Senior Threat Hunter - Boston

Bank of America•Boston, MA

2d•$145,000 - $192,500•Onsite

About The Position

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. 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!

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 performing threat hunting in an active corporate environment.
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

Analyzing and correlating large data sets to uncover novel threats and attack techniques that may be present within the bank’s environments.
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 new and innovative threat hunt hypotheses to increase the team’s ability to find existing threats that are otherwise going unidentified or unnoticed.
Actively sharing knowledge and mentoring more junior members of the threat hunt team.
Working 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.
Advising on and reviewing product assessments, policy adjustments, and architectural transformations that impact the global Corporation.
Serving as a thought leader in the design of cutting-edge detective, preventative, and proactive controls.