Senior Threat Hunter

Join Bank of America's Cyber Security Defense function as a Senior Threat Hunter, responsible for analyzing and correlating large data sets to uncover novel threats and attack techniques.

• Analyze and correlate large data sets to uncover novel threats and attack techniques.
• Collaborate with data science, threat research, and cyber defense control teams to identify opportunities to develop analytical methods to detect advanced threat actors.
• Develop and document new and innovative threat hunt hypotheses to increase the team's ability to find existing threats that are otherwise going unidentified or unnoticed.
• Actively share knowledge and mentor more junior members of the threat hunt team.
• Work with all Cyber Defense operational and technical teams within Global Information Security (GIS) to gain insight into critical security controls and architectural specifics.
• Develop valuable hunt strategies and analytics that identify malicious behavior accurately while maintaining a low false positive rate.
• Advise on and review product assessments, policy adjustments, and architectural transformations that impact the global Corporation.

• 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 incident 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.
• Experience with offensive security tools such as Cobalt Strike/Metasploit, techniques such as OSINT, and the methods used to compromise large enterprise networks.

• Competitive salary range: $142,800.00 - $193,300.00 annualized salary.
• Discretionary incentive eligible.
• Benefits eligible.

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