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
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.
Why you should join us
Operating as one Roke, there is a shared belief that everyone has a responsibility to create an environment that encourages you to bring your whole self to work; in a place where everyone has the time, trust and freedom to succeed.
We are committed to a policy of Equal Opportunity, Diversity and Inclusion. Our working environment is friendly, creative, inclusive and support a diverse work-force and those with additional needs.
Clearances
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.