Cnsltng Dir, Threat Hunter

CNA Insurance • Chicago, IL

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Threat Hunter, Consulting Director is a senior-level individual contributor focused on proactively searching adversarial activity in the network with the goal of discovering threats prior to an adversary completing its mission. This role utilizes advanced skills to perform enterprise forensics including operating system artifact analysis, log analysis, network traffic analysis, and the MITRE ATT&CK framework. This position is responsible for developing innovative and creative detection tactics and techniques that protect client data and corporate assets from diverse threats. The role is a key member of a highly technical team operating in a rapidly changing environment.

Requirements

• In-depth knowledge of SIEM, IDS/IPS, web proxies, DLP, CASB, DNS security, DDoS protection, and firewalls.
• Advanced experience with forensic tools for OS artifact, memory, and network analysis.
• Strong understanding of malware, reverse engineering principles, and network protocols.
• Demonstrated ability to build, execute, and lead enterprise threat hunting programs.
• Ability to work collaboratively in high-pressure incident response environments.
• Demonstrated ability to apply artificial intelligence and machine-learning techniques to threat hunting, including use of LLMs, UEBA, and statistical models to surface anomalous behavior, enrich low-signal telemetry, and accelerate hypothesis-driven hunts across large enterprise datasets.
• Experience evaluating, tuning, and operationalizing AI-enabled security capabilities (e.g., AI-assisted SIEM, EDR/XDR, and detection engineering workflows), with an understanding of model limitations, bias, false-positive risk, and the need for analytically defensible outcomes suitable for executive, legal, and regulatory review.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Typically a minimum of 10 years of experience in cyber monitoring, threat hunting, incident response, forensics, or related disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Leads and conducts real-time and historical analysis using the full security suite including Endpoint Protection, SIEM, Firewall, EDR, IDS, Email Gateway, Web Content Filtering, and Identity Management technologies.
• Conducts incident response triage analysis on suspected hosts to determine potential attacks and scope.
• Conducts threat hunting operations based on the latest threat intelligence.
• Creates strategies for enterprise-wide hunts based on triage findings and intelligence efforts.
• Maintains awareness of emerging attack tactics, techniques, and procedures.
• Collaborates with SOC, Threat Intelligence, Incident Response, and Enterprise Security teams.
• Identifies visibility gaps and recommends improvements.
• Manages day-to-day SOC monitoring, investigations, response, and intelligence activities.
• Coordinates escalation for advanced forensics and malware reverse engineering.
• Communicates security incidents clearly to business and non-technical stakeholders.
• May perform additional duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Comprehensive and competitive benefits package to help our employees – and their family members – achieve their physical, financial, emotional and social wellbeing goals.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees