Senior Threat Hunter

$142,800 - $193,300/Yr

Disability Solutions - Denver, CO

Full-time - Senior

Denver, CO

About the position

The Senior Threat Hunter position within Bank of America's Cyber Security Defense function is focused on enhancing the bank's cyber security posture through proactive threat hunting, intelligence analysis, and collaboration with various teams. The role involves analyzing large datasets to identify novel threats and attack techniques, developing innovative threat hunt hypotheses, and mentoring junior team members. The Senior Threat Hunter will work closely with Cyber Defense operational and technical teams to create effective hunt strategies and analytics, ensuring accurate identification of malicious behavior while minimizing false positives.

Responsibilities

• 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 develop analytical methods for detecting advanced threat actors.
• Develop and document new threat hunt hypotheses to identify previously unnoticed threats.
• Share knowledge and mentor junior members of the threat hunt team.
• Work with Cyber Defense operational and technical teams to gain insights into security controls and develop hunt strategies.
• Advise on and review product assessments, policy adjustments, and architectural transformations that impact the global Corporation.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in a technical role in Security Operation, Incident Response, Detection Engineering, Offensive Security/Red Team, or Cyber Threat Intelligence.
• Direct experience performing threat hunting in an active corporate environment.
• Experience analyzing system, network, and application logging for attack techniques at all stages of the cyber kill chain.
• Experience with large datasets and log analysis tools such as Splunk, Python, Pandas, SQL, Hadoop, and Hue.
• Ability to apply Cyber Threat Intelligence through enrichment, correlation, and attribution.
• Familiarity with offensive security strategies and assessment methodology.
• Experience with enterprise scale EDR and SIEM tools.
• Previous experience performing digital forensics or incident response on major security incidents.

Nice-to-haves

• Knowledge of basic Data Science concepts and processes.
• Experience with offensive security tools such as Cobalt Strike/Metasploit and OSINT techniques.

Benefits

• Industry-leading benefits
• Access to paid time off
• Resources and support for employees to contribute to sustainable growth of the business and communities served.