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F5 Security Research Manager Israel, Tel Aviv District, Tel Aviv-Yafo 427207084
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As the, you will lead a highly experienced team of researchers focused on web application security, threat intelligence, and detection development. You’ll play a dual role: providing hands-on technical direction in the analysis of web-based threats, and fostering a strong, collaborative team environment through effective leadership and mentorship. You’ll also work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure our WAF and security products are ahead of evolving threats.
Responsibilities:
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of expert security researchers.
- Provide technical guidance and review in areas such as web exploitation, WAF evasion, and threat intelligence.
- Oversee research into web frameworks, application servers, and modern attack vectors.
- Manage the development and continuous refinement of attack signatures to defend against evolving threats.
- Drive initiatives around Honeynet deployments, threat intelligence collection, and automated analysis tools.
- Coordinate vulnerability replication and PoC development for both internal testing and product validation.
- Build and maintain team infrastructure, tooling, and research pipelines.
- Promote collaboration between research and development teams to enhance product defenses.
- Represent the research team in strategic discussions, roadmap planning, and leadership forums.
- Contribute to thought leadership via blogs, reports, and security conference presentations.
Qualifications:
- At least 6 years of experience in web application security, with hands-on research or red-teaming background.
- Proven experience managing or leading a technical security team, with strong interpersonal and mentoring skills.
- Deep understanding of networking, HTTP protocol, web servers, and web application internals.
- Extensive experience analyzing and reproducing web application vulnerabilities.
- Practical knowledge of WAF evasion techniques and detection logic.
- Expertise in creating and analyzing attack signatures (e.g., regex, SNORT-style rules).
- Strong coding/scripting skills in Python, including building research and automation tools.
- Familiarity with threat intelligence techniques and sources (e.g., forums, CVEs, blogs, honeynets).
- Experience with security efficacy testing across WAFs, API protections, and other security products.
- Advantage: background in malware analysis or malicious script behavior.
- Advantage: knowledge of both front-end and back-end web development.
The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.
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