Senior Software Development Engineer Job in Bangalore, Karnataka India
About the Role and Responsibilities
Location: Bangalore, India
About the Role:
Basic Function and Scope of the Position
Engineer will be working on the McAfee Firewall Enterprise product. The McAfee Firewall Enterprise product is an enterprise class firewall product that sits at network perimeter and used to protect networks against evolving threats. It includes a IPS component used to detect attacks being carried out on the network. This engineer will develop and enhance the attack detection content for the McAfee Firewall Enterprise product.
Specific Responsibilities/Functions
- Develop and enhance attack signature content for the IPS component in the McAfee Firewall Enterprise product
- Build IPS/IDS attack signature packs on regular basis
- Work on customer queries related to attack signature content creation
- Test and ensure the quality of the IPS/IDS attack signature packs
- Enhance the infrastructure to facilitate vulnerability research and attack signature release process
Qualifications
Experience, Knowledge and Skills
- BTech or BE in Computer Science with at least 3 - 6 years of work experience
- Excellent understanding of Layer 3 protocols such as IPv4, IPv6, ICMP, IPSec, etc.
- Excellent understanding of Layer 4 protocols such as TCP, UDP, etc.
- Excellent understanding of Layer 7 protocols such as HTTP, SMTP, DNS, PoP3, IMAP, SSH, SSL, Telnet, FTP, etc.
- Solid Computer Networking background
- Proficient with one of the programming languages such as C, C++, or Java
- Proficient with one of the scripting languages such as Perl, Python, or Ruby
- Proficient with regular expressions
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Understanding of software exploitation and common vulnerabilities is a plus
- Understand the threat landscape in the security area such as phishing, malware, botnet, and web security
- Experience with software development including all stages of the software lifecycle
- Design and Analysis skills
- Ability to communicate and work within a team environment.
Not required, but having these is a big plus:
Experience with network security and network security products a plus
Prior experience in writing attack signatures for Network IDS/IPS products such as Open Source Snort is a plus.
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Job: Software Development
Primary Location: MIC-India MIC-Karnataka MIC-Bangalore BEC MIC
Position Number: 881115
Schedule: Full-time
