Internews is hiring for an anti-censorship technologist

Your role

• Coordinate internally and with partners to support tracking, data gathering, analysis of, and any available countermeasures to censorship events.
• Build threat models with anti-censorship tool development grantees.
• Assist development teams with the integration of anti-censorship tools or protocols into their software, such as the use of Tor, Psiphon, and/or Lantern.
• Deploy, monitor, and maintain servers running tools for network measurement.
• Contribute to the quarterly reports in accordance with donor requirements summarizing project activities, providing an update on the local context, and highlighting gaps or challenges.
• Work with the project team to ensure project activity planning, implementation, reporting, and monitoring and evaluation activities are rolled out in a timely manner, to a high standard of quality.
• Support business development efforts by contributing to the design and development of opportunities for new programs.
• In all duties, demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to upholding Internews’ Core Values.

Expertise

• A track record of using strong methodologies in network monitoring, reporting, and analysis in line with approaches adopted by the internet freedom community.
• Experience administrating Linux-based infrastructure in public and private cloud and virtualized environments.
• Solid understanding of the Internet’s building blocks (IP, DNS, SSL/TLS, etc.), as well as how these are leveraged in censorship tactics and anti-censorship methods.
• Installation, configuration, and management of network monitoring tools such as OONI probes.
• Use of at least one hosted, FOSS VPN solution (Outline, Streisand, Algo, etc.).
• Ability to use two or more scripting and/or programming languages such as Go, Rust, Swift to gather and analyze data.
• Ability to automate, correlate, and analyze data collection from diverse sources.
• Comfort with a wide variety of tools and ability to adapt and learn where needed.
• An ethical, transparent, and community-focused approach to work.
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize a shifting workload, sometimes with tight deadlines.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team, to plan for flexibility at the program design and implementation levels, and to handle change.
• Proven ability to operate effectively in a multicultural environment.
• Professional-level fluency in English.
• Optimism, a sense of humor, and excitement at joining a supportive, skilled, multi-cultural team that is distributed across the globe.
• Ability to explain complex technical subjects in lay language with those who have a less technical background.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, so candidates are encouraged to apply soon. This is a limited-term consultancy, with an expected end date in July 2023.