Cybersecurity Researcher

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As a Cybersecurity Researcher you'll make, break, assure and secure systems across a variety of projects. You'll spend your time researching and characterising systems and technologies to understand how they work; and use your expertise to discover weaknesses and vulnerabilities in design or implementation and provide technical guidance to clients.

Roke is a leading technology & engineering company with clients spanning National Security, Defence and Intelligence; working alongside our customers to solve their complex and unique challenges by bringing the physical and the digital together.

As a Cybersecurity Researcher, you'll naturally be inquisitive and may have taken things apart in your spare time or have a broad understanding of how things work, which will have given you a good technical understanding. This will allow you to take a structured approach to decomposing complex systems and conduct innovative research.

The Key Requirements

You will likely have experience in some of the below areas:
Malware or firmware analysis and reverse engineering
Vulnerability analysis and/or exploitation development
Systems engineering and security models
Network architectures, protocol analysis or binary file format engineering
Processor architectures (x86-64 and ARM), operating systems and/or firmware internals.You will have likely used some of the below technologies:
IDA Pro or Ghidra for reverse engineering
Gdb, binary exploitation and code injection for debugging
Python, C or bash for programming, prototyping or tool-making
Wireshark for protocol analysis or AFL for fuzzing.Built over a 60-year heritage, Roke offers specialist knowledge in sensors, communications, cyber, and AI and ML. We change the way organisations think and act - through dynamic insights from the analysis of multiple layers of data. We take care of the innovative, technical stuff that keeps everyone safe - that's our mission, passion, and motivation.

Joining a team united by purpose and ambition, you'll be at the heart of an exciting growth journey: having doubled in size over the last 4 years, we intend to double our headcount by 2027. At Roke, every individual counts. We push technical boundaries, together. We re-invest in product innovation, and we empower our people to make a difference.

Where you'll work

GLOUCESTER - Alongside hybrid and flexible working options, you'll find our Gloucester site in a business park two minutes from junction 11A of the M5; The site allows easy access to our local customer base. Set on the outskirts of the Cotswolds, you are never far from a picturesque view or lunch time walk.

Clearance
Due to the nature of this role, we require you to be eligible to achieve DV clearance. As a result, you should be a British Citizen and have resided in the U.K. for the last 10 years.

The Next Step
Click apply, submitting an up-to-date CV. We look forward to hearing from you

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