Staff Threat Hunting & Intelligence Engineer

About the role

This role brings together threat intelligence, threat hunting, and engineering. You will track the sophisticated adversaries Splunk may face, deliver timely intelligence that supports incident response, hunt for adversary activity across very large datasets, and build the automation and tooling that turns intelligence and hunt findings into repeatable, scalable capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Track the sophisticated adversaries Splunk may face
• Deliver timely intelligence that supports incident response
• Hunt for adversary activity across very large datasets
• Build the automation and tooling that turns intelligence and hunt findings into repeatable, automated capabilities
• Uncover adversary activity missed by current detection rules and hand findings to Detection Engineering to close the gap
• Craft compelling written products, presentations, and RFI responses that give decision advantage to technical and non-technical audiences
• Mentor analysts and engineers growing across threat intelligence, hunting, and engineering

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional cybersecurity experience, with demonstrable time across cyber threat intelligence and/or threat hunting
• Experience with sophisticated searching and reporting in Splunk, and the ability to build and interpret SPL fluidly
• Experience translating large datasets into meaningful information, with the relentless focus to continue a hunt when there are no easy wins
• Understanding of attacker behavior and the ability to translate intelligence and hunt findings into repeatable, automated capabilities
• Experience applying AI to accelerate development and analysis

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications: 8+ years of professional cybersecurity experience, with demonstrable time across cyber threat intelligence and/or threat hunting
• Preferred Qualifications: Experience leading threat actor and campaign attribution, strong programming proficiency in one or more languages to build scripts and API automation for threat-data ingestion and processing, hands-on experience with DevOps, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD tooling, willingness to participate in an on-call rotation, including afterhours support during major incidents, expertise in uncovering adversary activity missed by industry detection rules, experience with network and host-based logs, and a solid understanding of common services (DNS, DHCP, email, proxy, VPN, firewall, etc.), expertise in cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, or Azure), and a robust understanding of Linux

Skills

• Experience with Splunk
• Programming proficiency in one or more languages
• Experience with DevOps, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD tooling
• Experience with cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Experience with network and host-based logs
• Experience with AI

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Short and long-term disability coverage
• Basic life insurance
• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year
• 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
• 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
• Flexible vacation time off program for exempt employees
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

Pay

The starting salary range posted for this position is $160,700.00 to $203,500.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training.

Schedule

The role participates in an on-call rotation, and the nature of the work may include afterhours support during major incidents.