About the Role

Vectra AI’s Security Research Team represents the core security knowledge and research capability within the company – tasked with powering our groundbreaking technologies and aiding customers. This Senior Security Researcher, focusing in Identity and SaaS, is based in Dublin, Ireland as part of a global highly qualified team, reporting into the Senior Director, Security Research in Canada. In this role, you are a respected authority on security threats and attack techniques. Everyone has direct impact on the direction of the company by researching threats and understanding how they appear in the cloud (Identity, SaaS). You perform leading edge security research to understand and communicate the major attacker methodologies and threat models within specific cloud and identity technology, shaping the overall product direction for that area of focus, guiding prioritisation of detection development, working as a team to develop the detection capabilities that protect our customers.

Vectra offers you the opportunity to be on the forefront of cyber security – helping us grow a world-renowned security research organisation. 

At a Glance

As the researcher tasked with inventing and improving cloud focused security detection technologies, an integral part of our success. You are expected to research new security topics, engage in bug-hunts, develop new tactics and techniques relevant to our product areas, and contribute to the community in a way that helps grow both your personal and company brands.

• Identify and develop a deep expertise of cyber threats facing cloud-enabled organizations to shape the product direction and research focus of the team
• Apply your expert insights and experience to research, develop, and classify new threats, detection capabilities, and related mitigation techniques
• Collaborate across Vectra to develop new detection models – working hand-in-hand with members of the data science and engineering teams
• Pursue security research topics that contribute to the knowledge about and enumeration of new threats
• Provide an attackers-eye-view to the evidence presented by Vectra products and educate customers to the technical nature of the threat

Sounds like this could be a match? We are looking forward to receiving your application!

What Will Impress Us

• You have a strong background in securing or threat detection in EntraID, Okta, M365, or other Cloud Identity Service Providers or Enterprise SaaS services with a deep understanding of threat models and attacker methodologies in these environments
• Working experience in areas of security research, malware analysis, or cloud security architecture/development/analysis
• Solid grasp of cloud systems and security concepts for SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, including their respective threat models and risks
• Solid Attack and penetration testing experience; or incident response and threat analysis experience
• Knowledge of exploitation techniques!
• Knowledge of corporate security investigation and incident response processes, along with threat detection, mitigation technologies
• Solid programming skills with scripting languages such as Python and query languages like KQL/SQL/Presto
• Professional or academic research in advanced security threats, particularly against cloud environments
• Operational experience in InfoSec as an incident handler, administrator, or internal consultant
• Experience with big data technologies such as Azure ADX, Amazon Redshift or Athena, Hadoop, Spark
• Participating in broader infosec community with requisite contacts and access to external intelligence sources
• Understanding the lifecycle and economics of modern malware and advanced threats
• Strong problem solving, troubleshooting and analysis skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent inter-personal and teamwork skills
• Proactive, hard-working team player with a good sense of humour