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Senior Threat Hunter
Location
District Of Columbia
Posted
7 days ago
Salary
$60K - $180K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Threat Hunter
M9 Solutions
• Work remotely in support of a government contract for a client located in Washington, DC. • Conduct data hunting and manipulation to detect cyber threats. • Manage projects and tasks against tight deadlines, potentially leading teams.
Job Requirements
- Active Secret security clearance.
- Bachelor’s Degree (Bachelor’s Degree may be substituted with additional 4+ years of experience).
- 5+ years of experience with data hunting/manipulation/presentation.
- Experience in management or as team leader, managing projects and tasks against tight deadlines.
- Skill in generating queries and reports.
- Ability to interpret and incorporate data from multiple tool sources.
- Skill in conducting queries and developing algorithms to analyze data structures.
- Knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK and D3FEND frameworks.
- Knowledge of the TCP/IP networking stack and network IDS technologies.
- Experience with searching network flow, PCAP, logs, and sensors for evidence of cyber-attack patterns, and hunting for Advanced Persistent Threats (APT).
- Experience with creating reusable hunt tactics and techniques.
- Knowledge related to the current state of cyber adversary tactics and trends.
- Knowledge of SIEM search language, search techniques, alerts, dashboards, and report building.
- Possess strong analytical skills and the ability to effectively research, write, communicate, and brief to varying levels of audiences, including at the executive level.
- Experience with complex malware analysis.
- Skill in identifying common encoding techniques (e.g., Exclusive Disjunction [XOR], American Standard Code for Information Interchange [ASCII], Unicode, Base64, Uuencode, Uniform Resource Locator [URL] encode).
- Skill in writing scripts using R, Python, PIG, HIVE, SQL, etc.
- Experience with EDR solutions.
- Ability to develop, update, and maintain standard operating procedures and other technical documentation.
- Possess any 1 of: CISSP (associate), CCSP, SSCP, GCIH, GNFA, GCIA, and any from the CSSP Analyst or Infrastructure Support.
Benefits
- M9 Benefits - https://m9solutions.com/why-join-m9/#our-benefits
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