Hybrid Senior Threat Hunter

at Bank of America

• Job title: Senior Threat Hunter
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $145,000 - $192,500 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Azure, Cloud, Hadoop, Pandas, Python, Splunk, SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Denver, United States

About the role

• Senior Threat Hunter responsible for analyzing and correlating large data sets to uncover novel threats. Collaborating with teams to develop methods for detecting advanced threat actors.

Responsibilities

• The position of Senior Threat Hunter is responsible for analyzing and correlating large data sets to uncover novel threats and attack techniques that may be present within the bank’s environments.
• Collaborating with data science, threat research, and cyber defense control teams to identify opportunities to develop analytical methods to detect advanced threat actors who utilize emerging tactics and techniques.
• Developing and documenting new and innovative threat hunt hypotheses to increase the team’s ability to find existing threats that are otherwise going unidentified or unnoticed.
• Actively sharing knowledge and mentoring more junior members of the threat hunt team.
• Working with all Cyber Defense operational and technical teams within Global Information Security (GIS) to gain insight into critical security controls and architectural specifics to develop valuable hunt strategies and analytics that identify malicious behavior accurately while maintaining a low false positive rate.
• Advising on and reviewing product assessments, policy adjustments, and architectural transformations that impact the global Corporation, and being a thought leader in the design of cutting-edge detective, preventative, and proactive controls.

Requirements

• Direct experience performing threat hunting in an active corporate environment.
• 8+ years of experience in a technical role in the areas of Security Operation, Incident Response, Detection Engineering, Offensive Security/Red Team, or Cyber Threat Intelligence.
• Experience analyzing system, network, and application logging for attack techniques at all stages of the cyber kill chain.
• Direct experience working with very large datasets and log analysis tools including but not limited to: Splunk, Python, Pandas, SQL, Hadoop, Hue.
• Experience consuming and analyzing Cyber Threat Intelligence for actionable takeaways.
• Ability to apply Cyber Threat Intelligence through enrichment, correlation, and attribution.
• Familiarity with offensive security strategies and assessment methodology.
• Experience explaining threat hunt objectives in plain English and able to communicate associated risk.
• Ability to see the larger picture when dealing with competing requirements and needs from across the organization in order to build consensus and drive results.
• Ability to navigate and work effectively across a complex, geographically dispersed organization.
• Experience with more than one or more enterprise scale EDR and SIEM tools.
• Previous experience performing digital forensics or indecent response on major security incidents.
• Demonstrated ability to self-direct, with minimal supervision to achieve assigned goals.
• Knowledge of basic Data Science concepts and processes. (Beneficial but not required)
• Experience with offensive security tools such as Cobalt Strike/Metasploit, techniques such as OSINT, and the methods used to compromise large enterprise networks. (Beneficial but not required)
• Experience performing security analysis and threat hunting in Cloud environments such as Azure, M365, AWS. (Beneficial but not required)

Benefits

• Pay range $145,000.00 - $192,500.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.
• Discretionary incentive eligible
• Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.
• We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.