Security Researcher

Posted:	1 February 2013
Company name:	Alert Logic
Location:	Houston, TX 77056
	United States
Poster represents:	employer
Description: Alert Logic is hiring for a Security Researcher to work with our team of Research Engineers in analyzing new threats, proactively finding vulnerabilities and writing detection logic for these attacks. The successful candidate will have experience in writing signatures, reverse engineering, exploit development and/or offensive/defensive security tactics. Alert Logic sits at the nexus of two of the hottest trends in IT: the adoption of cloud technologies and increased security and compliance requirements driven by an increasingly connected world. In a typical month, Alert Logic processes over 100 million security events and stores petabytes of data for over 1,300 enterprise customers. We are an established company with a history of almost ten years, yet maintain a pace, energy and agility that allows us to advance our offerings and technology and preserve a startup-like culture. Responsibilities: Employ strong knowledge of security concepts and practices to proactively identify threats, vulnerabilities and exploits Analyze and respond to emerging threats and rapidly develop protection for our clients Investigate and analyze new threats, vulnerabilities and exploits and document and develop countermeasures Serve as an escalation point for the Security Operations Center for new incidents Make recommendations for appropriate development, engineering and corporate processes and procedures Answer questions from clients regarding new attacks and trends Perform reverse engineering of malicious code
Required skills: Strong passion for the security field Strong understanding of TCP/IP, Microsoft Windows, Unix & Linux operating systems Experience with high-level scripting languages (such as Python, Perl or Ruby) and Shell scripting Familiarity working with network switches, routers, firewalls and network monitoring tools Understanding of concepts such as various memory corruption attacks, web exploitation techniques, popular packing algorithms such as UPX, and behavioral analysis of mal-ware Real world hands-on security experience such as security assessments, penetration testing and ethical hacking are desirable. Computer Security Certifications such as OSCP, NOP, GREM, GWAPT or GPEN are a plus
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