Anti-Virus Automation Engineer
Iceland
Responsibilities: - Design and implement automation systems to improve threat detection speed and accuracy. - Create a cloud-based hash-check system for the Anti-Virus Engine. - Collaborate with Anti-Virus Lab to automate and streamline workflows.Key Contributions: - Architected and led development on a critical system in Cyren's threat automation backend. Highly distributed, automated detection system that improved speed and accuracy of threat detection. - Responsible for introducing “Confirmed clean” response in ThreatLookup services, offering customers greater assurance about the safety of files. - Established KPIs to monitor the health and progress of the system and identify areas for improvement. - Improved workflow for malware analysts and security researches by reducing repetitive and tedious tasks, freeing up time for more meaningful work. - Contributed to architecting and developing a data warehousing project to collect, structure and analyze large amounts of data to increase operational efficiency and enhance automatic threat detection. - Utilized data mining techniques to identify key trends and patterns to improve the backend systems. - Helped create a positive and productive work environment. - Developed a deep understanding of the OKR framework and applied it to track business goals and progress.Skills & Tools:- Operating Systems: Linux, MacOS- Tools/Methods: Ally, Confluence, Emacs, Jira, Salesforce, Agile Software Development, Kanban- Databases: MySQL, Redis, Couchbase, ElasticSearch- Tools/Frameworks: Grafana, Graphite, Kibana, Docker, Git, Gitlab, Logstash, Yara, Kafka, K8S (beginner), OpenAPI, RabbitMQ, Swagger- Programming Languages: Bash, C, Perl, Python, x86 Assembly, Go (beginner)