Senior Cybersecurity Researcher

2 weeks ago

Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom National Physical Laboratory Full time
About the Role

This role will be part of a small team of Cybersecurity Researchers at the National Physical Laboratory, tackling some of the most interesting cyber problems with a meaningful and tangible impact on the national security of the UK. You will be instrumental in standing up an industry-leading security facility.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Conduct in-depth research and analysis of complex cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities.
  • Develop and implement effective security solutions and strategies to mitigate risks.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and prioritize security requirements.
  • Stay up-to-date with emerging cybersecurity trends and technologies.
  • Contribute to the development of security policies and procedures.

Requirements:

  • Experience in multiple cybersecurity roles and/or organizations.
  • An interest and aptitude for cybersecurity research (either from a professional background or by demonstrating an aptitude).
  • A passion for understanding how things work, testing them, pushing them to their limits, and finding security issues in them.
  • A deep understanding of hardware and software development lifecycles and their impact on security practices.
  • Applied knowledge of cryptographic algorithms and their uses (encryption, authentication, signatures, etc).
  • Knowledge of data structures, distributed systems, virtualization, and containerization technologies.
  • A deep understanding of network protocols and how software works from assembly through to interpreted languages, and everything in between.
  • Experience of leveraging vulnerabilities such as memory corruption bugs (stack/heap/integer overflows, format strings), and techniques to bypass common security protections (NX, stack canaries, heap protection, ASLR, etc.).
  • Knowledge and experience of embedded systems and operating systems, and hardware techniques for prototyping and debugging these.
  • Knowledge of Linux OS internals. Ability to self-learn any language, given appropriate resources to study and practice.
  • Practical knowledge of common white-hat exploitation toolsets and techniques for common flaws in low-level software, as well as web platforms (SQL injection, XSS, CSRF, SSRF, upload/download abuse, RCE).
  • Reverse engineering experience (IDA Pro, Ghidra).
  • Experience using debuggers such as GDB.

Security Clearance:

To work in this role, you will need to have an SC clearance with no restrictions, or you must have the ability to obtain an SC clearance.

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