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Summary

Has a strong track record of working with engineering and product teams on assessing applications against security standards, conducting risk-based assessments of application security practices, designing secure systems, and driving security by building close working partnerships with Product and Engineering professionals.

Baseline

Hard Skills

  • 5+ Years' experience in Security Research, Web-Application & Network Penetration Testing or adjacent fields.
  • Deep knowledge of the cyber security threat landscape, attacker mind-set and trends.
  • Understand and apply attack and penetration concepts including the attack surface; identification of system software and configuration vulnerabilities and critical information, data and processes that must be protected.
  • Software development experience/proficiency in multiple languages, mainly C/C++ and other object-oriented platforms. Experience with scripting languages such as Python/Perl/Ruby.
  • Operating System internals: PE, ELF, kernel, processes, networking, and hypervisors.
  • Experience with reverse engineering tools (e.g. disassemblers, debuggers, instrumentation frameworks, etc.).
  • Basic understanding of concepts in vulnerability research: Shell code, ROP, ASLR, exploit types, and heap manipulation.
  • An understanding of fault injection and side channel attacks
  • An understanding of past, current, and emerging security exploit types
  • Reverse engineering capabilities + working knowledge in IDA
  • Familiarity with secure bootloaders

Soft Skills

  • Team player with good interpersonal skills

Education

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience

Certification

Job Salary

Asia

$70K <= $90K <= $109K

Africa

$44K <= $60K <= $79K

North America

$75K <= $100K <= $126K

South America

$61K <= $74K <= $100K

Europe

£33,624 <= £63,999 <= £90,499

Oceania

AU$48K <= AU$69,990 <= AU$77K

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