Cyber Hunt & Respond Specialist (1st Shift - Tuesday to Saturday)

Immediate need for a talented Cyber Hunt & Respond Specialist (1st Shift - Tuesday to Saturday). This is a 16+months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Atlanta, GA (Onsite). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.

Job ID: 25-75126

Pay Range: $75 - $78/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

Key Responsibilities:

• This position is 1st Shift | Tuesday - Saturday| on-site 4/days per week in Atlanta.
• The Cyber Hunt & Respond Specialist is an experienced, after-hours role within the 24/7 Cyber Fusion Center.
• This position has two core functions: proactive Threat Hunting and reactive Incident Response coverage.
• Threat Hunting involves searching through large, diverse sets of internal and external data to Client previously undetected threats.
• This role is creative and responsible for developing new hypotheses on how adversaries may be attacking the organization and validating those hypotheses using available data.
• As a proactive role, the Specialist is expected to be highly collaborative, extroverted, and eager to engage with partner teams across the enterprise.
• Building strong relationships and maintaining open lines of communication are essential to uncovering threat patterns, sharing insights, and scaling hunt capabilities.
• Creativity is the key skillset that differentiates this Threat Hunter from other cyber roles.
• The ability to think like an adversary, construct Client detection hypotheses, and explore unconventional data paths is central to success in this position.
• Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job.
• Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below.
• Specific activities may change from time to time.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

• Key Skills; Threat hunting experience
• Experience with log, packet, network, endpoint, root cause analysis etc.
• Experience with SOC, Cyber breach response, NOC, Cyber engineering etc.
• As skilled cyber analysts, individuals in this role must be well-versed in log, packet, network, endpoint, root cause analysis, containment, and eradication.
• A programming, computer science, engineering, or data science background will be important to success in this role as unstructured data will need automated decisions made and other data reduction techniques applied.
• Depending on the candidate, the role will likely start with basic searches and visualizations but may ramp-up to leveraging Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence tools.
• Familiarity with programming and malicious code critical to success in this role.
• Must have a strong knowledge of windows internals to effectively respond to and eradicate advanced attacks.
• This role must advocate for the organization s threat hunting efforts.
• The ability to quickly identify nefarious artifacts versus benign activity will be a key skill for this position.
• Cyber & Respond Engineers will be asked to consult on a variety of problems (technical and non-technical) within the team and larger organization.
• Industry certifications in general technology (e.g. Network+, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, Microsoft Azure Fundamentals, etc.)
• Industry certifications in cyber security, such as: Security+, CySA+, GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH), GIAC Certified Forensic Examiner (GCFE), GIAC Cloud Forensics Responder (GCFR), GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst (GCFA), GIAC Network Forensic Analyst (GNFA), GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware Certification (GREM), etc.
• Experience in Cyber Breach Response, Security Operations Center (SOC), Network Operations Center (NOC), IT/Cyber Engineering, or Intelligence Community (IC).

Our client is a leading Financial Industry and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.

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