Cyber Threat Hunt & Intelligence Detection and Capabilities Lead

Bank of America • Washington, DC

1d • $145,000 - $192,500

About The Position

The position of Detections and Capabilities lead is responsible for working with our Cyber Threat Intelligence and Cyber Threat Hunt teams to manage detection content to production and develop bespoke capabilities and automations. As a member of the CTHID team you also will be tasked with and 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 also include developing and documenting the detection lifecycle from content creation, triage methodology and transfer to the respective production operations team. The role will also be expected to actively share knowledge and mentor more junior members of the threat hunt and intel teams. The role will work 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. This role advises on and reviews product assessments, policy adjustments, and architectural transformations that impact the global corporation, and will be a thought leader in the design of cutting-edge detective, preventative, and proactive controls.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in a technical role in the areas of Security Operation, Incident Response, Detection Engineering, Offensive Security/Red Team, or Cyber Threat Intelligence
• Direct experience developing detections for threats within cyber security tools
• Direct experience developing automations within security orchestration and automation platforms
• 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 but not limited to: 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 able to communicate associated risk.
• Ability to see the larger picture when dealing with competing requirements and needs from across the organization in order to build consensus and drive results.
• Ability to navigate and work effectively across a complex, geographically dispersed organization.
• Experience with more than one or more enterprise scale EDR and SIEM tools.
• Previous experience performing digital forensics or indecent response on major security incidents.
• Demonstrated ability to self-direct, with minimal supervision to achieve assigned goals.

Nice To Haves

• 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

Responsibilities

• manage detection content to production
• develop bespoke capabilities and automations
• 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
• developing and documenting the detection lifecycle from content creation, triage methodology and transfer to the respective production operations team
• actively share knowledge and mentor more junior members of the threat hunt and intel teams
• 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
• advises on and reviews product assessments, policy adjustments, and architectural transformations that impact the global corporation
• thought leader in the design of cutting-edge detective, preventative, and proactive controls

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed