Threat Hunting Engineer Lead

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About the role

The Threat Hunting Engineer Lead is a technical leader in the Cencora Security Operations Center who applies their knowledge of adversarial tactics and techniques and their experience with security controls, infrastructure, and networking to proactively investigate potential cyber threats. They will use their findings to improve detection, response, and security controls.

Responsibilities

• Conduct threat hunting to identify, classify, prioritize, and report on cyber threats following industry best practices.
• Conduct research on emerging security threats; provide correlation and trending of cyber incident activity.
• Craft methodologies for monitoring, detection, and analytics for SIEM, EDR, SOAR, and other platforms.
• Provide security gap analysis and effectiveness assessments of security platform technologies.
• Formulate methodologies to monitor for as well as respond to security related events.
• Identify and correlate with other data sources to enhance security event detection, monitoring, and response capabilities.
• Collaborate across multiple teams on the response to information security incidents, investigation, countermeasures, and recovery.
• Analyze security incidents for further enhancement of alerting schema.
• Provide security briefings to advise on critical issues that may affect the enterprise.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent work experience.
• 7+ years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, with at least 4 years dedicated to incident response, forensics, threat hunting, threat detection, or related role.
• Expertise with common threat detection and logging platforms for SIEM, EDR, SOAR, etc.
• Strong understanding of network protocols, operating system internals (Windows, Linux, MacOS), cloud security, and defensive security technologies.
• Familiarity with intelligence frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK.
• Hands-on experience with at least one scripting or programming language for tooling and automation (e.g., Python, Go, Powershell).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical findings to a non-technical audience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in cyber security, computer science, information technology, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of experience in cyber threat intelligence, cyber security, security operations, incident response, threat analysis, or a related field.
• Certified in Cybersecurity (CC) or equivalent certification.
• Certified Threat Intelligence Analyst (CTIA) or equivalent certification.
• Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) or equivalent certification.
• GIAC GCFA — Certified Forensic Analyst.
• GIAC GCFR — Cloud Forensics Responder.
• GIAC GNFA — Network Forensic Analyst.
• GIAC GCIA — Certified Intrusion Analyst.
• GIAC GCDA — Certified Detection Analyst.
• GIAC GDAT — Defending Advanced Threats.

Benefits

We provide compensation, benefits, and resources that enable a highly inclusive culture and support our team members’ ability to live with purpose every day. In addition to traditional offerings like medical, dental, and vision care, we also provide a comprehensive suite of benefits that focus on the physical, emotional, financial, and social aspects of wellness. This encompasses support for working families, which may include backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave. To encourage your personal growth, we also offer a variety of training programs, professional development resources, and opportunities to participate in mentorship programs, employee resource groups, volunteer activities, and much more.