Cybersecurity Threat Analyst Subject Matter Expert IV

Invictus International Consulting, LLC; Colorado Springs (CO); On-site; USD 161,000 - 219,000; Full time

Job summary

Invictus International Consulting, LLC is seeking a Cybersecurity Threat Analyst Subject Matter Expert IV in Colorado Springs, CO. The role requires TS/SCI with CI polygraph and leads proactive threat hunting initiatives across networks, endpoints, and identity telemetry.

You will develop hunt campaigns, validate analytic models, and translate findings into actionable defense improvements while mentoring junior analysts and coordinating with incident response and engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline; 4 years of additional experience may substitute for a degree.
• Eight or more years of relevant experience in threat hunting, adversary analysis, or cyber defense.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior technical authority for proactive threat hunting within the SOC.
• Lead development of the SOC threat-hunting methodology and hunt lifecycle.
• Proactively search enterprise network, endpoint, identity, SIEM for indicators of compromise.

Skills

Threat hunting

Adversary analysis

Cyber defense analysis

Threat intelligence

MITRE ATT&CK

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline

Job description

Title: Cybersecurity Threat Analyst Subject Matter Expert IV

Location: Colorado Springs, CO

Clearance: TS/SCI with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph

Job Details

• Serve as the senior technical authority for proactive threat hunting and adversary-focused analysis within the SOC
• Lead development of the SOC threat-hunting methodology, hunt lifecycle, prioritization model, documentation standards, quality criteria, and integration with watch operations and engineering
• Proactively search across enterprise network, endpoint, identity, SIEM, and other security telemetry for indicators of compromise and behavioral evidence of malicious activity that has evaded automated detection
• Develop and direct advanced hunt campaigns based on threat intelligence, adversary TTPs, mission priorities, predictive/advanced analytics, environmental changes, incidents, and identified detection gaps
• Assess and validate analytical or predictive models and determine whether identified patterns represent meaningful adversary behavior, benign activity, or require additional collection and analysis
• Lead complex analytical pivots across multiple sources and enclaves and direct expansion of scope when evidence indicates broader adversary activity
• Ensure actionable hunt findings are transitioned to incident response, watch operations, detection engineering, or security engineering with clear evidence and recommended actions
• Provide senior technical input to daily/weekly SOC reporting, leadership briefings, threat assessments, and defensive priorities
• Establish reusable hunt playbooks, analytical techniques, ATT&CK mappings, queries, knowledge repositories, and lessons-learned processes
• Mentor threat analysts at all levels and provide technical leadership for exercises, training, and proficiency development
• Identify telemetry and detection blind spots and work with engineering teams to improve collection, analytics, enrichment, and automated detection coverage

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institute in a technical discipline applicable to the position; an additional 4 years of may be substituted in lieu of a degree
• Minimum of eight (8) years of relevant experience in addition to education level
• Expert-level hands-on experience in threat hunting, adversary analysis, advanced cyber defense analysis, or closely related work
• Demonstrated experience leading complex hunt campaigns and identifying malicious activity not detected through routine alerting
• Expert knowledge of adversary TTPs, MITRE ATT&CK, threat intelligence operationalization, network/endpoint/identity telemetry, and analytical methodologies
• Experience establishing or materially improving a threat-hunting or proactive cyber‑defense program
• Experience translating hunt findings into detection engineering requirements and measurable defensive improvements
• Must possess current DoD 8570 IAT II or IAM II certification
• Experience working in a DoD or IC environment
• Current active TS/SCI clearance, with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veteran/Disabled

Salary: $190000 per year