Listing Description

WPP IT provides IT services for WPP, the world’s largest communications services group. As a creative transformation company, WPP is helping its clients transform the future through extraordinary work. WPP IT is an integral part of that journey and we are proud to provide technology for some of the world’s most creative brands.

Why we're hiring:

At WPP, technology is at the heart of everything we do, and it is WPP IT’s mission to enable everyone to collaborate, create and thrive. WPP IT is undergoing a significant transformation to modernize ways of working, shift to cloud and micro-service-based architectures, drive automation, digitize colleague and client experiences and deliver insight from WPP’s petabytes of data.

As we progress on this journey, we need to evolve how we protect our customers, employees, and shareholders for today and the future. You will play a critical role in developing and implementing a world class information security programme to protect WPP Group from cyber threats. This is an essential role, supporting WPP IT to deliver its purpose to design, build, run and transform all current and future IT services which underpin the One WPP strategy.

The Malware Analyst is responsible for providing in-depth analysis and intelligence on the malicious software, tools and methods used in a cyber-attack.

The role will look to analyze and investigate malicious and/or suspicious code with a view to protecting the estate by predicting the intended behavior of the code and helping to develop methods of identification.

The role holder will conduct detailed forensic analysis on platforms and logs as part of the incident response teams activities.

What you'll be doing:

• Build and maintain a safe analysis environment


• Identify, investigate and analyse various forms of malware and their methods of delivery.


• Analysis of attacks across the estate to understand deployment, success criteria and applicable defences to protect against future or follow-up attacks.


• Ability to transpose findings into recommendations, working with the wider Cyber Security team to refine or implement new security controls where needed.


• Providing support to the Security Incident Response team on mitigation and recovery activities.


• Provide digital forensic examination services

What you'll need:

• Strong knowledge of high level, middle level and assembly level programming languages.


• Experience in reverse engineering malicious/suspicious code.


• Strong understanding of programme analysis tools, supporting disassembly, debugging, packing/unpacking, binary/code analysis, etc.


• Strong understanding of malicious software types (i.e. adware, bots, ransomware, worms).


• Experience in malware classification by severity, behaviours, threats and commonalities.


• Experience of log analysis


• Experience of digital forensic analysis


• Strong understanding of offensive and defensive tools and techniques.


• Understanding of networking fundamentals.


• Ability to produce reports, alerts and other supporting documentation for the wider Cyber Security team.


• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written

Who you are:

You're open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are accepting: of new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working.

You're optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected.

You're extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.

What we'll give you:

Passionate, inspired people – We promote a culture of people that do extraordinary work.

Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry.

Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge?