Sr Security Engineer

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

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