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, scalable 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

• Self-motivated and passionate about tracking threat actors, love the rush of uncovering previously unknown activity, and have the development chops to automate and improve the mission
• 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

Skills

• 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.)
• Proficiency in cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• A robust understanding of Linux

Benefits

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.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks.

Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time. U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:

• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
• 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
• Non-exempt employees receive 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
• Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)
• 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
• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies. Employees On Sales Plans Earn Performance-based Incentive Pay On Top Of Their Base Salary, Which Is Split Between Quota And Non-quota Components, Subject To The Applicable Cisco Plan.