Hybrid Network Threat Hunter & Analyst

Verizon; Ashburn (VA); Hybrid; USD 101,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Verizon is seeking a Network Threat Hunter to proactively identify threats within its network and provide actionable intelligence to security teams. The role requires strong analytical skills, deep knowledge of networking, and current threat landscape awareness.

Responsibilities include leading threat analysis, developing hunting techniques, and documenting findings. The position is hybrid, with some in-office work and collaboration across teams within Verizon's threat intelligence organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Four or more years of relevant work experience.
• Five+ years designing, testing or operating networks with switching and routing (OSI, BGP, NetFlow).

Responsibilities

• Staying up-to-date on emerging global threat activity and trends.
• Leading analysis of network traffic and events to identify threats.
• Creating and evolving threat hunting techniques using intelligence sources.
• Conducting time-sensitive analysis during cyber investigations and malware analysis.
• Identifying potential threat vectors and vulnerabilities through log data and artifacts.
• Creating hypotheses and predictions of possible network threats and validating with partner teams.
• Maintaining documentation on threat hunting findings and processes.
• Providing recommendations on tools, capabilities or datasets to support goals.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Programming scripting

Data analytics

Machine learning

Threat hunting

Incident response

Education

Bachelor's degree or 4+ years experience

Master's degree or related certs

Tools

Splunk

Elastic Search

Grafana

Netscout

Job description

Verizon is seeking a Network Threat Hunter to proactively identify threats within its network and provide actionable intelligence to security teams. The role requires strong analytical skills, deep knowledge of networking, and current threat landscape awareness.

Responsibilities include leading threat analysis, developing hunting techniques, and documenting findings. The position is hybrid, with some in-office work and collaboration across teams within Verizon's threat intelligence organization.