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SECURITYFOCUS JOBS - NEW OPPORTUNITY
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JOB DESCRIPTION
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Position: Security Engineer
Location: Campbell, California, US
Type: Permanent F/T
Closing Date: 04/17/2005
Stateful Firewall, TCP/IP Implementation
Ideal candidate should have expert knowledge of the TCP protocol. Requires
knowledge with rewriting a fast TCP stack to reconstruct (follow) a TCP stream.
Knowledge of IP reassembly, issues related to attacks on IP reassembly.
Required skills:
M.S. in Computer Science/EE
Knowledge in TCP/IP stacks, from Layer 3 to Layer 7 protocols.
Knowledge in IP service protocols (DNS, DHCP)
Knowledge of Linux OS, communication protocols, data flow architectures.
Knowledge in stateful firewall design and implementation.
Knowledge of firewall and VPN protocols (NAT, IPSec, IKE)
Knowledge with multithreaded software and multiprocessing
Knowledge with network processor programming
Knowledge in decoding application protocols from packet traces
Knowledge in protocol decoding tools (Ethereal, Sniffer Pro, Appera)
The candidate should have knowledge in decoding of application protocols. A
sample of protocols includes:
Instant messaging (AOL IM, Yahoo IM, MSN Messenger)
Authentication algorithms (Radius, LDAP, KERB, Rlogin)
File transfer protocols (FTP)
Application Gateway (ALG)
Must be a self-starter and must be comfortable working with small teams of
senior engineers. Must have good verbal and written communications skills.
Access Control & Policy Management
Ideal candidate should have in-depth development knowledge of access control
and policy enforcement applications. In depth development knowledge of Firewall
and ACL configuration. Development knowledge on enforcing firewall policies on
the data plane. Responsibilities include architecting policy definition
language, define network policies, Compiling the policies into actionable
events, and enforcing on those events. Should be familiar with efficient policy
look up methodologies.
Required skills:
B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science/EE
Experience in TCP/IP stacks, from Layer 3 to Layer 4 protocols.
Experience in defining and implementing complex policy definition
infrastructures required.
Experience with multithreaded software and multiprocessing is necessary
Experience with network processor programming is a plus
Knowledge of Linux OS, communication protocols, data flow architectures.
Must be a self-starter and must be comfortable working with small teams of
senior engineers. Must have a track record of shipping product into production
networks.. Must have good verbal and written communications skills.
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer (Automation & L2)
The QA Engineer is responsible for verifying & validating the features of the
product and in ensuring that it meets requirements. The position is responsible
for developing software tests, test strategies, and test tools for the
switching and management system features. It is also expected that the QA
engineer stays up to date with current networking and security technologies,
methods, and procedures.
Skill Requirements:
B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science/EE
Strong knowledge in test automation
Strong knowledge in scripting languages (Tcl/Expect, sh)
Strong knowledge in programming network testing tools such IXIA SmartBits
Strong knowledge of Ethernet (MAC, VLANs, 802.1p, 802.1d, bridging)
Experience of network protocol testing – TCP/IP, Ethernet
Experience of servers, operating systems including Linux, Windows
Experience with network testing and monitoring tools such as Ixia or SmartBits
Desirable to have knowledge of security testing – IDS, Firewall, ACL
Primary Responsibilities
Define test automation guidelines
Develop automation test tools, tests and test strategies to verify the software
meets or exceeds design guidelines.
Integrate network testing tools scripting library for test automation
Execute tests to verify the validity of the software.
Analyze results and produce publishable reports.
Support team members to automate their tests
Working closely with development and product marketing to help define the test
strategy, analyzing problems and generating problem reports
Setup and maintain any automation and regression test beds
Tracking and trending system and software quality across various release cycles
Carry out competitive tests and analysis on competitive products
Must be a self-starter and must be comfortable working with small teams of
senior engineers. Must have a track record of shipping product into production
networks. Must have good verbal and written communications skills.
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer (Network Management System)
The QA Engineer is responsible for verifying & validating the features of the
product and in ensuring that it meets requirements. The position is responsible
for developing software tests, test strategies, and test tools for the
management system features. It is also expected that the QA engineer stays up
to date with current networking and security technologies, methods, and
procedures.
Skill Requirements:
B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science/EE
Experience in client server based network security or management applications
testing
Experience in GUI applications, applets and webstart applications testing
Experience in test automation languages (Perl/Tcl/Expect and
SilkTest/WinRunner)
Experience of SNMP v1, v2c, v3
Experience of servers, operating systems including Linux, Windows
Knowledge of RDBMS (Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL, Solid, PostgresSQL)
Knowledge of SQL
Knowledge of XML
Desirable to have experience in J2EE application servers (JBoss, WebLogic,
Websphere)
Desirable to have knowledge of security testing
Primary Responsibilities
Define testing guidelines based upon product’s model.
Develop software tests, test strategies, and test tools to verify the software
meets or exceeds design guidelines.
Execute tests to verify the validity of the software.
Analyze results and produce publishable reports.
Automate tests.
Writing and executing test plans for functional, system, and performance of the
Software Features.
Working closely with development and product marketing to help define the test
strategy, analyzing problems and generating problem reports
Setup and maintain the test infrastructure and facilities including any
automation and regression test beds
Tracking and trending system and software quality across various release cycles
Carry out competitive tests and analysis on competitive products
Must be a self-starter and must be comfortable working with small teams of
senior engineers. Must have a track record of shipping product into production
networks. Must have good verbal and written communications skills.
Release and Test Engineer
Ideal candidate should have in-depth knowledge of software configuration
management, and knowledge in testing malware.
Required skills:
M.S. in Computer Science/EE
Knowledge in CVS on UNIX and Windows platforms
Knowledge in GNU tools (gcc, make)
Knowledge in scripting languages (Tcl, bash, sh, expect, perl)
Knowledge in SCM for large software
Knowledge in software build and release processes
Knowledge in network and system administration
Knowledge in network security
Knowledge in setup of development, laboratory and test networks
Knowledge of Ethernet (MAC, VLANs, 802.1p, 802.1d, bridging)
Knowledge of Intrusion Detection, Vulnerability Assessment and other worm
prevention technologies
Knowledge of servers, operating systems including Linux, Windows
Other Primary Responsibilities
Define testing guidelines based upon product’s model.
Develop software tests, test strategies, and test tools to verify the software
meets or exceeds design guidelines.
Execute tests to verify the validity of the software.
Analyze results and produce publishable reports.
Automate tests.
Writing and executing test plans for functional, system, and performance of the
Software Features.
Working closely with development and product marketing to help define the test
strategy, analyzing problems and generating problem reports
Setup and maintain the test infrastructure and facilities including any
automation and regression test beds
Tracking and trending system and software quality across various release cycles
Carry out competitive tests and analysis on competitive products
Must be a self-starter and must be comfortable working with small teams of
senior engineers. Must have good verbal and written communications skills.
System Services
Ideal candidate should have expert knowledge in platform and device driver
level software development.
Required skills:
B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science/EE
Expertise in inter-processing communication, process signals and CPU exception
handling
Experience with flash devices, PCMCIA, real-time clock, NTP, CPU watchdogs
Experience with multi-processing
Knowledge of Linux OS, device drivers
Experience with multithreaded software is a plus. Knowledge of PowerPC is a
plus.
Must be a self-starter and must be comfortable working with small teams of
senior engineers. Must have a track record of shipping product into production
networks. Must have good verbal and written communications skills.
L7 Protocol & Application Decode
Ideal candidate should have expert knowledge of the application protocols over
TCP/IP.
Required skills:
B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science/EE
Expertise in TCP/IP stacks
Expertise in Layer 7 application protocols.
Knowledge with multi-processing.
Knowledge of Linux OS, communication protocols, data flow architectures.
The sought after candidate will have experience in decoding of application
protocols or implementation of applications. A sample of applications and
protocols include:
Instant messaging (AIM, Yahoo IM, MSN Messenger)
File systems (Samba, CIFS, NFS)
Microsoft NTLM/Active Directory Decode
Web protocols (HTTP, XML, Web Services)
Enterprise application protocols (MS SQL SAP R/3, Oracle)
Peer-to-Peer protocols (Kazaa, eDonkey2000, BitTorrent)
VoIP, Streaming Audio, Streaming Video
Experience with multithreaded software and multiprocessing is highly desirable.
Experience with network processor programming is a plus.
Must be a self-starter and must be comfortable working with small teams of
senior engineers. Must have a track record of shipping product into production
networks. Must have good verbal and written communications skills.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
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CONTACT
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Raj Khanna
Sr. Account Executive
SearchTech Solutions
raj@stecs.com
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