Senior Threat Researcher
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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.
As a Proofpoint Senior Threat Researcher, you will leverage Proofpoint threat data to serve our most important customers. This team of dynamic and creative threat researchers is focused on working closely with our customers to provide them the latest threat information - both in answering research requests as they come in and by proactively threat hunting through customer data to find actionable threat information.
The successful candidate will have prior experience in at least two of the following areas, including but not limited to threat intelligence and detection, malware research, data analysis, and host or network forensics. This role must be able to develop trusted partnerships with our customers by providing expert guidance in clear, concise, and actionable deliverables that represent the Proofpoint value. This role is responsible for both internal and external customer-facing interaction. This role will produce threat landscape briefings, data analytics reports, and customer inquiry reports.
Your day-to-day
- Deliver intelligence to customers to optimize their investment in the Proofpoint portfolio
- Conduct malware analysis, proactive threat hunting, and respond to customer inquiries that enable customer-facing teams and internal product managers to deliver intelligence
- Collaborate with threat intelligence analysts, developers, and malware researchers to collect intelligence supporting actors, campaigns, and malware families for delivery to customers
- Analyze data across multiple platforms to deliver intelligence to customers and work with developers and product managers to enable access, automation, and analytics
- Apply a deep understanding and passion for the threat landscape, giving briefings to customers, prospects and internal groups to spread threat intelligence awareness
What You Bring To The Team
- Experience tracking actors or campaigns (threat intelligence), responding to security incidents (IR), or modeling actor behaviors (Red Team) and their associated tactics, techniques, and tools
- Ability to articulate the spectrum of threats our customers face and tactical and strategic changes in the threat landscape
- A passion for surfacing threats and communicating them to customers and internal leadership
- Experience in one or more technical areas such as forensics, incident response, threat intelligence, malware analysis, threat detection (E.G. Snort, Suricata, YARA, Clam AV)
- No fear of enabling sales and marketing to evangelize threat intelligence and enable customers
- Experience with AWS Athena and MongoDB and languages such as SQL and python.
- Ability to work in a cross-team culture focused on threat management for our customers
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences
- Bias for action and willingness to take risks
- Experience making things happen in a fast-paced dynamic environment
Nice to have
- Amazing presentation skills
- Threat data analysis skills
- Ability to query large data sets for meaningful data
- Experience working remotely for a large information security vendor
- Located in a US timezone, available during US business hours
Additional Information
- Travel Up to 10%
- Location Anywhere in USA, work from home/remote acceptable
#LI-EC1
If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us! - provided by Dice
Senior Threat Researcher
To see similar active jobs please follow this link: Remote Consulting jobs
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.
As a Proofpoint Senior Threat Researcher, you will leverage Proofpoint threat data to serve our most important customers. This team of dynamic and creative threat researchers is focused on working closely with our customers to provide them the latest threat information - both in answering research requests as they come in and by proactively threat hunting through customer data to find actionable threat information.
The successful candidate will have prior experience in at least two of the following areas, including but not limited to threat intelligence and detection, malware research, data analysis, and host or network forensics. This role must be able to develop trusted partnerships with our customers by providing expert guidance in clear, concise, and actionable deliverables that represent the Proofpoint value. This role is responsible for both internal and external customer-facing interaction. This role will produce threat landscape briefings, data analytics reports, and customer inquiry reports.
Your day-to-day
- Deliver intelligence to customers to optimize their investment in the Proofpoint portfolio
- Conduct malware analysis, proactive threat hunting, and respond to customer inquiries that enable customer-facing teams and internal product managers to deliver intelligence
- Collaborate with threat intelligence analysts, developers, and malware researchers to collect intelligence supporting actors, campaigns, and malware families for delivery to customers
- Analyze data across multiple platforms to deliver intelligence to customers and work with developers and product managers to enable access, automation, and analytics
- Apply a deep understanding and passion for the threat landscape, giving briefings to customers, prospects and internal groups to spread threat intelligence awareness
What You Bring To The Team
- Experience tracking actors or campaigns (threat intelligence), responding to security incidents (IR), or modeling actor behaviors (Red Team) and their associated tactics, techniques, and tools
- Ability to articulate the spectrum of threats our customers face and tactical and strategic changes in the threat landscape
- A passion for surfacing threats and communicating them to customers and internal leadership
- Experience in one or more technical areas such as forensics, incident response, threat intelligence, malware analysis, threat detection (E.G. Snort, Suricata, YARA, Clam AV)
- No fear of enabling sales and marketing to evangelize threat intelligence and enable customers
- Experience with AWS Athena and MongoDB and languages such as SQL and python.
- Ability to work in a cross-team culture focused on threat management for our customers
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences
- Bias for action and willingness to take risks
- Experience making things happen in a fast-paced dynamic environment
Nice to have
- Amazing presentation skills
- Threat data analysis skills
- Ability to query large data sets for meaningful data
- Experience working remotely for a large information security vendor
- Located in a US timezone, available during US business hours
Additional Information
- Travel Up to 10%
- Location Anywhere in USA, work from home/remote acceptable
#LI-EC1
If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us! - provided by Dice