Bank Of America Vice President Malware Analysis Cyber Threat Defense 

Australia, New South Wales, Sydney 

917850832

Job Description:

The VP: Malware Analysis role undertakes incident response activities with a primary focus on Malware analysis.

What you will do

• Perform both static and dynamic analysis of Malware to extract IoCs and identify Malware family.
• Proactively respond to and disrupt actions by threat actors, mitigating potential threats.
• Conduct in-depth analysis of various Malware alerts and associated events.
• Reverse engineer the latest Malware and produce comprehensive deep-dive analysis reports.
• Perform disk based and memory-based analysis of systems.
• Execute and improve relevant risk management strategies.
• Perform real-time analysis and trending of security log data from various security devices and systems.
• Maintain data sources feeding the log monitoring system, develop and maintain detection and alerting rules.
• Respond to user incident reports and evaluate the type and severity of security events.
• Execute initial triage of incidents to rule out false positives.
• Identify recurring security issues and risks and develop mitigation plans and recommend process improvements.
• Interpret and apply security policies and procedures.
• Establish escalation processes for security incidents and develop contingency plans and disaster recovery procedures.

Your background

• Direct experience of analyzing Malware within Banking, Critical Infrastructure, Big Tech, or Vendors
• Solid understanding of dynamic/static analysis of Malware.
• Background in network traffic analysis related to Malware.
• Experience in encryption/obfuscation and how to reverse engineer the same.
• Experience of creating innovative ways to track progression of Malware families, infrastructure and campaigns conducted by various threat actors.
• GCIH, GREM, GCFA, CISSP or CCSP desirable
• Knowledge of networking protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPs, FTP, etc.
• Ability to create scripts and other forms of automation.
• Excellent communication skills, able to adapt a message to various audiences.
• Knowledge/experience of at least one major cloud services provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) technologies