Cyber Threat Hunter: Proactive Security & IR

Metropolitan Bank & Trust Company; Metro Manila; On-site; PHP 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Metrobank seeks a Security Threat Hunter to research threat intelligence feeds, identify indicators of attacks, and proactively detect threats within Metrobank's networks in Metro Manila. You will analyze events, coordinate with SOC/IR teams, and help optimize monitoring tools through threat-hunting insights.

The role requires involvement in threat intelligence communities, strong communication skills, and the ability to work overtime during critical incidents. On-call responsibilities may apply.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor's Degree in a relevant area of study with a preference for Information Security, Computer Science or Computer Engineering
• Familiar with using tools related to: data security analytics and visualization, ethical hacking
• Involvement in threat intelligence and cybersecurity communities.
• Skills in sourcing, digesting and acting on threat intelligence feeds
• Ethical hacking skills a big plus but not essential
• Willingness to work overtime and adjust to reasonable demands from management in case of critical incidents being escalated to CTHI for immediate handling
• Excellent English communication (both written and verbal) and presentation skills
• Task and deliverable management skills

Responsibilities

• Researches threat intelligence feeds to identify indicator of attacks/compromise for correlation to internal events.
• Proactively search for threats to identify, analyze and report on any malicious or suspicious activities and trends that could be indicative of risk.
• Recognize potential, successful, and unsuccessful intrusion attempts through review and analysis of relevant event detail and summary information.
• Identify and characterize new emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and risks.
• Recommends how to optimize security monitoring tools based on threat hunting discoveries.
• Work closely with SOC and IR Team to get direct feedback about new, unknown suspicious behavior, and indicators.
• Develops actionable intelligence to drive countermeasure development
• Develop, review and recommend improvements on use cases, playbooks and vulnerability management reporting.
• Work with remediation (ITG) teams on events and incident mitigation
• Other task that may be assigned. by the CTMD Head

Skills

Threat hunting

Threat intelligence

Incident response collaboration

Communication skills

Security analytics

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Security / Computer Science / Computer Engineering

Tools

Data security analytics tools

Visualization tools

Ethical hacking tools

Job description

Metrobank seeks a Security Threat Hunter to research threat intelligence feeds, identify indicators of attacks, and proactively detect threats within Metrobank's networks in Metro Manila. You will analyze events, coordinate with SOC/IR teams, and help optimize monitoring tools through threat-hunting insights.

The role requires involvement in threat intelligence communities, strong communication skills, and the ability to work overtime during critical incidents. On-call responsibilities may apply.