the world!

As an Asset Identity/Discovery Research and Signature development Engineer, you will be part of a motivated engineering team that is responsible for the research, development, and delivery of asset identity/discovery signatures in the Qualys Security products. This opening is your opportunity to work in the rapidly expanding field of computer security with a company that has excellent customer ratings and outstanding growth rates. 
Responsibilities: 

• Research and create signatures for the Qualys product to recognize assets of different varieties such as Laptops, Desktops, Mobile Phones, Cameras, IoT devices etc. from the fingerprints of their communication protocol messages.
• Research new and emerging products and innovative use of networking protocols so that these assets can be identified from their network behaviour.
• Build automation for day-to-day tasks that are part of your research job. 
• Closely work with customer support to troubleshoot and triage customer issues such as fingerprinting unidentified devices, fixing incorrect fingerprints, etc.  

Qualifications: 

• BS in computer science with 2-4 years of experience in Information Security domain or MS in computer science or cyber security. 
• Excellent proficiency with regular expressions.
• Experience with network analysis tools, and analysis of packet captures using Wireshark. 
• In-depth knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP, FTP, SSH, SSL, NetBios, eMail, DNS, DHCP, Samba/Windows-Networking and understanding of UPnP protocols.
• Experience with scripting languages, including Python and Bash.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Additional Plus Competencies: 

• Understanding of Lua (preferred), or Java. 
• Knowledge of Virtualization software (VMWare, Virtual PC/Virtual Box, XEN, etc.). 
• Knowledge of any Cloud Platform (AWS, Azure, Oracle, etc.). 
• System administrator experience on Windows or Unix platforms. 
• Ability to handle projects independently.
• Experience in developing security-related tools/programs.