Senior Threat Hunter - Boston

Job Description

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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!

Role Responsibilities

• Analyze and correlate large data sets to uncover novel threats and attack techniques that may be present within the bank's environments.
• Collaborate 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.
• Develop and document new and innovative threat hunt hypotheses to increase the team's ability to find existing threats that are otherwise going unidentified or unnoticed.
• Actively share knowledge and mentor more junior members of the threat hunt team.
• Work 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.
• Advise on and review product assessments, policy adjustments, and architectural transformations that impact the global Corporation, and be a thought leader in the design of cutting-edge detective, preventative, and proactive controls.

Required Skills

• 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.
• 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.
• Familiarity with offensive security strategies and assessment methodology.
• Ability to apply Cyber Threat Intelligence through enrichment, correlation, and attribution.
• Ability to explain 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 incident response on major security incidents.
• Demonstrated ability to self-direct, with minimal supervision to achieve assigned goals.

Beneficial But Not Required

• 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.