Threat Detection Engineer Contractor (Part-time) - Remote Job at Proofpoint
It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!
We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.
This role is responsible for supporting the creation of detections for our Emerging Threats Contractor (Part-time) Pro IDS ruleset as well as the environment for static detection creation for email based threats. You'll work to assist a team investigating an ever-changing landscape of phishing, malware, and exploits to create network and file-based signatures to detect same.
As a Proofpoint Threat Detection Engineer, you will perform in-depth analysis of our investigatory and analysis environment and spend time searching through open source as well as internal data to facilitate signature creation, analyzing threats, and making that information meaningful and available to Threat Research. You’ll be a part of a team of dynamic and creative threat researchers focused on finding new and emerging threats, understanding how they work, and use that knowledge to improve our products.
Your day-to-day tasks:
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Evaluate and support changes to our Threat Analysis environment
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Analyze needs and create and support internal tools where appropriate
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Research new and past threats, including malware, exploit kits, and vulnerabilities
What you bring to the team:
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Experience with network traffic inspection tools, such as Wireshark, tcpdump, Moloch, etc.
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Familiarity with writing signatures for the Snort or Suricata IDS platforms.
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An interest in the larger threat landscape
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Familiarity with virtualization technologies, such as VMware products, VirtualBox, KVM, etc.
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Experience with one or more scripting languages. Lua and Python proficiency preferred.
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Experience analyzing and interpreting host, network, and memory artifacts from sandbox environments.
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Experience with regular expressions/PCRE.
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Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
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Creativity, enthusiasm for the malware space, and a willingness to collaborate with the team.
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Must be able to work under broad strategic guidance.
Additional Information
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This is a fully remote position, with candidate expected to be available via audio and video conference, chat networks and email during US business hours
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Travel: 10% (potentially)
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Location: Anywhere in USA, work from home/remote
If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!
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