Senior Security Monitoring & Threat Hunting Specialist

Remote • Posted 2 hours ago • Updated 2 hours ago
Contract W2
Contract Independent
24 Months
No Travel Required
Remote
$50 - $55/hr
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Skills

  • Analytical Skill
  • Cloud Computing
  • Mentorship
  • Communication
  • Documentation
  • Threat Analysis
  • Incident Management
  • Network
  • Productivity
  • SIEM
  • Workflow

Summary

Description:

The Senior Security Monitoring & Threat Hunting Specialist serves as a key leader in the organization''s cyber defense capability, driving advanced detection, proactive threat hunting, and strategic improvements to security monitoring operations. This role focuses on complex investigations, high-priority threat hunts, and mentoring less experienced analysts, ensuring early identification and mitigation of sophisticated adversary activity while continuously enhancing the enterprise''s security posture.

 

Responsibilities

·         Lead monitoring, triage, enrichment, and investigation of cyber alerts from SIEM, EDR/XDR, identity, cloud, network, email, and other security platforms, with emphasis on acquired entities.

·         Correlate and interpret activity across diverse telemetry sources to assess severity, scope, business impact, and risk, providing actionable recommendations to executive and technical stakeholders.

·         Design and execute advanced hypothesis-driven threat hunts informed by threat intelligence, adversary tradecraft. emerging attack trends, anomalies, and known detection gaps.

·         Develop and refine detection strategies, analytical playbooks, and hunting frameworks to strengthen enterprise defenses and reduce false positives.

·         Produce high-quality documentation of investigative methodology, hunt findings, timelines, evidentiary artifacts and conclusions, ensuring clear communication to both technical and non-technical audiences.

·         Escalate confirmed or suspected threats to incident response teams with detailed analysis, confidence levels, and prioritized remediation steps.

·         Partner with engineering, architecture, and threat intelligence teams to identify opportunities for improved logging. detection coverage, enrichment, and operational workflows.

Baseline proficiency in enterprise-approved Al tools. This includes, but is not limited to:

Consistent Use. Applied Productivity, and Continuous Learning of Al Tools.

Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.
  • Dice Id: 91163556
  • Position Id: 9017260
  • Posted 2 hours ago
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John Kumar

Recruiter @ kjohn@samrusystems.com
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