Cybersecurity Researcher

București, Romania

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Acronis

Acronis provides award-winning backup software & data protection solutions for consumers, businesses & MSPs. Protect your sensitive information!

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As Acronis is dedicated not just to Cyber Protection but to the general protection of its potential and current employees, recruitment and onboarding process are being held online during the current global COVID-19 situation.

Acronis leads the world in cyber protection - solving safety, accessibility, privacy, authenticity, and security (SAPAS) challenges with innovative backup, security, disaster recovery, and enterprise file sync and share solutions that run in hybrid cloud environments: on-premises, in the cloud, or at the edge. Enhanced by AI technologies and blockchain-based data authentication, Acronis protects all data, applications and systems in any environment, including physical, virtual, cloud, and mobile.

With dual headquarters in Switzerland and Singapore, Acronis protects the data of more than 5 million consumers and 500,000 businesses in over 150 countries and 20 languages.

Acronis brings advanced cyber protection solutions to web hosting providers and website owners. As a Cybersecurity Researcher at the global Cyber Protection Operations team, you will be fighting against modern web cyber attacks by comprehensive analysis of latest threats and creating security definition for Acronis products. As an expert in cyber threats you will participate in research, design and development of new cyber protection technologies.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Perform research in some of the following areas of server and endpoint protection:

  • Vulnerability assessment and configuration assessment;
  • Network security, intrusion detection and protection, including web applications protection;
  • Prevention and detection of attacks that utilize malware/hacktools and targeting Linux/UNIX systems.
  • Develop, support and tune vulnerability, misconfiguration and threat detection rules.
  • Conduct online research of latest cyber threats and ensure it can be prevented/detected with existing technologies. Share research results in blogposts and articles.
  • Analyze suspicious scripts, traffic, websites and their contents both found in the wild or retrieved from customers, adding latest threat detections or fixing false alarms.
  • Design, develop and monitor automation scripts and pipelines to minimize manual efforts required from analysts/researchers.
  • Advise colleagues and customers about real-world attacks and the corresponding detection / prevention countermeasures.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:

  • 3+ years of experience in a system administration / system or web development / security audits for some of the following: RHEL (CentOS) / Debian / Ubuntu;
  • Deep understanding of common cyber attack techniques and methods; network protocols; vulnerability and configuration assessment
  • Knowledge of Linux security subsystems, tools and conceptions, including logging abilities
  • Decent skills in configuring at least one of: web / application / database / mail servers running on Linux/UNIX
  • Good interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
  • Upper-intermediate English

Would be a plus:

  • Technical security certifications like OSCP (the best choice) or CEH or proven experience in security assessments
  • Skills in configuring at least one of: web / application / database / mail servers running on Linux/UNIX
  • Practical skills in security scanners, vulnerability & configuration assessment tools, SIEMs, WAFs, traffic analysis software
  • Background in development security software or routine security task automation
  • Knowledge of OWASP methodologies
  • Skills in programming languages enough for fast PoC creation (Python, shell, etc.)
  • Decent experience with other UNIX operating systems
  • Knowledge of PHP v5+ language
  • Practice in reverse engineering and corresponding methods, techniques and tools
  • Some Machine Learning skills or wish to improve yourself in this area
  • Experience with virtualization, containerization and cloud technologies

WE OFFER:

  • Attractive remuneration
  • Sport card
  • Meal vouchers
  • Supplemental Health insurance
  • Tickets for conferences and seminars
  • Challenging atmosphere and interesting projects
  • Future career development in a multinational company

 

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Tags: Audits Automation Blockchain CEH Cloud Debian Intrusion detection Linux Machine Learning Malware Network security OSCP OWASP PHP Privacy Python Reverse engineering Security assessment Threat detection Ubuntu UNIX

Perks/benefits: Career development Conferences

Region: Europe
Countries: Oman Romania
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Category: Research Jobs

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