Technical Cyber Threat Investigator (Sunnyvale or NYC)

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Technical Cyber Threat Investigator (Sunnyvale or NYC)

Sunnyvale, CA
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    This role will be based in either Sunnyvale or New York, depending on which city the applicant chosen for the role is currently residing

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    This Technical Cyber Threat Investigator will play a key role in the organization by gathering intelligence on and investigating various types of online threats.   

    The successful candidate will have a strong background in technical investigations into E-Crimes activity, online exploits, member data scraping, risks, and understanding the threat landscape. This is a great opportunity for an experienced professional seeking a career with an amazing company.

    PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

    • Investigate research, gather electronic evidence, and resolve internal and external issues related to various threats against LinkedIn and our members.
    • Analyze and identify fraudulent activity based on actionable intelligence leads.
    • Effectively recognize threats by performing relevant research and data analysis.
    • Recognize opportunities for addressing fraud issues, risks, and exposures.
    • Collaborate with cross functional groups such as legal, product, marketing, customer advocacy, and security engineering to enhance processes, workflows, tools and system functionality.
    • Produce high quality detailed documentation to internal and external parties while managing sensitive or confidential information.
    • Attend ongoing industry working groups and trainings on relevant subject areas.   
    • Ability to work extended or non-traditional hours on occasion to support emergency situations.

      

    BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

    • Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice, Computer Science or other relevant field.
    • 1+ year of experience in one or more of the following areas:  fraud investigations, computer forensics, intelligence collection and analysis, threat-actor attribution research, audit, risk management
    • Experience with web development technologies

     

    PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

    • E-Crimes investigations and/or intelligence analysis experience.
    • Possess an investigative mindset
    • JavaScript and HTML programming skills
    • Experience with chrome developer tools and firebug.
    • Experience with the review and moderation of user-generated content.
    • Experience in the development of browser extensions.
    • Experience using HTTP proxies such as Burp or Paros as well as identifying modifications to user agents and DOM inspection.
    • Experience with producing high quality detailed documentation to internal and external customers while managing sensitive or confidential information.
    • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
    • Ability to work under pressure and with tight deadlines