Malware Defense Senior Manager (MRA)

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This role is responsible for leading the Malware Research & Analysis (MRA) team within Global Malware Defense. The team conducts advanced malware research, analysis, and reverse engineering to understand malicious code, attacker behaviors, techniques, and infrastructure, and translates those findings into actionable intelligence that strengthens detection, prevention, hunting, and response capabilities across the enterprise.

The manager is accountable for the strategy, execution, and continued advancement of the MRA capability. This includes leading and developing a highly technical team, establishing priorities and quality standards, and ensuring research and analysis translate into meaningful defensive improvements. The role partners closely with teams across Global Malware Defense and GIS to identify security gaps, strengthen defensive controls, advance tooling and automation, and support complex malware investigations and cybersecurity incidents.

The successful candidate will be a strong people and technical leader with experience in malware analysis, reverse engineering, incident response, threat research, or related cybersecurity disciplines. The role requires strong analytical and critical-thinking skills, sound judgment, and the ability to lead through complex technical challenges and high-impact security events. The ideal candidate can effectively communicate complex technical issues to both technical and leadership audiences, challenge existing approaches, drive continuous improvement, and develop both people and technical capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Leads the Malware Research & Analysis (MRA) team within Global Malware Defense, with accountability for strategy, priorities, talent, and execution.

• Provides leadership, coaching, and technical direction to malware analysts and reverse engineers while fostering technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning.

• Oversees advanced malware research, analysis, and reverse engineering to identify malware capabilities, behaviors, indicators, infrastructure, and emerging attacker techniques.

• Drives the operationalization of malware research and analysis into improved detection, prevention, hunting, and response capabilities.

• Partners with malware control owners, threat intelligence, incident response, engineering, and other cybersecurity teams to identify gaps and strengthen defensive controls.

• Provides leadership and technical oversight for complex malware investigations, escalations, and high-impact security events.

• Provides leadership and technical support during cybersecurity incidents involving malware, ensuring timely analysis, escalation, and coordination with incident response and partner teams.

• Advances MRA capabilities through improvements in tooling, automation, analytical methodologies, processes, and emerging technologies.

• Develops technical talent, establishes quality standards, and ensures timely, consistent, and high-quality analytical outcomes.

Required Skills

• Strong understanding of malware analysis and reverse engineering concepts, including static, dynamic, and behavioral analysis.

• Strong knowledge of malware behaviors, persistence, obfuscation, command-and-control, attacker techniques, and reverse engineering methodologies and tools such as IDA Pro and Ghidra.

• Knowledge of endpoint, network, and other security technologies, including EDR/XDR, SIEM, sandboxing, and related platforms used to detect, investigate, and prevent malicious activity.

• Understanding of attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures and frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK.

• Experience supporting complex cybersecurity incidents and coordinating technical analysis, escalation, and response across multiple teams.

• Demonstrated ability to translate technical findings into actionable detection, prevention, hunting, response, and defensive-control improvements.

• Experience driving improvements in security tooling, automation, analytical processes, or technical capabilities.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and decision-making skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical issues to technical and leadership audiences.