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Senior Threat Researcher

SophosAustralia

2 days ago

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Role Summary

SophosLabs is looking for an experienced, detail-oriented driven researcher with excellent technical skills to join our Reputation services team, a branch of our global team of highly skilled security experts, to provide fast response and high detection coverage for cross-platform threats targeting Sophos customers globally. In this role, you will be tasked with developing rules, behavioural signatures, curating reputation of threat objects by leveraging our vast collection of telemetric data. This highly technical role within the Sophos X-Ops division is a key cog in supporting and increasing our coverage in the global threat landscape and developing features, intelligence, and decisions in the SophosLabs Intelix platform. We run a remote-first working model. You will feel at home within our Agile team with its open communication, fanatical commitment to quality and a relentless drive for continuous improvement.

What You Will Do

Analyse attacks, incidents, clean & malicious threat objects and identify behaviour.
Crunch through SophosLabs vast collection of Threat Intelligence data and create signatures for hunting, detection and tracking of threat objects.
Develop exceptional tools to automate operational tasks with utmost attention to quality. Carry out best practices of testing (unit, end-to-end, automated functional tests, and manual tests) prior to deployment.
Collaborate with multiple and diverse stakeholders of the Sophos X-ops team.
Participate in Agile planning (clarify requirements, break down into sensible epics / stories, estimate user stories).
Engage with cross-functional teams to drive improvements to policies and processes.

What You Will Bring

Passionate about cybersecurity with a proven track record of relevant experience in the field and understanding of the security threat landscape.

Undergraduate degree, or equivalent experience, in information security, cybersecurity or computer science.

Ability to analyse threat objects and identify behaviour patterns.

Deep understanding of relevant Internet protocols, technologies, and standards.

Proficiency in programming and scripting languages, in particular Python.

Experience with building, deploying, and maintaining tools & services for data extraction and automation for internal users.

Navigate and analyse datasets of unique, structured, and unstructured data at scale.

Ability to work remotely, in a joint team environment across different time zones.

Strong collaboration and interpersonal communication skills working with a geographically distributed team.

Excellent communication, documentation, and problem-solving skills.

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