Threat Hunter

Tekskills; Mumbai; On-site; INR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Tekskills is seeking a security professional in Mumbai with 2 to 5 years of experience in cyber security to join the threat hunting team. The role focuses on proactively identifying hidden threats within banking environments, building and refining a threat hunting framework, and leveraging MITRE ATT&CK, IOAs/IOCs, and threat intel inputs to drive continuous improvements.

The candidate will collaborate with security operations, utilize SIEM and related tools, and contribute to incident detection

Qualifications

• B.E / B.Tech in Cyber Security or related fields.
• 2 to 5 years of experience in security domains.
• Certification mandatory: any-one from EC-Council/CompTIA/GIAC, etc.
• Product certifications on SOC security tools preferred.

Responsibilities

• Establishing threat hunting framework and its continuous enhancement.
• Threat hunting per the outlined strategy and quarterly goals.
• Formulating hypotheses about potential threats from known vulns or actor behaviors.
• Leveraging security tools deployed in the bank environment.
• IOCs/IOAs driven, MITRE ATT&CK based, threat intel driven hunting.
• Documenting scenarios, findings, and updating detection systems.
• Correlation of multi-vector attack vectors and contextual threat awareness.

Skills

Threat Hunting

MITRE ATT&CK

Threat intel

Analytics

Education

B.E / B.Tech in Cyber Security / CS / IT / EC Engineering

Equivalent degree in relevant discipline

Information Technology / Software Engineering

Tools

SIEM Tools

Threat Hunting Tools

Vulnerability Management

Job description

Exp Level: 2 to 5 years

Educational Qualification

I. B.E / B. Tech in:

• a) Cyber Security Computer Science/Computer Science & Engineering
• b) Information Technology/ Software Engineering/
• c) Electronics & Communications Engineering
• d) Or equivalent degree in relevant discipline

II.

• a) Computer Science
• b) Information Technology
• c) Electronic & Communications Engineering

Required Certification Mandatory (Any-one):

• Certified SOC Analyst (EC- Council)
• Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator (EC- Council)
• Certified Ethical Hacker (EC-Council)
• CompTIA Security+
• CompTIA CySA+ (Cybersecurity Analyst)
• GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH) or equivalent.

Product Certifications (Preferred):

Product Certifications on SOC Security Tools such as

• SIEM/Vulnerability Management/ DAM/UBA/ SOAR/NBA etc.

Key Roles & Responsibilities

Proactively search for hidden and undetected cyber threats in banks environment.

• Establishing threat Hunting framework and continuous enhancement of the framework.
• Threat Hunting should be performed as per the outlined strategy & quarterly goals.
• Formulating hypothesis about potential threats based on known vulnerabilities, threat actor behaviors or anomalies in the environment.
• Leveraging security tools deployed in the bank.
• Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) or Indicators of Attack (IOAs) driven, hypothesis driven, leveraging frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK, threat intel driven, Analytics Driven threat hunting.
• Documenting threat hunting scenarios, detailing findings and conclusions, updating threat detection systems, and continuous refining of hunting methodologies.
• Correlation of multi-vector & multi-path attack vectors
• Contextual awareness of detected threats