Senior Security Researcher (Global Security)

Royal Bank of Canada • Toronto, ON

11d • Onsite

About The Position

RBC's Security Research & Innovation team is responsible for researching threats to the organization and its clients and employees and designing solutions and techniques for countering these threats. We are a team of experienced and enthusiastic security experts, researchers, developers, and innovators that are passionate about envisioning novel solutions to complex cyber security and digital crime problems. We take ideas through the full lifecycle of research, experimentation, development, and deployment to build solutions in areas where security vendors are one step behind. We leverage cutting edge cloud devops, AI/ML, and security analysis technology to reduce risk to our organization, employees, and clients.
We’re looking for an experienced Senior Security Researcher who is constantly thinking outside the box, ready to dive deep into the smallest details, is passionate about cybersecurity and has a natural detective sense. The right candidate has experience in both security research/operations and development and enjoys innovation and applying a creative mindset to Cyber and Digital crime problems.

Requirements

• 5+ years of Cyber Security operations experience preferably comprised of both defensive and offensive roles
• Strong Innovative and outside of the box thinking mindset
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Strong and provable skills in Python development
• Experience applying operational security considerations to security research activity
• Hands-on experience in malware analysis, reverse engineering, or other security research niches
• Familiarization with the cyber security Kill Chain phases and MITRE ATT&CK framework TTPs
• Knowledge of offensive security tools, techniques, and procedures
• Solid grasp of cyber security controls/products including both endpoint, network, application, and infrastructure
• Well-rounded knowledge of various cyber security domains, focusing on operational security
• Knowledge of current regional and global threat landscape

Nice To Haves

• Experience leveraging Machine Learning models and/or AI technology against cyber security problems
• Cloud DevOps experience of one or more leading cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Financial industry experience or previous experience working for a cyber security team or security vendor
• Experience participating in threat intelligence sharing groups, associations, or forums
• Strong understanding of computing architecture, OS Internals and CPU architectures
• Additional programming languages such as Javascript and front-end frameworks
• Digital Forensics skills including memory/network/OS/disk forensics
• Defensive oriented certification such as GIAC GREM, GCFA or other reputable, technical, and defensive/offensive focused certification

Responsibilities

• Research and maintain subject matter expertise relating to threats in the cyber and digital crime domains
• Prototype and iterate on security solutions using modern application development methodologies
• Ideate and experiment with techniques and methodologies for countering digital crime activity
• Contribute to the evolution of existing in-house developed security products and solutions
• Collaborate and foster relationships with multiple teams including Adversary Emulation (Red Team), Data Science, Threat Intelligence, Security Operation Center (SOC) and Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) to drive pragmatic cyber security improvement
• Take a lead in developing, implementing, and refining our defensive tradecraft and tooling
• Provide bespoke advisory and consultation services to senior executive management and perform as a cyber security SME for emerging threats and investigations
• Integrate and utilize a wide range of data sources, data lakes and third-party security solutions
• Leverage current AI and ML techniques and technologies to bring force multiplication to our efforts

Benefits

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable
• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
• Flexible work/life balance options
• Opportunities to do challenging work
• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities
• Opportunities to building close relationships with clients

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed