Cyber Threat Hunter: Proactive Defense & MITRE Expert

MANTECH; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

MANTECH seeks a motivated Cyber Threat Hunter to join our team in McLean, VA. Leverage your cybersecurity background to detect, investigate, and mitigate threats within a large enterprise environment.

Responsibilities include proactive threat hunting, hypothesis development, data analysis from multiple sources, and producing detailed reports with root cause analysis and remediation recommendations. Active TS/SCI not required here; candidates should have strong security chops and willingness to

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional experience in cyber security, incident response, or related role.
• Experience with SIEM platforms, EDR, and network traffic analysis.
• Understanding of cloud environments (AWS, Azure, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Proactively hunt threats using the HMM-4 approach and MITRE ATT&CK framework.
• Develop hypotheses for targeted threat hunts from threat intel and internal data.
• Collaborate with teams to collect and analyze security data from logs, alerts, and endpoints.
• Use advanced tools to identify IOCs and anomalies indicating threats.
• Analyze threats and recommend remediation and enhanced detections.

Skills

Threat hunting

MITRE ATT&CK

SIEM platforms

EDR solutions

Network traffic analysis

Cloud environments (AWS/Azure)

Threat intelligence

Education

Bachelor’s degree in cyber security / information security / related IT field

Job description

MANTECH seeks a motivated Cyber Threat Hunter to join our team in McLean, VA. Leverage your cybersecurity background to detect, investigate, and mitigate threats within a large enterprise environment.

Responsibilities include proactive threat hunting, hypothesis development, data analysis from multiple sources, and producing detailed reports with root cause analysis and remediation recommendations. Active TS/SCI not required here; candidates should have strong security chops and willingness to