Information Security Specialist - Attack Surface Reduction (Cyber Threat Hunting)

TD Bank Group; Toronto; On-site; CAD 97,000 - 137,000; Full time

Job summary

TD Bank Group is seeking a senior cybersecurity hunter to hunt on MITRE ATT&CK aligned threats, identify risk gaps, and deliver detection and mitigation recommendations for the enterprise and cloud. You will work with intelligence, SOC, IR, and security engineering teams to improve overall defense and respond to emerging threats.

The role requires strong analytics, experience with SIEM/EDR/SOAR tools, and cloud hunting expertise, with a focus on reducing the bank's attack surface and informing

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in IT/Cyber or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of cyber security experience; 3+ years in malware reverse engineering, threat hunting, DFIR, threat detection or threat intelligence (preferred).
• Expert knowledge of log management, security analytics and event management platform mechanics.
• Experience with SIEM, SOAR, EDR, cloud-native tools, and other cyber security tool sets.
• Advanced knowledge of Endpoint & IAM architectures, operations, and investigations; cloud hunting experience preferred.
• Proficient in Security Incident & Event Management and Endpoint Detection & Response tooling (e.g., Splunk ES, CrowdStrike).
• Coding/scripting and APIs; Python experience a plus.

Responsibilities

• Hunt on TTPs, threats/risks and vulnerabilities aligned to MITRE Att&ck framework.
• Identify threats and propose detection/mitigation to reduce attack surface.
• Participate in proactive ASR operations within enterprise and cloud environments.
• Develop methodologies to identify threat tools, techniques, and procedures.
• Produce metrics and dashboards for threats, anomalies and malware.
• Tune detection infrastructure with tech teams to identify emerging threats.
• Document best practices to enhance hunting playbooks and actions.
• Serve as SME for host-based and network-based hunting across teams.

Skills

Threat hunting

Security analytics

Endpoint & IAM

SIEM/SOAR/EDR

Cloud security

Windows/Mac/Linux

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in IT/Cyber

Tools

Splunk ES

CrowdStrike

Logscale

Defender for Endpoint

MS Sentinel

KQL

Job description

Work Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Hours: 37.5 Line of Business: Technology Solutions Pay Details: $96,900 - $136,800 CAD TD is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities to all colleagues. Growth opportunities and skill development are defining features of the colleague experience at TD. Our compensation policies and practices have been designed to allow colleagues to progress through the salary range over time as they progress in their role. The base pay actually offered may vary based upon the candidate's skills and experience, job-related knowledge, geographic location, and other specific business and organizational needs. As a candidate, you are encouraged to ask compensation related questions and have an open dialogue with your recruiter who can provide you more specific details for this role.

Job Description: Role and Responsibilities

• Hunt on TTPs, threats/risks and/or vulnerabilities aligned to the MITRE Att3ck framework based on both internal and external intelligence data.
• Proactively identify possible threats, risks or security control gaps to the enterprise and produce detection & mitigation recommendations to reduce the overall Attack Surface for the bank.
• Participate in proactive ASR operations within the enterprise and cloud using threat intelligence, analysis of anomalous log data and results of brainstorming sessions to detect and mitigate threats.
• Develop advanced methodologies to identify threat adversary tools, techniques, and procedures.
• Produce metrics and develop dashboards to identify potential threats, suspicious/anomalous activity, malware, etc.
• Drive the tuning of detection infrastructure with technology teams to identify emerging threats.
• Document best practices to enhance hunting playbooks, procedures, and courses of action.
• This role is considered a subject matter expert for hunting via host-based and network-based analysis and will work cross-functionally with their peers on other teams such as intelligence, SOC analysts, IR team, and security engineering.
• Proactively review internal processes and activities and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Influence behavior to reduce risk and foster a strong information security management culture throughout the enterprise.
• Remain informed of emerging issues, industry trends and/or relevant changes to the security landscape.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree/Master's degree (preferred) in an IT/Cyber-related field or equivalent experience.
• At least 7+ years of cyber security experience; 3+ years of experience in a malware reverse engineering, threat hunting, DFIR, threat detection or threat intelligence position (preferred).
• Expert knowledge of log management, security analytics and event management platform mechanics.
• Experienced with SIEM, SOAR, EDR, cloud-native tools, and other cyber security tool sets.
• Advanced knowledge of Endpoint & Identity/IAM architectures, operations, and investigations; cloud hunting experience is preferred.
• Displayed proficiency in Security Incident & Event Management and Endpoint Detection & Response tooling; Splunk ES, CrowdStrike, Logscale, Defender for Endpoint (MDE)/ MS Sentinel, Wiz Defend.
• Optional/Good to have: Netskope, Akamai, AppOmni, Qualys & Symantec DLP experience.
• Deep understanding of coding/scripting and APIs in support of investigations, localized automation, and integrations; Python experience a plus.
• Must be able to identify and generate detection logic to enhance the enterprises defensibility.
• Hands on experience with writing and implementing complex analytics queries, threat visualization dashboards, and large data volume analysis (e.g. Splunk, Logscale, KQL, syslog, etc.).
• Strong working knowledge of security-relevant data, including network protocols, ports and common services, such as TCP/IP network protocols and application layer protocols (e.g. HTTP/S, DNS, FTP, SMTP, Active Directory, etc.).
• Extensive knowledge of Windows, Mac and Linux-based endpoints including operating systems, services, file systems, and agents.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Organizational and self-directing skills.
• Ability to initiate, coordinate and prioritize responsibilities and follow through on tasks to completion.
• Ability to work independently on a variety of assignments with minimal supervision.
• Certifications: Note: Ideal/Preferred candidate would have obtained at least 2 of the certifications from this list. General Cyber certs: CISSP, CISM, CASP+, CEH, GSEC, GCIH, GCIA, GMON. Endpoint / Forensic certs: GREM, GCFE, GCFA, CHFI, CCFE, CFCE, EnCE. Cloud certs: CCSP, CCSK, GCP, AWS, Cloud+, MS Azure Associate or Solutions Architect Expert. Pen-testing certs: GPEN, CPENT, eCPPT, OSCP, OSCE. Coding/Scripting/SIEM certs: SPLUNK and/or KQL Certification, Scripting/Python certificate.

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