Senior Threat Researcher

at  Sophos

ABOUT US

Sophos is a global leader and innovator of advanced security solutions that defeat cyberattacks, including Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and incident response services and a broad portfolio of endpoint, network, email, and cloud security technologies. As one of the largest pure-play cybersecurity providers, Sophos defends more than 600,000 organizations and more than 100 million users worldwide from active adversaries, ransomware, phishing, malware, and more. Sophos’ services and products connect through the Sophos Central management console and are powered by Sophos X-Ops, the company’s cross-domain threat intelligence unit. Sophos X-Ops intelligence optimizes the entire Sophos Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem, which includes a centralized data lake that leverages a rich set of open APIs available to customers, partners, developers, and other cybersecurity and information technology vendors. Sophos provides cybersecurity-as-a-service to organizations needing fully managed security solutions. Customers can also manage their cybersecurity directly with Sophos’ security operations platform or use a hybrid approach by supplementing their in-house teams with Sophos’ services, including threat hunting and remediation. Sophos sells through reseller partners and managed service providers (MSPs) worldwide. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.

READY TO JOIN US?

At Sophos, we believe in the power of diverse perspectives to fuel innovation. Research shows that candidates sometimes hesitate to apply if they don’t check every box in a job description. We challenge that notion. Your unique experiences and skills might be exactly what we need to enhance our team. Don’t let a checklist hold you back – we encourage you to apply.

ROLE SUMMARY

SophosLabs is looking for an experienced, detail-oriented driven researcher with excellent technical skills to join our Reputation services team, a branch of our global team of highly skilled security experts, to provide fast response and high detection coverage for cross-platform threats targeting Sophos customers globally.
In this role, you will be tasked with developing rules, behavioural signatures, curating reputation of threat objects by leveraging our vast collection of telemetric data.
This highly technical role within the Sophos X-Ops division is a key cog in supporting and increasing our coverage in the global threat landscape and developing features, intelligence, and decisions in the SophosLabs Intelix platform.
We run a remote-first working model. You will feel at home within our Agile team with its open communication, fanatical commitment to quality and a relentless drive for continuous improvement.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

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• Analyse attacks, incidents, clean & malicious threat objects and identify behaviour.

• Crunch through SophosLabs vast collection of Threat Intelligence data and create signatures for hunting, detection and tracking of threat objects.
• Develop exceptional tools to automate operational tasks with utmost attention to quality. Carry out best practices of testing (unit, end-to-end, automated functional tests, and manual tests) prior to deployment.
• Collaborate with multiple and diverse stakeholders of the Sophos X-ops team.
• Participate in Agile planning (clarify requirements, break down into sensible epics/stories, estimate user stories).
• Engage with cross-functional teams to drive improvements to policies and processes.