Threat Lead - Top Secret

Threat Hunt Lead

The Threat Hunt Lead is responsible for overseeing all cyber threat hunt, adversary analysis, malware analysis, and digital forensics mission activities under an upcoming government contract. Hunts will include operations within sensitive environments such as Operation Technology (OT), Industrial Control Systems (ICS) and other Critical Infrastructure (CI) networks. The successful leader directs multidisciplinary hunt and forensic teams providing full spectrum detection, analysis, and response capabilities that enable federal stakeholders to identify, understand, and counter sophisticated cyber threats across federal, State Local Tribal and Territorial (SLTT), commercial, critical infrastructure, and cloud environments.

The Threat Hunt Lead ensures continuous detection of adversary behavior, manages simultaneously deployed hunt operations, oversees advanced malware and forensics workflows, and delivers high quality analytic products that inform national cyber defense actions. The role maintains readiness of personnel, tools, and flyaway kits to support rapid, remote, or onsite engagements.

Oversee simultaneously deployed hunt operations teams performing adversary tool analysis, including dynamic and static malware analysis and full reverse engineering of binaries, scripts, malicious documents, and artifacts to determine functionality, behavior, and command and control mechanisms. Oversee teams conducting digital forensic analysis of affected systems to determine malware impact, persistence mechanisms, and threat actor behavior. Deep understanding of all levels of threat actor tools, tactics, and procedures (TTPs) that actors may deploy including advanced AI/ML modeling techniques.

Extensive knowledge of emerging, established, and nation‑state level threat actor behaviors to include subversion and/or false flag operations techniques designed to circumvent established cyber inspection tools. In‑depth ability to adapt to diverse cyber environments in which managed teams may not have access to on‑site cyber tools and manage teams that may need to "live off the land" with on‑site‑provided cyber tools.

Strong knowledge of air‑gapped environments and how direct simultaneously deployed hunt teams within them to ensure consistent reporting. Ensure teams develop custom scripts, tools, and analytic methods to identify, characterize, and visualize adversary techniques across hunt, malware, and forensics workflows within both established and atypical cyber environments such as OT/ICS environments, commercial environments. Produce high quality indicators of compromise, detection artifacts, and adversary capability assessments that support national cyber defense operations.

Oversee full spectrum hunt and incident response engagements, onsite and/or remote, ensuring simultaneously deployed teams identify threats, assess impact, and recommend remedial actions to local stakeholders. Direct continuous analysis of established and atypical cyber defense sensor data, endpoint activity, network flows, cloud telemetry, and communications data to detect adversarial behavior and anomalous activity. Ensure teams maintain continuous awareness of emerging attack techniques, threat actors, tools, and methodologies.

Oversee both classified and unclassified delivery of federal stakeholder branded analytic products, intelligence deliverables, threat assessments, and technical reports that contextualize adversary activity. Determine mechanisms for timely and accurate release of indicators. Prepare, support the delivery of, and oversee the creation of on‑demand and formal reporting to ensure timely and accurate reporting of shifting threat actor TTPs regardless of attribution.

Understand and administer established frameworks of reporting mechanisms such as MITRE ATT&CK (Enterprise, Mobile, IC, etc.).

Oversee simultaneously deployed teams performing forensic examination across host systems and digital media (phones, hard drives, memory images, etc.). Direct…