Cyber Security Research Engineer

Short company description

BIT SENTINEL is one of the leading companies in Central and Eastern Europe to provide Managed Cyber Security services, Offensive Security, Compliance, and Hacking Simulation Services.

The BIT SENTINEL Security Operation Center (BSS-CERT) is an effective and efficient solution designed, operated, and managed by experienced and certified security specialists providing offensive and defensive capabilities through the detection, analysis, and remediation of cyber threats.

Since it was founded, the BIT SENTINEL team focused on providing premium and high-quality offensive security services such as advanced black box and white box penetration testing, application code review, forensics, and incident response.

BSS-CERT is one of the first professional SOC-as-a-Service available for customers across all major verticals and industries who need comprehensive monitoring, detection, response, and threat intelligence capabilities. The Security Operation Center currently operates under normal business hours in Bucharest, Romania, with the capability to be extended on a 24/7 monitoring, depending on customers needs.

Job description:

We are looking for a passionate cyber security research engineer to join our fast growing team. We believe it’s essential to have a continuous drive for self improvement and self motivation.
As a Cyber security research engineer, you will be an important asset for the BSS-CERT where you will perform various R&D activities including threat hunting, malware analysis and automation.

Duties and Responsibilities

Main responsibilities

  • You will participate in various Research and Development activities
  • You will be involved in Threat Hunting activities
  • You will analyse different attacks, threats, incidents, vulnerabilities and malware families
  • You will come up with ideas to automate and integrate security tools
  • You will either assist or perform constant risk assessments, threat modeling, privacy assessments and information security reviews for new and our existing customers
  • You will work with honeypots but also commercial detection tools
  • You will research and develop new playbooks, runbooks and automation
  • You will work on special R&D security projects on an ad hoc basis
  • You will need to communicate, lead and support your colleagues with information security best practices
  • You will have to keep up to date with existing security threats and evolve network security posture accordingly

Requirements and Qualifications

  • 1-3 years of experience in IT&C; 
  • Good understanding of network services, vulnerabilities and attacks;
  • Good knowledge of Bash (Unix shell) scripting, Python, Powershell, Docker
  • Good understanding of automation 
  • Familiarity with general application and network security concepts 
  • Strong organizational skills and detail-oriented
  • Strong presentation, written and verbal communication skills
  • Self-starter, doesn’t want to be micromanaged
  • Excellent team player

Good to have:

  • Previous Knowledge working with Suricata, Snort, Cuckoo, or honeypots
  • Cyber Security Certifications
  • Previous Capture the Flag experience to international and national events such as UNbreakable Romania, ROCSC, DefCamp

Benefits package:

  • Attractive compensation package: fixed salary compensation along with rewards & incentives performance-related bonus scheme  
  • Premium Private health insurance for your and one family member
  • Meal tickets
  • An exciting career in a dynamic, growing organization with a very diverse portfolio 
  • Professional and friendly working environment
  • Professional development through specific trainings/certification
  • Certification courses and exams compensation
  • Work from Home / work from office options available 
  • Seasonal team building activities 
  • Gift vouchers
  • Excellent job perspective for the future
  • And many more

Other info:

Besides providing cyber security services & advisory for companies from different sectors such as Fintech, Healthcare, Real Estate, Retail, Ecommerce, Online, Startups, Blockchain, Critical Infrastructures etc. we are also:

  • Creator and Maintainer of Cyberedu.ro, Next-gen hands-on trainings for students & cybersecurity professionals
  • Co-founder and tech lead of UNbreakable Romania
  • Technical coordinator for the National Phase & Selection of National Teams of European Cyber Security Challenge, one of the most important cybersecurity competitions from Europe
  • Developer & Technical Coordinator of Business Internet Security Threat Map, a technology developed by us for Orange Romania that presents the visualization from a high overview perspective of the data gathered from the Orange Romania Business Internet Security agents deployed across Romania
  • Involved as one of the key technical partners from the RESISTO project: an innovative solution for Communication CIs holistic situation awareness and enhanced resilience

How to contact us

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