Cybersecurity Senior Threat Analyst

Hybrid in Wilmington, DE
, with a role built for independent, advanced technical leadership. This Senior Threat Analyst position operates as a senior technical escalation layer for complex cybersecurity events and investigations, with hands-on ownership across detection, threat intelligence, vulnerability analysis, threat hunting, penetration testing support, and audit technical response. The role also helps raise the team’s capability through standards, coaching, and measurable operational improvements.

What you bring matters here: advanced security operations expertise, the ability to evaluate complex evidence, and the communication skills to translate technical findings into actionable recommendations for technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

Open for at least five days from the posting date.

• Serve as the senior technical escalation point for complex, high-impact, or ambiguous cybersecurity events, independently leading investigation, scoping, evidence analysis, containment, mitigation, eradication, recovery validation, and post-incident technical review.
• Conduct advanced threat intelligence analysis with minimal oversight, correlating intelligence sources, campaigns, vulnerabilities, attacker behaviors, targeting information, and environmental exposure.
• Develop actionable intelligence to support detection, incident response, threat hunting, vulnerability prioritization, and management decision-making.
• Define and lead proactive threat-hunting activities and establish detection priorities.
• Develop, test, tune, validate, and review security-monitoring rules, queries, correlation logic, and use cases, including identifying telemetry gaps and reducing false positives.
• Lead complex vulnerability analysis using exploitability, active threat intelligence, asset criticality, exposure, attack paths, business context, and existing controls.
• Perform validation, remediation review, retesting, and technical closure.
• Independently perform or lead assigned penetration tests, security assessments, and technical testing activities with minimal oversight, including preparation, execution, analysis, documentation, remediation guidance, and retesting.
• Provide senior technical support for internal and external audits, regulatory examinations, and control assessments by identifying required evidence, validating control operation, responding to complex technical requests, explaining security processes and findings, and supporting remediation of audit issues.
• Provide advanced technical support for cybersecurity platforms, integrations, queries, dashboards, scripts, automation, and analytical workflows, and lead technical evaluations of security products and capabilities.
• Establish and improve standards for investigation, incident response, threat hunting, detection, vulnerability analysis, and technical documentation.
• Develop and review procedures, playbooks, runbooks, and analytical guidance.
• Mentor Cybersecurity Threat Analyst I and II personnel by reviewing complex work, providing technical coaching, and helping develop capabilities across investigation, detection, threat intelligence, vulnerability analysis, scripting, incident response, and penetration testing.
• Lead significant operational improvement initiatives in collaboration with cybersecurity engineering, infrastructure, application, cloud, identity, data, audit, risk, and other teams to resolve complex security issues and improve controls.
• Develop advanced threat assessments, vulnerability reports, incident summaries, technical briefings, metrics, and recommendations, and communicate significant findings to management and stakeholders.
• Use approved AI-assisted capabilities for advanced analysis, threat research, detection development,…