Cyber Threat Hunt Lead

Gritter Francona is seeking a Cyber Threat Hunt Lead to support a potential project with the Department of Homeland Security, specifically for the Department of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). This role involves building and guiding a proactive threat hunting capability to detect malicious activity that evades traditional security solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Cyber Threat Hunt (CTH) team to proactively and iteratively conduct threat hunting efforts against CBP networks, systems, and high-value assets to detect and isolate advanced threats.
• Utilize threat models and Cyber Threat Intelligence to formulate hypotheses about attacker activity on CBP networks and systems for formal hunt missions.
• Propose corrective actions, report security issues, and communicate cybersecurity best practices to necessary parties.
• Collaborate with the CBP SOC to create new security content, including signatures and detection alerts, based on hunt missions and Purple Team engagements.
• Report significant findings to leadership and coordinate with asset owners to deconflict findings.

Requirements

• A minimum of five (5) years of experience as a Tier III senior cyber threat hunt analyst performing threat analysis, technical analysis, and network asset traversal.
• A minimum of five (5) years of hands-on experience, including recent experience with network-based security monitoring using cybersecurity capabilities.
• A strong background in host and network-based forensics, intrusion detection, malware identification, and security content development.
• Deep knowledge of and experience with security information and event management (SIEM) and networked-device management tools such as Splunk and Tanium.
• Experience interpreting scripts (e.g., VB scripts, Python, C++) to support cyber threat detection.
• Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) or one of the following: DoD 8570 IAT Level II, IAM Level I, or CSSP Analyst / Incident Responder.

Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
• Short Term & Long Term Disability
• Training & Development