Senior Threat Hunter

Bank of America • Charlotte, NC

118d • $145,000 - $192,900

About The Position

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day. Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates' physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve. Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations. At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us! Our Cyber Threat Hunting, Intelligence & Defense team within Bank of America's Cyber Security Defense function works to continuously strengthen the bank's cyber security posture through research, threat simulations, threat hunting, and offensive security engagements. This team works with partners throughout the bank to both discover and develop mitigations from threats to help secure a critical infrastructure around the world that interacts with millions of customers.

Requirements

• Direct experience performing threat hunting in an active corporate environment.
• 8+ years of experience in Security Operation, Incident Response, Detection Engineering, Offensive Security/Red Team, or Cyber Threat Intelligence.
• Experience analyzing system, network, and application logging for attack techniques at all stages of the cyber kill chain.
• Direct experience working with large datasets and log analysis tools including 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.
• Ability to communicate threat hunt objectives and associated risks clearly.
• Ability to navigate and work effectively across a complex, geographically dispersed organization.
• Experience with enterprise scale EDR and SIEM tools.
• Previous experience performing digital forensics or incident response on major security incidents.
• Demonstrated ability to self-direct with minimal supervision.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of basic Data Science concepts and processes.
• Experience with offensive security tools such as Cobalt Strike/Metasploit.
• Experience performing security analysis and threat hunting in Cloud environments such as Azure, M365, AWS.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and correlate large data sets to uncover novel threats and attack techniques within the bank's environments.
• Collaborate with data science, threat research, and cyber defense control teams to develop analytical methods to detect advanced threat actors.
• Develop and document new and innovative threat hunt hypotheses to increase the team's ability to find existing threats.
• Share knowledge and mentor junior members of the threat hunt team.
• Work with Cyber Defense operational and technical teams to develop valuable hunt strategies and analytics.
• Advise on and review product assessments, policy adjustments, and architectural transformations.

Benefits

• Industry-leading benefits.
• Access to paid time off.
• Resources and support for employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Credit Intermediation and Related Activities