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    Security Researcher - milton keynes, United Kingdom - HMGCC

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    Job Description

    Salary

    £52,890 - £56,867 (*Opportunity to apply for additional skills allowance up to £3,500 after 12 months)

    Job description

    Available for full time (37 hours per week) or part time (minimum coverage 25 hours per week) Monday to Friday

    Flexible or compressed working patterns available

    Interested in Cyber Security and Ethical Hacking?

    Enjoy searching for vulnerabilities in systems?

    Want to work somewhere that you can really make a difference?

    Your passion and interest in Cyber Security will spur you on to do hands on research and discover vulnerabilities within systems to help protect National Security in the UK and overseas.

    You'll 'Red Team' a wide range of IT and communication products that HMGCC provides to the British Government. Your knowledge will enable you to find vulnerabilities in software and hardware and ensure you can secure them before they can be exploited.

    You'll work on projects that range from short term security assessments to long term in-depth examination of complex systems. You'll work on a wide range of technologies which will require your problem solving skills and tenacity to tackle new security problems as technologies evolve.

    Don't know it all yet? No problem You'll receive investment in your career development through technical training, professional accreditation, mentoring and on the job training. There's also the chance to travel overseas for conferences and training too.

    More About You

    You'll already have experience and be able to demonstrate evidence in your application of,

    • Reverse engineering Software or Firmware.
    • Platform security mitigations (such as ASLR, DEP, Sandboxing etc).
    • Common Vulnerability Classes (such as buffer overflows, UAF etc).
    • Invasive and passive debugging.

    To strengthen your application, it would be beneficial if you also have one or more of the following (although these are not essential),

    • Operating System Internals (such as memory and process management, kernel driver development etc.
    • Developed software in low level unmanaged languages (such as C, C++).
    • Worked with one or more assembly languages (x86, ARM, MIPS etc).

    Your Personal Skills

    You will be the type of person who,

    • Is technically curious and likes to explore the detailed inner workings of a system.
    • Feels implicit with uncertainty and doesn't require knowing the full picture.
    • Thinks flexibly and creatively about problems that seem impossible.
    • Is willing to persevere with a challenge and approach it in an organised manner.
    • Is willing to work with and learn from others.

    Putting your skills to use

    Using your range of skills within our Security Research Teams, you will,

    • Examine and experiment with our products.
    • Carry out vulnerability research activities.
    • Identify weaknesses and vulnerabilities and demonstrate them using proof of concepts.
    • Document your research for sharing with others.
    • Liaise with our development teams to secure our products.
    • Develop new tools and techniques to help analyse our products.
    • Keep track of emerging technologies and assess how they may impact us.
    • Make good use of configuration management tools.

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