Key responsibilities

- Develop risk- and intelligence-led hunting hypotheses mapped to MITRE ATT&CK;, organizational attack surface, control gaps, and recent threat activity.

- Query and correlate large datasets in SIEM, EDR/XDR, network, cloud, identity, and other security analytics platforms.

- Hunt for identity compromise, persistence, lateral movement, defense evasion, command and control, data staging, and exfiltration behaviors.

- Analyze endpoint process trees, authentication patterns, DNS, proxy, firewall, SaaS, cloud control-plane, and workload telemetry to identify anomalies.

- Validate findings, distinguish malicious behavior from legitimate operations, determine impacted entities, and initiate or support incident response.

- Create and tune YARA-L, XQL, Sigma, YARA, IOC, behavioral, and analytics-based detections from validated hunt outcomes.

- Build hunt packages containing objectives, assumptions, data requirements, queries, findings, evidence, gaps, and recommended corrective actions.

- Partner with CTI, detection engineering, purple-team,



vulnerability, cloud, IAM, and endpoint teams to improve coverage and control effectiveness.

- Measure hunt effectiveness through coverage, findings, new detections, telemetry gaps, control improvements, and repeatability.

Essential qualifications and expertise

- 5-8 years of cybersecurity experience with at least 3 years in threat hunting, incident response, detection engineering, DFIR, or advanced SOC analysis.

- Hands-on expertise with SIEM, plus EDR/XDR and one or more cloud, identity, or network analytics platforms.

- Robust knowledge of Windows and Linux internals, Active Directory/Entra ID attacks, malware behavior, network protocols, cloud threats, and MITRE ATT&CK.;

- Ability to write efficient queries and scripts using YARA-L, XQL, KQL/SPL, Python, PowerShell, or equivalent.

Preferred qualifications

- GCIH, GCIA, CISSP, OSCP, or equivalent.

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