Bank of America

Senior Threat Hunter

Bank of America

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: ChicagoIllinoisUnited States

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Salary

💰 $145,000 - $192,900 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Analyzing and correlating large data sets to uncover novel threats and attack techniques present within the bank’s environments
  • Collaborating with data science, threat research, and cyber defense control teams to identify opportunities to develop analytical methods to detect advanced threat actors utilizing emerging tactics and techniques
  • Developing and documenting new and innovative threat hunt hypotheses to identify existing threats that might go unnoticed
  • Actively sharing knowledge and mentoring more junior members of the threat hunt team
  • Working with all Cyber Defense operational and technical teams within Global Information Security (GIS) to develop valuable hunt strategies and analytics
  • Advising on and reviewing product assessments, policy adjustments, and architectural transformations impacting the global Corporation
  • Being a thought leader in the design of cutting-edge detective, preventative, and proactive controls.

Requirements

  • 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 indecent response on major security incidents
  • Demonstrated ability to self-direct, with minimal supervision to achieve assigned goals.
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Soft Skills
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