Senior Cybersecurity Specialist

3 days ago


Annapolis Junction, Maryland, United States Nightwing Full time
Job Summary

Nightwing is seeking a highly skilled Senior CNO Developer to join our team. As a Senior CNO Developer, you will be responsible for analyzing systems to understand how they work and how they behave when they break.

You will play a key role in developing and defeating new and advanced security techniques, working closely with customer stakeholders to drive requirements for small to medium-sized projects. Your expertise will be essential in taking systems apart and building new ones, with a typical day involving studying disassembly or writing Python to audit a piece of C++ code.

Key Responsibilities
  • Analyze systems to understand how they work and how they behave when they break
  • Develop and defeat new and advanced security techniques
  • Work closely with customer stakeholders to drive requirements for small to medium-sized projects
  • Take systems apart and build new ones
  • Study disassembly and write Python to audit a piece of C++ code
Requirements

Typically requires a Bachelor's Degree, or 4 years' equivalent experience, and Minimum 8 (eight) years' experience in Assembly, C, C++, or Python.

Active and transferable U.S. government issued TS/SCI with polygraph security clearance is required prior to start date.

U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

Desired Skills
  • Understanding of OS Internals (i.e. Windows, Linux, iOS, Android)
  • Experience with Vulnerability Research
  • Experience reading or writing assembly (x86, x64, ARM, PPC, MIPS, SPARC, 68k, or others)
  • Experience developing embedded systems
  • Understanding of network protocols (TCP/IP stacks, wire-level protocols, RF communications, BGP, routing protocols, or others)
  • Understanding of exploit mitigations such as DEP and ASLR
  • Experience using reverse engineering tools such as IDA Pro, HexRays, Ghidra, Binary Ninja, or objdump.
  • Experience using debuggers such as gdb, WinDbg, OllyDbg
  • Experience with BDI/JTAG
  • Experience with modern C++ development, such as RAII, C++11 and C++14.
  • Experience building and using tools to find, exploit, and productize vulnerabilities in complex software systems
  • Experience with technical leadership
What We Offer

Nightwing offers a total rewards package that goes above and beyond with compensation; healthcare, wellness, retirement and work/life benefits; career development and recognition programs.

Some of the benefits we offer include parental (including paternal) leave, flexible work schedules, achievement awards, educational assistance and child/adult backup care.

As a Nightwing employee, you will have the opportunity to work alongside talented individuals who are passionate about what they do. Together, we'll leverage our collective expertise to drive innovation, solve complex problems, and deliver exceptional results for our clients.

About Nightwing

Nightwing is a leading provider of cybersecurity, intelligence, and services offerings to the U.S. government. With a deep set of credentials and an unfaltering commitment to the mission, we've been providing some of the world's most technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operations, systems integration and intelligence support services for over four decades.

We value collaboration and teamwork, and we're committed to delivering exceptional results for our clients. If you're passionate about cybersecurity and intelligence, and you're looking for a challenging and rewarding career opportunity, we encourage you to apply for this role.



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