Cloud Security Researcher

Description

Job Description

Who is Tenable?

Tenable® is an Exposure Management company. 40,000 organizations around the globe rely on Tenable to understand and reduce cyber risk. Our global employees support 60 percent of the Fortune 500, 40 percent of the Global 2000, and large government agencies. Come be part of our journey!

Tenable Cloud Security was born out of the acquisition of Ermetic, an innovative cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) company, and a leading provider of CIEM. The acquisition marks an important milestone in Tenable’s mission to shift organizations to proactive security and deliver market-leading contextual risk visibility, prioritization and remediation across infrastructure and identities, both on-premises and in the cloud.

What makes Tenable such a great place to work?

Ask a team member, and they’ll answer, “Our people!” We work together to build and innovate best-in-class cybersecurity solutions for our customers, all while creating a culture of belonging, respect, and excellence where we can be our best selves. When you’re part of our #OneTenable team, you can expect to partner with some of the most talented and passionate people in the industry, and have the support and resources you need to do work that truly matters. We deliver results that exceed expectations and we win together!

Your Opportunity

Tenable Cloud Security is seeking a cloud security researcher to join our talented team of folks who live and breathe cloud security. The job includes researching the cloud’s different assets, roles, relations, and configurations to lead innovation and problem-solving, build strategies for attacking and defending cloud environments, and foster a profound understanding.

You will work closely with the product and engineering teams to ensure that our deep understanding of cloud security translates into value and features to secure Tenable Cloud Security’s customers.

Furthermore, you will be in charge of fostering technical expertise and innovation. You will present your novel work at conferences and author papers and blogs.

If you’re a curious, creative, technical person with strong systemic thinking and a passion for taking things apart and understanding how they work, we encourage you to apply.

Your Role

• Serve as a technical leader and contributor for a research team exploring emerging cloud technologies and services
• Conduct technical research on cloud platforms to yield new insights, theories, analyses, data, algorithms, and prototypes
• Follow emerging security trends and threats, author blogs about novel cloud research, and deliver content to customers and the cloud security community
• Work closely with the product and engineering teams to solve difficult problems and lead innovation in the product
  
  

What You'll Need

• 5+ years of experience in security research, vulnerability research, threat research, cloud R&D, or offensive security
• Data analysis and coding skills
• Strong communication skills – written and verbal
• Highly motivated, great self-learner, curious, responsible and independent
  
  

And Ideally

• B.Sc. or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent professional background
• Experience with and knowledge of cloud environment architecture (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Threat intelligence, red team, or incident response experience
• Experience with Kubernetes and container technology
• Experience with data/security analysis
• Knowledge of OS Internals
• Web exploitation experience
• Reverse Engineering experience
  
  

If you’ve reached this point, and you’re still not sure if you should apply…..Just do it! We’re human and we don’t fit a perfect mold. Having diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspectives, that’s a good thing! If you’re coming from outside of the cyber industry - great! If you’re looking to try something new - awesome! All we ask is you bring passion to all that you do, crave creativity and innovation, and embrace the hard work of gaining new skills and accepting big challenges.

We’re committed to promoting Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) at Tenable - through all equal employment opportunity laws and regulations at the international, federal, state and local levels. If you need a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please contact