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Cyber Threat Lead

Job in Ashburn, Loudoun County, Virginia, 22011, USA
Listing for: MANTECH
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-02-21
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    Cybersecurity, IT Consultant, Information Security
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 100000 - 125000 USD Yearly USD 100000.00 125000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Position: Cyber Threat Hunt Lead

MANTECH seeks a motivated, career and customer-oriented Cyber Threat Hunt Lead to join our team in Ashburn, VA
.

The ultimate purpose of this role is to provide the disciplined leadership and structural organization necessary to rapidly implement critical, high-impact security solutions that directly protect the Nation's digital borders while ensuring continuous, compliant contract delivery for 24x7x365 network, cyber, and cloud services.

Responsibilities Include But Are Not Limited To
  • Establishing the executing the Cyber Threat Hunting strategy, including threat modeling and proactively searching for malicious activity.
  • Utilize threat models and Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) to formulate complex hypotheses about attacker activity.
  • Executing proactive, cross-domain hunt efforts against government networks to uncover advanced threats that evade automated security systems.
  • Coordinating Purple Team engagements by providing Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) and analyzing the results to eliminate any blind spots.
  • Conducting Ad Hoc hunts using Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) and the MITRE ATT&CK Framework.
Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information technology, or cybersecurity with at least 10 years of relevant experience.
  • Five (5+) years of experience as a Tier III senior cyber threat hunt analyst.
  • Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) OR one of the following:
    DoD 8570 IAT Level II, IAM Level I, CSSP Analyst/Incident Responder.
  • Deep knowledge of capabilities and experience with SIEM and networked-device management tools such as Splunk and Tanium.
Clearance Requirements
  • Must have an active/current TS/SCI clearance.
  • Must be able to obtain and maintain a CBP BI (Background Investigation).
Physical Requirements
  • Must be able to be in a stationary position more than 50% of the time.
  • Must be able to communicate, converse, and exchange information with peers and senior personnel.
  • Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a computer.
  • The person in this position frequently communicates with co-workers, management, and customers, which may involve delivering presentations. Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations.
  • The person in this position needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.
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