Job Description

Description

The Proofpoint Threat Research team—including Emerging Threats—investigates and creates protective measures against advanced malware and intrusion techniques used by cybercriminal and nation-state actors. To do this effectively, researchers rely on innovative tooling, scalable infrastructure, and hygienic analysis environments. This role focuses on building and maintaining those systems.


Your day-to-day tasks:

  • Evaluate and support changes to our Threat Analysis environment
  • Analyze needs and create and support internal tools where appropriate
  • Support a team researching new and past threats, including malware, exploit kits, and vulnerabilities


    • Specific techncial areas of need:

  • Experience with network traffic inspection tools, such as Wireshark, tcpdump, Moloch, etc.
  • Familiarity with virtualization technologies, such as VMware products, VirtualBox, KVM, etc.
  • Experience with one or m...

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