Senior Cybersecurity Threat Hunter III

Alexandria, VA, US • Posted 9 hours ago • Updated 9 hours ago
Full Time
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Skills

  • Cyber Security
  • Security Controls
  • SIEM
  • System On A Chip
  • Reporting
  • Security Engineering
  • Incident Management
  • Documentation
  • Training
  • Knowledge Sharing
  • Threat Analysis
  • Network
  • Mentorship
  • Analytical Skill
  • DoD
  • Internal Communications
  • Integrated Circuit
  • IC
  • Security Clearance
  • Continuous Integration

Summary

Title: Senior Cybersecurity Threat Hunter III

Location: Alexandria, VA

Clearance: TS/SCI with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph

Job Details:
  • Lead complex, hypothesis-driven threat hunts across multiple enterprise data sources and enclaves to identify sophisticated or previously undetected adversary activity
  • Proactively analyze security telemetry to identify indicators of compromise, anomalous behavior, and adversary activity that has not met an incident threshold or has evaded automated security controls
  • Assess and correlate data from multiple sources, including network, endpoint, identity, SIEM, threat intelligence, vulnerability, and other available security data
  • Document hunt activity, findings, evidence, and recommended follow-on actions in authorized systems and initiate or support incident-response processes when malicious activity is identified
  • Provide relevant findings and trends for SOC operational reporting, significant-activity reporting, and defensive awareness
  • Develop and prioritize hunt campaigns based on threat intelligence, mission risk, adversary TTPs, detection coverage, incident lessons learned, and environmental changes
  • Perform advanced behavioral analysis and identify patterns indicative of persistence, credential abuse, lateral movement, command and control, collection, or other adversary activity
  • Serve as an escalation point for junior threat analysts and provide technical guidance on hunt methodology, analytical pivots, and evidence validation
  • Translate successful hunt findings into actionable requirements for detection engineering, watch operations, security engineering, and incident response
  • Develop reusable hunt playbooks, queries, analytic methods, documentation standards, and training materials
  • Mentor junior personnel and support exercises, knowledge sharing, and assessment of threat-analysis proficiency

Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree from an accredited institute in a technical discipline applicable to the position; an additional 4 years of may be substituted in lieu of a degree
  • Minimum six (6) years of relevant experience in addition to education level
  • Significant hands-on experience conducting threat hunting, advanced cyber analysis, or adversary-focused investigations
  • Strong knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK, adversary TTPs, threat intelligence application, and network/host/identity security telemetry
  • Experience developing hunt hypotheses and converting analytical findings into detection or defensive improvements
  • Experience mentoring analysts or leading complex analytical efforts
  • Must possess current DoD 8570 IAT II or IAM II certification
  • Experience working in a DoD or IC environment
  • Current active TS/SCI clearance, with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph

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  • Dice Id: 90789821
  • Position Id: 29eddc02962655b2bf563985fd54682c
  • Posted 9 hours ago
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