Bank of America

Senior Threat Hunter

Bank of America

full-time

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Location Type: Office

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
  • Collaborating with data science, threat research, and cyber defense control teams
  • Identifying opportunities to develop analytical methods to detect advanced threat actors
  • Developing and documenting new and innovative threat hunt hypotheses
  • 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)
  • Gaining insight into critical security controls and architectural specifics
  • Advising on and reviewing product assessments, policy adjustments, and architectural transformations

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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