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