Security Researcher Ref. 3273
2 months ago
Hours: Full-time, Part-time and compressed hours. This role is primarily office based and there will be limited opportunities for working remotely or from home.
About Us
MI5 keeps the country safe from serious threats like terrorism and attempts by states to harm the UK, its people and way of life. We carry out investigations by obtaining, analysing and assessing intelligence, and then work with a range of partners, including MI6 and GCHQ to disrupt these threats. Through our protective security arm, we provide advice and guidance to government, businesses and other organisations about how to keep themselves safe. A role in MI5 means you’ll do unique and challenging work in a supportive and encouraging environment, making a real difference to UK national security.
The Role
As a Security Researcher, you’ll be developing capabilities to collect cyber intelligence from computers and devices that are critical to MI5’s ability to safeguard the UK.
You’ll join our Cyber Collections team, where you’ll help advance our intelligence investigations and tackle serious threats to national security. You’ll focus on a particular technology area, working to ensure we can continue our important work, despite any threat. You’ll also research and develop new cutting-edge techniques to increase our unique capabilities. To do so, you’ll develop a deep understanding of the various applications and operating systems used by the subjects of our intelligence investigations.
Day-to-day you could be searching for new vulnerabilities within target operating systems and applications, or working up exploits to other vulnerabilities found within the community. You might also be researching novel techniques to avoid detection or helping with the general development of our on-device collection capabilities, or assisting with the onboarding of new capabilities or techniques. Ongoing development is an important part of the day-to-day, and continuous development is highly valued.
About You
You’ll have a solid background in security research or reverse engineering, and you’ll bring extensive knowledge of a specific operating system’s internals (e.g. Windows, Linux, Android, iOS or MacOS). Additionally, you work constructively in a team environment, are an adept problem solver, and are comfortable with managing uncertainty and risk.
You’ll have a sound grasp of networking fundamentals, and you’re familiar with how computers and devices communicate over the Internet (e.g. TCP/IP, etc). As a proficient independent programmer, you can work with low-level systems programming languages (e.g. C/C++, Rust, etc.) and higher-level application languages (e.g. Python, Java, etc). You’re also familiar with a range of vulnerability classes, including memory and logic vulnerabilities, as well as common exploitation techniques against specific operating systems or architectures.
Training and Development
The ongoing learning and development of our security research colleagues is important to our mission.
That’s why we’ll invest in your skills and give you access to a range of internal and external courses that support your ongoing development. We’ll also encourage you to develop your understanding of technologies outside of those you’re immediately working on, as we need a blend of skills and knowledge across a wide range of areas. There are also opportunities to attend external workshops and conferences, including with our international partners, to support your training and development.
Rewards and Benefits
The starting salary for this role is £48,928. This is a role that qualifies for a specialist capability-based pay approach that recognises and rewards cyber technical specialist expertise. Therefore, based on our assessment of skills and experience at interview, you may be eligible for additional skills payment, potentially increasing the salary to between £57,362 and £61,732.
To retain the higher salary, you will need to demonstrate and accredit your skills based on our Cyber Technical Framework, within the first year of employment. If you are unable to evidence the required skills, you will be given the opportunity and support to achieve this. If this is not achieved by the end of your first year of employment, your pay may revert to a lower level, within the stated range.
As you develop, grow and maintain your technical skills, you will have the opportunity to progress through a further pay point at this grade. You will be able to apply for recognition that your skills have reached a higher level at regular intervals, when you and your line manager deem you are ready.
Other benefits include:
- 25 Days Annual Leave automatically rising to 30 days after 5 years' service, and an additional 10.5 days public and privilege holidays
- Opportunities to be recognised through our employee performance scheme
- Personal Learning Budget
- Interest-free season ticket loan
- Excellent pension scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Facilities such as a gym, restaurant, and on-site coffee bars (at some locations)
- Paid parental and adoption leave
Equal Opportunities
At MI5 diversity and inclusion are critical to our mission. To protect the UK, we need a truly diverse workforce that reflects the society we serve. This includes diversity in every sense of the word: those with different backgrounds, ages, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, ways of thinking and those with disabilities or neurodivergent conditions. We therefore welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including those from groups that are under-represented in our workforce such as women, those from an ethnic minority background, people with disabilities and those from low socio-economic backgrounds.
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