Senior Tactical Response Analyst

Huntress

6h•$125,000 - $135,000•Remote

About The Position

Cybercrime is growing, and more businesses are getting hit by threats that used to target only the biggest organizations. That pushes defenders like us to operate at the highest level, and it deepens our need for good people who want to make a meaningful impact. Founded in 2015 by former NSA cyber operators, Huntress is a remote-first team working to make enterprise-grade cybersecurity accessible to businesses of all sizes. We work closely with security teams and service providers protecting complex environments, often without the time or headcount to handle it all. That’s why we build our technology in-house and back it with a 24/7 human-led Security Operations Center (SOC). As a result, our platform is never disconnected from the experts who manage it, ensuring our customers' protection. Huntress now secures more than 5M+ endpoints and 15M+ identities worldwide. Those numbers keep growing because more businesses rely on us to help carry the load and operate with more confidence. Every day, you can see that commitment in how we stand with our customers and how we show up for each other.

Requirements

Typically 3–5+ years of experience in SOC, MDR, threat hunting, digital forensics, or incident response.
Experience leading or participating in external-customer incident response engagements.
Demonstrated ability to investigate complex or multi-host intrusions with limited oversight.
Strong understanding of initial access, persistence, lateral movement, credential access, remote access, and ransomware activity.
Ability to reconstruct attacker activity across systems, data sources, and time periods.
Experience with Microsoft 365, Azure, identity, VPN, firewall, SIEM, or cloud telemetry.
Experience with endpoint and forensic tools such as osquery, Velociraptor, EDR platforms, Eric Zimmerman tools, RegRipper, Hayabusa, Chainsaw, or equivalents.
Strong knowledge of common forensic artefacts, including event logs, registry data, prefetch, jump lists, shellbags, scheduled tasks, services, browser artefacts, and authentication activity.
Working knowledge of Windows internals; Linux and macOS experience is beneficial.
Working knowledge of static and dynamic malware analysis, indicator extraction, and basic unpacking or deobfuscation.
Familiarity with OSINT and attacker infrastructure research.
Strong working knowledge of KQL, EQL, ES|QL, Splunk SPL, or equivalent query languages.
Experience with Sigma, YARA, Suricata, Snort, or comparable detection formats.
Scripting or automation experience with Python, PowerShell, Bash, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, or similar.
Ability to identify product, telemetry, detection, and workflow gaps and express them as actionable requirements.
Demonstrated ability to write concise technical notes, investigation reports, and executive summaries.
Strong verbal communication, judgement, empathy, and composure during high-pressure partner engagements.
Experience collaborating with Product, Engineering, Detection Engineering, Sales Engineering, TAM, or other cross-functional teams.

Nice To Haves

Experience designing reusable investigation playbooks or methodology modules.
Experience developing production-quality automation or data-normalization workflows.
Experience creating technical enablement, case studies, webinars, blogs, or conference content.
Relevant certifications or equivalent practical experience in forensics, incident response, threat hunting, or offensive security.

Responsibilities

Lead or support cases involving confirmed active adversaries, hands-on-keyboard activity, serious intrusions, or complex coordination requirements.
Investigate across endpoint, identity, cloud, SIEM, VPN, firewall, Windows, Linux, macOS, and other available telemetry.
Build clear, evidence-based timelines and narratives that explain what happened and what must happen next.
Provide practical remediation, eviction, recovery, and recurrence-prevention guidance.
Explain complex findings clearly to technical teams, executives, and other stakeholders.
Participate in partner calls with calm, authoritative, and empathetic communication.
Identify where an incident demonstrates the value of an existing Huntress capability or indicates a need for additional coverage.
Facilitate warm technical handoffs and support post-incident or executive briefings.
Provide the technical evidence and narrative; account-facing teams own the commercial relationship, pricing, and sales process.
Research emerging attacker tradecraft and test hypotheses against Huntress telemetry and partner environments.
Develop and improve scripts, automations, dashboards, playbooks, methodology modules, and data-normalization workflows.
Contribute validated field intelligence and case-derived material to enablement, briefings, blogs, webinars, and case studies when appropriate.
Mentor responders and represent Tactical Response in cross-functional discussions.