Lead Threat Hunter

U.S. Bank National Association • Cincinnati, OH

1d • $126,820 - $149,200

About The Position

U.S. Bank is looking for an experienced Lead Threat Hunter to join our existing security incident response program and help us ensure the security of the enterprise by finding and responding to advanced threats in our environment. The Lead Threat Hunter serves as an advisor and/or senior member leader across domain security initiatives to identify vulnerabilities in systems, controls, and standards gaps. This includes leading efforts, designing, implementing and executing processes and controls for security functional areas. Defines strategic objectives and supporting goals to enhance the security of systems, networks, and technical platforms and drives progress of team objectives and achievements.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
• 8+ years of relevant experience
• Expertise in AI automation tooling.
• Hunting with Jupyter notebooks, Python, automation and APIs.
• Expertise hunting with security logging, monitoring, and event management tools.
• Expertise in log analysis, packet analysis.
• Knowledge of threat hunting frameworks.
• Experience with incident response or threat hunting in major cloud environments such as AWS, Azure and GCP.
• Demonstrable proficiency in threat intelligence platforms, security automation and orchestration and red/blue/purple team activities.
• Excellent communication and reporting skills.
• 8 or more years’ experience in information security.
• 4 or more years’ experience with incident response/incident handling.
• 2 or more years’ experience as a threat hunter.
• Thorough understanding of the applicable information security systems, policies, and procedures.
• Effective communication, presentation skills, leadership, problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Proven collaboration and influencing skills.

Nice To Haves

• Malware reverse engineering skills.
• Expertise with incident response frameworks.
• Experience in the financial sector.
• SANS, CHFI, OSCP or similar certification.

Responsibilities

• Collaborating with security engineering teams to create and test detection rules.
• Investigating potential cybersecurity incidents.
• Developing response processes and training security operations staff.
• Reviewing and tracking detected events to identify new exploits, threats and mitigation strategies, and enforce incident reporting standards.
• Leading in-depth technical analysis of new and emerging information security threats.
• Analyzing threats and vulnerabilities to determine their impact to the bank's operations
• Assisting with investigations and eDiscovery efforts involving court-proven forensic processes and technologies.

Benefits

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Basic term and optional term life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave
• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
• Adoption assistance
• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree