http://www.virusbtn.com/library/feeds/jobs.rdfThe Virus Bulletin website provides news and information on viruses, spam, hoaxes, anti-virus products and general IT security related issues.Copyright 2004-2010, Virus Bulletin ltd.http://www.virusbtn.com/library/feeds/jobs.rdfhttp://www.virusbtn.com/images/vb_rss.gifen-GBwebmaster@virusbtn.comhttp://www.virusbtn.com/resources/jobs/job?id=366Sophos has been recognized as one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers for 2006-2011 as well as BC's Top 50 Employers from 2006 to 2012. As a global company, Sophos provides solutions that enable enterprises to secure and control their IT infrastructure. Sophos's network access control and endpoint solutions simplify security to provide an integrated defense against malware, spyware, intrusions, unwanted applications and policy abuse. Sophos complements these solutions with innovative email and web security products that filter traffic for security threats, spam and policy infringements. With over 20 years of experience, Sophos's reliably engineered security solutions and services protect more than 100 million users in over 140countries. Recognized for its high level of customer satisfaction, award-winning channel program, and powerful yet easy-to-use solutions, Sophos has an enviable history of industry awards, reviews and certifications. Sophos is headquartered in Boston, MA and Oxford, UK. More information is available at www.sophos.com. Role We’re looking for an energetic and experienced Threat Operations Manager for a team of computer Threat Researchers located in Vancouver, BC. The ideal candidate will have an operational background in computer security with experience in developing proactive approaches against file, web and spam threats. This manager will be responsible for developing and leading the general direction of the team in achieving departmental goals and objectives. You will be in charge of day to day responsibilities, organizing daily workflow, setting team objectives and managing priorities to make sure all employees are reaching their full potential. As a Threat Operations Manager you’ll have the responsibility for SophosLabs threat research operations in the region, ensuring timely protection available to our customers and optimizing our current team’s efficiency. Main duties Provide leadership for a team of Threat Researchers, particularly toward excellent customer response and highly effective, proactive detection. Plan, drive and track the processing of malware and spam samples and customer requests. Act as a problem domain expert on the subject of malware, spam and our detection technology. Contribute to the detection development work. Decide appropriate resourcing for workload including personnel, hardware, software and training needs based on Lab objectives. Analyse trends to ensure that analysis and requests are completed within agreed timescales and to the required quality. Work with peers within the department to plan changes and coordinate technical and system requirements and work plans. Ensure Sophos and SophosLabs standards/guidelines are adhered to and provide input into their improvement. Review short term SophosLabs processes with other SophosLabs managers and suggest improvements to methods. Responsible for hiring, managing technical skill levels to minimize single points of failure and personal development through the Individual Development Review process. Communicate frequently with staff through group meetings and individual sessions, ensuring issues and input from staff are listened to and that the company/department strategy/go18-05-2012http://www.virusbtn.com/resources/jobs/job?id=366http://www.virusbtn.com/resources/jobs/job?id=377*Perform leading edge malware research, analysis (data-mining) and generate content for use in our products *Enhance FireEye’s security content infrastructure, process workflow, and the malware intelligence portal *Run the FireEye’s security content release process, controlling content selection, packaging, and coordination with DEV/QA/Customer-Support teams09-05-2012http://www.virusbtn.com/resources/jobs/job?id=377http://www.virusbtn.com/resources/jobs/job?id=376Your responsibilities will include upkeep and maintenance of our existing Windows and ESX server systems as well as troubleshooting tasks. You will independently implement, conceptualise and co-ordinate IT-projects in Windows and ESX environments. Our challenges: You will manage and expand the existing AD/Exchange cluster infrastructure. You will support our team in the installation and administration of the Windows server 2003/2008 systems in use. The expansion and management of the global ESX cluster landscape will be your responsibility. You will plan and carry out the expansion of the existing storage environment. You will monitor existing system resources and initiate appropriate countermeasures. 350 domestic and international employees will benefit from your expertise in internal user support as part of third level support08-05-2012http://www.virusbtn.com/resources/jobs/job?id=376http://www.virusbtn.com/resources/jobs/job?id=375Your duties include maintenance and expansion of our existing Linux infrastructure in a hetrogeneous server landscape. You will independently implement IT projects in the Linux environment, in which respect, you will perform tasks relating to implementation, conception and coordination. Our challenges: You will administer and expand our existing Linux server landscape. You will manage the Linux server applications used (Samba, BIND, DHCP, Postfix, Dovecot, Apache). You will support our team in supervising the various systems and their applications using current analytic tools (Nagios, Cacti, tcpdump). You will be responsible for operation and maintenance of the various virtualisation environments (KVM, VMware, Xen). You will provide support in expansion and configuration of HA environments. 350 national/international employees will profit from your know-how with internal user support in 3rd level support.08-05-2012http://www.virusbtn.com/resources/jobs/job?id=375http://www.virusbtn.com/resources/jobs/job?id=374You will be responsible for creating new tools and programs that help to optimize, reorganize and automatize existing processes within the Avira Protection Labs. Your team consists of people that analyse malicious software samples and protect Avira customers from them on a daily base. They need your support in order to keep up with the ever-growing amount of those malicious files. You will create tools for them on request and work with them hand in hand on different technical challenges. Our challenges: Starting from day one you will be part of an international team whose objective is to keep Avira customers safe and free from malicious applications. Within this team you will analyse complex processes and improve them by suggesting new systems, programming new tools and implement new methods. Your tools will help the rest of the team to do their job in a more efficient way. Your usual work is based on requirements, but will also create smaller tools without any documentation based on what people tell you. Working on different projects excites you and you also enjoy working for different beneficiaries. You will exchange the knowledge and experience you gain to other team members on your team, you will also transfer it to new team members that might join the team afterwards.08-05-2012http://www.virusbtn.com/resources/jobs/job?id=374http://www.virusbtn.com/resources/jobs/job?id=373You will be responsible for the introduction and improvement of various cross-company projects. The project’s beneficiary is located in the Avira Protection Labs, a department consisting of more than 75 people in three locations worldwide and whose goal is the improvement of the detection ability of the Avira products to protect Avira customers from current malware and internet threats. You will be the interface between various people within the Avira Protection Labs but also to other departments within Avira such as development, web-development or global project management. Leading meetings, convincing teams of the right solution, optimize existing processes, collecting and presenting information and data from various people and guiding a project from the beginning until the go-live will be part of your key tasks. You also will be in charge of testing the project and make sure it is deliverable before it is handed over. You will keep close contact with our web development team located in Bucharest, Romania and are therefore willing to travel 1-2 weeks per month. To ensure that you have the necessary knowledge leading future projects, you will start with various trainings within the Avira Protection Labs to understand the workflows. You will learn and afterwards present your learning to a team; the topics will cover how we analyse malware, how we create detections and what key projects we use already. Parallel to your training, you will be assigned to your first project. You will quickly analyse the needs with the beneficiary and the necessary tasks that have to be done, execute them and bring the project to a successful release within your first three month in Avira. After you finished the training you will be assigned to a bigger project. You will face a variety of challenges such as cultural differences, different technical opinions and overall differences in style of working. You take a key role and identify yourself with the project, take the right decisions and even though many challenges will wait for you, you will bring the project to a success. You will keep the motivation in the development team as well as from the beneficiary on a high level, even though some of the people in the team might have chosen a different technical approach.08-05-2012http://www.virusbtn.com/resources/jobs/job?id=373http://www.virusbtn.com/resources/jobs/job?id=361Job Description Sr. Security Manager – Vulnerability Research Location: Santa Clara, CA About the Role: The Person that takes this role will be working within McAfee Labs to lead a team of world class security researchers and provide high quality security research result. This is a unique opportunity to influence and contribute to a critical part of the business that protects our customers. Specifically, the person will manage a global team that performs vulnerability research for network intrusion prevention, and host intrusion prevention products. The team is also responsible to create specific and behavioral signatures for these products. Another secondary focus area of this role is to provide insight into the threat landscape and competitive intelligence to the research team, and provide guidance on the roadmap of McAfee’s next generation security technology. Finally, the person will speak publicly and promote the research and technology of McAfee Labs. Key Responsibilities: • Lead the Vulnerability Research team and fulfill the following o Daily Root cause analysis on vulnerabilities, patch analysis o Research on new exploitation techniques and develop signatures for protection o Respond to new Cyber Threat, provide emergency response • Provide directions for new threat research and new security technology • Support security content delivery for HIPS and NIPS products .07-05-2012http://www.virusbtn.com/resources/jobs/job?id=361http://www.virusbtn.com/resources/jobs/job?id=372This position is for a strong developer with a passion for quality who will develop innovative security products. As a Principal Software Engineer you will architect, design, and develop industry leading Enterprise Security Software products. You will have the opportunity to work with a wide range of security products from all of the leading vendors and to work with the most advanced computing architectures to deliver high performance anti-virus solutions – on bare metal, in virtual environments, and in the cloud.04-05-2012http://www.virusbtn.com/resources/jobs/job?id=372http://www.virusbtn.com/resources/jobs/job?id=359Senior Anti-Malware Researcher McAfee believes that amazing things can be accomplished by diverse teams of talented individuals. Share your talents with us by joining the world’s largest dedicated security technology company. This opening is for Senior Anti-Malware Researcher position in the Anti-Malware Operations of McAfee Labs. McAfee Labs delivers proactive and proven solutions and services that secure systems and networks around the world, allowing users to browse and shop the web securely. With our unmatched security expertise and commitment to innovation, McAfee helps home users, businesses, the public sector, and service providers to comply with regulations, protect data, prevent disruptions, identify vulnerabilities, and continuously monitor and improve their security. Our products are unique in how they work together to make security affordable and manageable. These days, the threats are tougher, and the perpetrators are trickier. As we have for more than 20 years of experience, McAfee delivers superior protection that is trusted by millions of people. Primary Responsibilities: • Researching and analyzing a wide array of different malware and file formats. • Adding detection and repair as necessary for integration into the McAfee antivirus product line. • Authoring descriptions for inclusion into the McAfee Virus Information Library website. • Taking a broader look at malware evolution and devising innovative protection methods. • Performing peer reviews of code for release into production. • Self-motivated with the ability to stretch in times of crisis around virus outbreaks.01-05-2012http://www.virusbtn.com/resources/jobs/job?id=359http://www.virusbtn.com/resources/jobs/job?id=371Norman is looking for experienced coders/reverse engineers, with good knowledge in C and assembly (x86/x64). The ideal candidate has a strong interest in malware analysis and threat research. If you want to work in a fast paced environment, analyzing current and emerging threats, then we are interested in talking with you. Our team consists of smart, dedicated engineers who love reverse engineering and solve some of the toughest problems in the industry. Qualified candidates will work in the Sandbox Development Team, developing current and emerging emulator/virtualization technologies. Candidates will work closely with the Engine Development Team and Malware Analysis Team. The ideal candidate must excel in team environments and be extremely prolific, i.e. one who regularly produces high quality solutions in less time than his or her colleagues. This is a great opportunity for candidates motivated by working in a dynamic and challenging environment, where you will represent a recognized leader in proactive information security. You will get the chance to work with interesting projects, on a wide range of technical challenges. Norman ASA will be focusing on your talent, and want you to have the opportunity for further development.17-04-2012http://www.virusbtn.com/resources/jobs/job?id=371