Security Analyst

This role is based in the Tel Aviv office in Israel. We are only able to accept applications for those based in Israel or have sponsorship to live and work in Israel.

What you'll do at Jamf:

At Jamf, we empower people to be their best selves and do their best work. The Threat Research Analyst focuses on finding new ways to protect customers from malicious activity. They will keep up with known malicious threats and innovates new ways to catch new, previously unknown malicious actors. The Threat Research Analyst has a vital role in incident handling.

What you can expect to do in this role:

• Research new ways to detect malicious activity on using a wide variety of custom-built tooling
• Participate on research how to protect users from 0-day attacks
• Perform analysis of detections according to the assignment to determine accuracy and precisions and tune detections accordingly based on results
• Stay up to date on the latest malware trends and design detections accordingly
• Support sales and marketing by timely information about emerging threats and trends
• Analyse threats and search for malicious sites/applications/processes/files
• Write and manage detection patterns and algorithms to detect malicious threats
• Write and manage detection patterns and algorithms to detect malicious Android and iOS mobile applications
• Perform other duties and special projects as assigned

What we are looking for:

• An understanding of cyber security and intrusion detection (Required)
• Python development (Required)
• Malware Analysis capabilities (Required)
• Strong interest in mobile security (Required)
• An overall comprehensive understanding of incident response (Preferred)
• Experience with detecting malware using Yara rules (Preferred)
• Experience with reverse engineering, static and dynamic analysis of mobile applications (Preffered)
• Proven Analytical Skills
• Customer value focus with the ability to quickly iterate based on emerging threats and customer feedback
• Solution focused ability working collaboratively in a fast-paced, agile environment

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• 4 year / Bachelor's Degree (Preferred)
• A combination of relevant experience and education may be considered

Why Jamf?

• 100 Best Companies to Work For by Great Place to Work® and Fortune Magazine
• Our developers work in agile delivery teams to produce new features, improve software components, and are the subject matter experts for our Jamf product offerings.
• We constantly push the boundaries of technology, our developers support new innovations and OS releases the moment they are made available by Apple.
• Several Jamf engineers are named in patents and with team names like CatDog, ThunderSnow and Dalek you can expect to have some fun while building cutting-edge software.
• You will have the opportunity to work with a small and empowered team where the culture is based on trust, ownership, and respect.
• Visit our Jamf Engineering blog to learn more about the innovative projects our team is working on and what we learn from each challenge we solve. A blog written by engineers, for engineers at https://engineering.jamf.com/