Principal Network Security Analyst

Two Six Technologies is looking to add a Principal Network Security Analyst to our team. This role will be responsible for developing and deploying capabilities for our customers.  You will also be responsible for discovering, signaturing, and developing controls for malicious behavior against critical communication systems.

Job Responsibilities & Duties:

• Serve as the primary network security analyst on a small, highly motivated team
• Apply knowledge of exploitation and data exfiltration techniques to help solve complex mission challenges
• Provide mentoring to more junior exploitation and network analysts  on exploitation vector identification, network signaturing, and communication analysis 
• Assist with reverse engineering and debugging of relevant mobile applications applications
• Triage and scope ad-hoc tasks from the customer
• Provide leadership in business development and client relationship for strategic growth opportunities within IC clients.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Solid understanding of TCP/UDP ports and protocols and web requests including POST, GET, HTTP headers, user agents, request parameters, cookies, etc.
• Comfortable with performing testing and releases in an environment using CI/CD methodologies.
• At least 5 years of experience in performing protocol analysis on unknown network traffic using Wireshark or programmatic network analysis tools
• At least 5 years of experience with analyzing malware for its use of network communications and expert packet-level understanding communication signaturing to detect malicious actions
• Experience with at least one modern automation framework (preferably Ansible)

Nice to haves:

• Experience with identifying and analyzing vulnerabilities in complex applications
• Experience tracing code execution in a debugger (WinDbg/gdb/IDAPro/Ghidra)
• Configuration and use of network device simulators for communication introspection

Clearance Requirements:

• This position requires a TS/SCI with a full scope polygraph