Senior Security Research Engineer

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

As a Senior Engineer, Security Research you will be part of a Qualys Threat Research Unit that is responsible for the research, development, and delivery of emergent vulnerability mitigation techniques. This opening is your opportunity to work on a unique security solution in the rapidly expanding fields of penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, and cyber security. 

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.
Elevate AI strategies to provide mitigation strategies that prioritize risk against level of effort for multiple systems or organizations.
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 a 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 assessments 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.

Required Qualifications:

Graduate with a preferable 4-year degree or at least 3-year degree with computer science and information technology background.
Vulnerability research and exploit analysis.
Programming in any one of the following languages: PowerShell, Python, Shell.
Excellent understanding of network, system, and application security.
Excellent written and verbal communication and articulation skills.
Secure architecture designs and use of detection/protection mechanisms (e.g., firewalls, IDS/IPS, full-packet capture technologies) to mitigate risk.
Have working knowledge of basic operation systems commands and tooling - Windows, Linux, Mac OS.
Solid understanding of the security implications of a patch on web applications, Windows, Linux, Mac OS operating systems.

Preferred Skills:

Experience with IDA Pro, Ghidra, or similar binary analysis tools.
Knowledge of various vulnerability scanning solutions is a plus.
Specific demonstrated experience mapping business processes and comparing those processes to industry best practices.
Thorough testing of patches in a non-production environment.
Ability and ready to learn new technology and should be a good team player.