Senior Threat Hunter

Senior Threat Hunter

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Our Cyber Threat Hunting, Intelligence & Defense team within Bank of America’s Cyber Security Defense function works to continuously strengthen the bank’s cyber security posture through research, threat simulations, threat hunting, and offensive security engagements. This team works with partners throughout the bank to discover and develop mitigations from threats to help secure a critical infrastructure that interacts with millions of customers.

The position of Senior Threat Hunter is responsible for analyzing and correlating large data sets to uncover novel threats and attack techniques that may be present within the bank’s environments. It involves collaborating with data science, threat research, and cyber defense control teams to identify opportunities to develop analytical methods to detect advanced threat actors who utilize emerging tactics and techniques.

In support of these processes, the role will 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. The role also actively shares knowledge and mentors more junior members of the threat hunt team.

The role works with all Cyber Defense operational and technical teams within Global Information Security (GIS) to gain insight into critical security controls and architectural specifics to develop valuable hunt strategies and analytics that identify malicious behavior accurately while maintaining a low false positive rate. It advises on and reviews product assessments, policy adjustments, and architectural transformations that impact the global Corporation, and serves as a thought leader in the design of cutting‑edge detective, preventative, and proactive controls.

• Direct experience performing threat hunting in an active corporate environment
• 8+ years of experience in a technical role in 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 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 communicating associated risk
• Ability to see the larger picture when dealing with competing requirements and needs across the organization to build consensus and drive results
• Ability to navigate and work effectively across a complex, geographically dispersed organization
• Experience with multiple 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
• Experience performing security analysis and threat hunting in Cloud environments such as Azure, M365, AWS

This job will be open and accepting applications for a minimum of seven days from the date it was posted.

1st shift (United States of America)

40

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

General Business, Management, and Business Development

Banking

Chicago, IL

$70,000.00‑$

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