Computer Network Operations (CNO) Engineer

Introduction
At IBM, work is more than a job – it’s a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you’ve never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world’s most challenging problems? If so, lets talk.

Your Role and Responsibilities
Randori, an IBM Company and the leading provider of external Attack Surface Management and Continuous Automated Red Teaming is looking for a Computer Network Operations Engineer to help lead and define, shape, and implement scalable software solutions for our Cyber Security platform. You’ll work with our red team, researchers, and developers to shape the direction of our products.

We are looking for individuals that are driven, proactive, thorough, and forward looking. You have at your fingertips a mastery of several programming languages and red-team technologies. You can debug something from layer 1 to 7 in the OSI Model and you’ve hacked your way through understanding more applications and devices than you can remember. You have the determination to grind through the pain, the patience to understand problems from first principles, and the ingenuity to make things work and develop tools where others would throw up their hands. You are a hacker, a tool builder, and an enabler.

Responsibilities of the Role:

• Solving problems that do not have known solutions
• Develop reusable CNO tooling and supporting capabilities
• Turn POCs and research capabilities produced by our research teams into production-ready capabilities for our platform
• Develop and executes plans for new technologies to enhance security capabilities including, perimeter security protections, firewalls, proxies, load balancers, monitoring tools, and data analytics and analysis within the bounds of our cloud infrastructure
• Verify the quality of CNO tools capabilities.
• Use your communication skills to work with a cross functional team
• Working with a wide variety of computing environments (Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, embedded systems) and development on Embedded systems/RTOS
• Working with business stakeholders to breakdown work
• Experience with agile development
• Detailed knowledge of operating system internals

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 5+ years’ experience in the CNO domain, including exploit development, implant development, and C2 tools
• Experience working with emulation technologies such as VMs, QEMU, and Docker
• Experience/understanding of network protocols (TCP/IP stacks, wire-level protocols, RF communications, BGP, routing protocols, or others)
• Experience working with C, assembly language (x86/64, ARM, PPC, Mips, etc) or debugging tools (WinDbg, gdb, lldb, OllyDbg)
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python and network or systems administration

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• 5+ years of experience in modern programming language (Go, Python, Ruby, or C++)
• Experience designing and implementing scalable large-scale SaaS based solutions
• Experience with cloud computing technologies such as GCP, AWS, Azure or Rackspace and work with Kubernetes for deployments, or similar on-premises solutions (such as Nomad, Minio)