Network Security Researcher

Key Responsibilities

• Individual and team contribution to projects.
• Leadership and mentoring of less experienced team members.
• Creation of technical reporting on findings.
• Contribution to client tooling and shared knowledge.
• Leading and growing a technology capability area.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Benefits

• Flexible Working: Balance your work and personal life with our flexible working options.
• Generous Holiday Allowance: Enjoy 25 days of holiday, plus bank holidays, with the option to buy up to 5 additional days of annual leave.
• Medicash & Critical Illness Scheme
• Financial & Investment Benefits: Enjoy peace of mind with our Pension, Life Assurance, and Share Save Scheme.
• Community & Volunteering Programmes: Make a difference in your community with our volunteering opportunities.
• Green Car Scheme: Drive green and save money with our eco-friendly car scheme.
• Cycle Schem e: Stay fit and healthy with our cycle-to-work scheme.
• Special Time Off: Take time off for those big moments in life, like getting married/entering into a civil partnership, becoming a grandparent, and welcoming home a new pet.
• Family Planning: Benefit from our generous maternity and paternity leave, as well as time off and support for those undergoing fertility treatments.

Skills

• Essential
• Clearance: This role requires the candidate to hold and maintain a high level National Security clearance.
• Experience: Experience of undertaking research type activities either as a function of a role or as an individual.
• Relevant technical experience with the research areas.
• Team leadership / development
• Business systems: Must be competent with standard business systems such as Microsoft tooling etc
• Technical skills: Network protocol and OSI model knowledge
• Desirable
• Some of the key skills which are of interest to us for this role are:
• Mobile network protocols/architecture knowledge
• Engineering principles
• C and/or C++ Programming Experience
• Scripting Experience (Python/Perl etc)
• Low TRL research
• Source code review
• Reverse Engineering (x86/ARM/PowerPC/MIPS)
• Use of debugging tools (GDB/x64dbg/r2/windbg/frida)
• Use of disassemblers for reverse engineering (IDA/Ghidra)
• Project Management
• An understanding of planning and executing research topics as well as technical ability in the subject area.

Qualifications

• Essential
• Clearance: This role requires the candidate to hold and maintain a high level National Security clearance.
• Experience: Experience of undertaking research type activities either as a function of a role or as an individual.
• Relevant technical experience with the research areas.
• Team leadership / development
• Business systems: Must be competent with standard business systems such as Microsoft tooling etc
• Technical skills: Network protocol and OSI model knowledge
• Desirable
• Mobile network protocols/architecture knowledge
• Engineering principles
• C and/or C++ Programming Experience
• Scripting Experience (Python/Perl etc)
• Low TRL research
• Source code review
• Reverse Engineering (x86/ARM/PowerPC/MIPS)
• Use of debugging tools (GDB/x64dbg/r2/windbg/frida)
• Use of disassemblers for reverse engineering (IDA/Ghidra)
• Project Management
• An understanding of planning and executing research topics as well as technical ability in the subject area.
• Experience of undertaking research type activities either as a function of a role or as an individual.
• Network protocol and OSI model knowledge