Associate Principal, Cyber Threat Hunting & Response

Kroll; Manila; On-site; PHP 1,100,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Kroll is seeking a skilled security professional in Manila to join our Responder monitoring and response team as an Associate Principal. You will perform threat hunting, investigation, and rapid response using leading EDR/SIEM tools and collaborate with global teams to protect client data and operations.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in threat hunting and incident response, with strong Windows/Linux fundamentals, scripting skills, and relevant certifications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Cyber Security, Computer Engineering, or similar technical degree.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in threat hunting, detection, and response or equivalent experience.
• Ability to respond rapidly, multi-task, and communicate effectively both verbally and in writing with customers, team members, and engagement managers.
• Highly motivated, tenacious, assertive problem solver with a desire to analyze root cause and reach effective conclusions to active intrusions and incidents on an ongoing basis both individually and as part of larger response teams.
• Solid understanding of Windows operating system fundamentals, architecture (File System, registry, processes, binaries, DLL’s, etc.) and administration concepts. Similar understanding of MacOS and/or Linux a plus.
• Prior experience actively using endpoint threat detection and response (EDR) products to investigate threats such as SentinelOne, Crowdstrike Falcon, VMWare Carbon Black, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Cortex XDR, Trend Micro XDR, or others.
• Understanding of common threat actor techniques, malware behavior and persistence mechanisms.
• Working knowledge of various scripting languages and tools (PowerShell, Python, VB, Yara)
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP and related networking concepts.
• Prior experience using Splunk or other SIEM solutions, intrusion detection solutions, or related security products.
• Relevant cyber security certifications including CISSP, GCIA, GCIH, GCFA, GMON, or GREM a plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Availability for occasional after-hours, weekends, and/or holiday work in response to active incidents.

Responsibilities

• Perform ongoing threat hunting, analysis, containment, and remediation of threats identified through advanced endpoint detection and response (EDR), endpoint prevention (EPP), SIEM, and related security tools.
• Collect and review relevant forensic artifacts to identify root cause and understand nature of threats.
• Develop and communicate written and verbal threat reports associated with events to customers.
• Assist in ongoing research, development, and testing of enhanced threat detection and response tools, techniques, and indicators.
• Support incident engagement teams with active intrusion detection and response tasks.
• Conduct threat research, forensic analysis, and basic malware analysis of threats.
• Actively participate in related client meetings and teleconferences.
• Assist clients with questions regarding threat detections, EDR tools, deployment, and maintenance.

Skills

Threat hunting

Incident response

Threat analytics

Threat reporting

Client communication

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Scripting (PowerShell, Python)

Networking concepts

Windows fundamentals

Linux/macOS familiarity

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Cyber Security, Computer Engineering, or similar technical degree

Tools

SentinelOne

CrowdStrike Falcon

VMware Carbon Black

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Cortex XDR

Trend Micro XDR

Splunk

SIEM

Job description

Kroll is seeking a skilled security professional in Manila to join our Responder monitoring and response team as an Associate Principal. You will perform threat hunting, investigation, and rapid response using leading EDR/SIEM tools and collaborate with global teams to protect client data and operations.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in threat hunting and incident response, with strong Windows/Linux fundamentals, scripting skills, and relevant certifications.