Information Security Engineer

Are you passionate about the changing threat landscape, love the challenge of understanding how the latest malware works, and can evangelize the risks and issues across a broad organization? Are you looking for a challenging leadership position that will allow you to shape the future of security across the Internet? Do you thrive on working with a close-knit, highly motivated team?

Come join Lancope's threat intelligence team to help protect Lancope's customers against cyber-attacks. The successful candidate will join a global team of senior security analysts focusing ways to improve the state of Threat Intelligence by supplying meaningful context. This position requires a professional with a mixture of strong development and investigative skills. The team will source data across Lancope, i.e. internal product and traffic monitoring groups, external partner and qualified third-party relationships, and original research.

Lancope is looking for a full time Information Security Engineer for Lancope's Threat Intelligence Team. Analysts in this role will have experience in threat research and a desire to own innovative ideas from invention, through proof-of-concept, and to deployment.

Main Responsibilities

* Develop and manage new tools, or existing tools where appropriate to provide useful context around public IP addresses (e.g. companies using an IP, services running on it, etc) within Lancope's products

* Maintain the relevance and accuracy of collected and contextualized information

* Act as a point of escalation for internal and external questions about the provided data

Desired Skills and Experience

* At least 2 years relevant experience in:
Network administration, System administration (Windows or Unix)

* Strong knowledge of the technology that makes the Internet work (e.g. ASNs, DNS, IP addressing, CDNs, etc)

* Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals, software engineering

* Knowledge of one or more programming/scripting languages

* Log and data analysis

* Strong written and verbal communication

* Self-motivated and highly ambitious

* Creative problem solving skills and excellent troubleshooting/debugging skills

* Excellent teamwork and people skills

* Ability to manage multiple tasks and work towards long-term goals

* Ability to communicate and work well with remote team members

* Incident response experience a definitive plus