Desired Skills and Experience
- Analyze malware, spam campaigns and other threats
- Reverse engineer files to discover their intended functionality and risks to customers
- Create high-quality detection for threats
- Build, test and publish detection data files
- Write threat descriptions for publication on the Sophos website and threat research whitepapers.
- Triage requests submitted by other departments, respond to tasks or escalate complex issues to senior team members
- Answer customer queries routed through Technical Support and internal queries from all departments
- Identify opportunities to write blogs for the Sophos website to raise customer awareness
- Available for occasional weekend working
- Proven problem-solving skills with an inquisitive nature
- Proven ability to prioritize and organize assigned tasks
- Possess an analytical and methodical approach to workflow
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a global team
- Understanding of basic executable file formats (MZ/NE/PE) or scripting basics (Perl/Python/Regexp)
- Experience with a wide array of Internet technologies and protocols (HTML, JavaScript, SMTP, DNS)
- Experience with x86 assembly
- Experience in researching and reverse engineering malware using tools such as IDA Pro, WinDbg, OllyDbg and Hex editors
- Computer & Web Security experience
- Experience with a broad range of operating systems
- Programming skills and experience (C/C++/Python/Perl)
- Understanding of advanced executable file formats (ELF/DEX/Mach-O)
- Familiarity with exploitable file formats including Java, PDF, Flash and Office documents
- Published technical / whitepapers
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Software (or equivalent)