Principal Security Researcher - Reading, United Kingdom - Oracle

Oracle

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Reading, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Senior Principal Security Researcher
Flexible requiring 50% travel to Reading office

Work You'll Do

Perform indepth security assessments using your code review skills, leveraging results from other assessments such as static and dynamic analysis
Create testing tools to help engineering teams identify securityrelated weaknesses
Collaborate with engineering teams to help them triage and fix security issues
Keep yourself abreast of new TTPs (Tactics, Techniques & Procedures) of the attackers, mimic them in your security assessments and/or quickly react to new threat scenarios to provide continuous security assurance
Mentor junior members of the team in software security as a role model
What You'll Bring
Aptitude for selfstudy, setting and achieving long term goals (for example, learning an unfamiliar programming language)
Ability to effectively assess and communicate risks and appropriate levels of urgency to management and engineering staff
Excellent organizational, presentation, verbal, and written communication skill
This role does not require access to a cleared work environment. Security clearances are not required, and active clearances cannot be sponsored.

Nice to Have

Experience working in a large cloud or Internet software company
Proficiency with one or more programming languages, preferably Go, Java, Python or C/C++
Ability to perform manual source code reviews in one of the aforementioned languages, or assisted review with code analysis tools such as CodeQL
Experience navigating and working with extremely large codebases is also highly desirable
Experience using common security assessment tools and techniques in one or more the following categories:
Reverse Engineering (e.g., IDA Pro/Ghidra/Radare2) and debugging codebase with the objective to find security gaps/vulnerabilities
Proficiency in Fuzzing (e.g., Jazzer/AFL/Peach) techniques to inject invalid, malformed, or unexpected inputs into a system to reveal software defects and vulnerabilities.
Proficiency in advanced Mobile, API, Infrastructure, Web Application penetration testing to find vulnerabilities such as insecure Java/PHP/PHAR deserialization, XXE, HTTP desynchronization, cryptography weaknesses (exploiting ECB Shuffling, CBC Bit Flipping etc.), Mass assignments, template injections, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 protocol issues etc.
Knowledge of common vulnerabilities in different types of software and programming languages, including:
How to test for/exploit them
Real world mitigations that can be applied
Familiarity with vulnerability classification frameworks (e.g., OWASP Top 10)

What We'll Give You

A team of very skilled and diverse personnel across the globe
Exposure to mind blowing largescale cuttingedge systems
The resources of a large, global operation while still having the small, startup feel of a smaller team day to day
Develop new skills and competencies working with our vast cloud product offerings
Ongoing extensive training and skills development to further your career aspirations
Incredible benefits and company perks
An organization filled with smart, enthusiastic, and motivated colleagues
The opportunity to impact and improve our systems and delight our customers

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