What We Do:

Uptake is a Chicago-based predictive analytics SaaS platform provider that empowers major industry leaders to optimize performance, reduce asset failures and enhance safety. At Uptake, we combine our strengths—machine learning, analytics, data visualization and software development—with the expertise of our industrial partners. The result is enormous savings in development time and resources for Uptake’s partners and a proven industrial grade software platform that delivers value to partners and their end customers.

What You'll Do:

​As a member of the Hackers & Hunters team, you’ll be responsible for uncovering unknown vulnerabilities, threats and malicious activity across the entire Uptake technology stack (hardware/software) and environment. You’ll use a combination of bow hunting, nunchuck and computer hacking skills to provide a high degree of assurance to the Director of Hackers and Hunters, Chief Information Security Officer and the Uptake Security team that all unknowns are uncovered, documented, communicated and tracked.

Responsibilities:

• Work on continuous penetration testing, red team, proactive and reactive investigation and response activities and initiatives


• Act as a deep technical security consultant to internal teams on both hardware and software development


• Participate in red team and incident response activities


• Tell and demonstrate clear and easy-to-understand stories based on activity results to drive a continuous education process internally


• Guide mitigation strategies for identified vulnerabilities and threats


• Test unique devices, assets and machines that no one else is testing

Qualifications:

• 6 to 8 years of experience in all things hacking, reverse engineering and responding to incidents


• Deep knowledge of practices and methods of IT strategy, enterprise architecture and security architecture


• Ability to work in a fast-paced collaborative environment


• Ability to think through complex problems and develop creative solutions

Preferred skills:

• A love for Rick Astley


• Active member of the information security community


• Be bad-ass in what you do.