Cyber Threat Hunter: Proactive Security Operator

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company; Baton Rouge (LA); On-site; USD 94,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company, is seeking a Cyber Threat Hunter who will proactively protect enterprise environments by analyzing network, endpoint, and log data to identify malicious activity that may evade conventional security controls.

This role involves establishing baselines, collaborating with SOC to refine alerts, and developing automation workflows to improve detection and incident response maturity across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in IT, CS, or cybersecurity, or equivalent experience.
• 4 years of experience in cybersecurity or a closely related technical security role.
• Demonstrated ability to perform system administrator-level analysis across multiple platforms and operating systems in support of cyber investigations.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify, track, and assess adversary TTPs and suspicious activity.
• Knowledge of intrusion detection methodologies, evidence preservation practices, and cyber defense and information security policies, procedures, and regulations.

Responsibilities

• Proactively hunt threats across networks, endpoints, and security datasets to identify, isolate, and eradicate advanced threats before they impact operations.
• Analyze logs from multiple sources to detect suspicious behavior and validate threat activity.
• Establish and maintain baseline patterns for normal traffic, system activity, and data flows to improve anomaly detection and investigative accuracy.
• Collaborate with SOC analysts and detection engineers to recommend new alerts, analytics, and monitoring logic based on threat hunting findings, emerging trends, and visibility gaps.
• Develop automation scripts and workflows to streamline threat hunting activities, automate repetitive analytical tasks, and reduce detection and response time.
• Research and track adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), developing technical hypotheses and investigative leads based on threat intelligence and observed behaviors.
• Support incident response activities by creating incident documentation, follow-up actions, reporting criteria, and recommendations that improve overall response maturity and operational resilience.
• Examine and characterize malware and cyber threats to determine threat nature, scope, and potential impact.
• Apply reverse engineering and binary analysis techniques to support vulnerability research and understand malicious code behavior.

Skills

Threat hunting

Log analysis

Malware analysis

TTP identification

Detection engineering

Threat intelligence

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in IT/Cybersecurity

Tools

Ghidra

IDA Pro

SOAR platforms

Python

PowerShell

Job description

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company, is seeking a Cyber Threat Hunter who will proactively protect enterprise environments by analyzing network, endpoint, and log data to identify malicious activity that may evade conventional security controls.

This role involves establishing baselines, collaborating with SOC to refine alerts, and developing automation workflows to improve detection and incident response maturity across the organization.