Hybrid Network Threat Hunter — Proactive Cyber Defense

Verizon; Cary (NC); Hybrid; USD 116,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Verizon is seeking a Network Threat Hunter to proactively identify threats within Verizon's global network. Analyze large volumes of network data, correlate logs, and deliver actionable artifacts to security and network teams.

This hybrid role requires deep knowledge of networking, security operations, incident response, and data science techniques. You will mentor colleagues and contribute to evolving threat hunting methods.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or 4+ years of related work experience.
• 4+ years designing, testing or operating networks with switching and routing experience (including OSI model, protocols, BGP data and Netflow).
• Experience with data analytics applied to network data to enable advanced threat detection.

Responsibilities

• Staying up-to-date on emerging global threat activity and trends from both state and non-state actors and the threats they pose to the telecommunications infrastructure.
• Leading the analysis of network traffic and events, anomalous patterns with a focus on threats missed by automated security tools, or are unknown and unprecedented, and presenting actionable insights in artifacts to stakeholder organizations.
• Creating and evolving network threat hunting techniques through analyzing current and past incidents and breaches using internal and external data sources and intelligence.
• Conducting time-sensitive analysis during cyber investigations, including active network threat hunting and malware analysis.
• Proactively identifying potential network threat vectors and vulnerabilities through advanced threat research and analyzing log data, malicious code, packet captures, behavioral analytics and other artifacts to detect active and potential threats.
• Creating hypotheses and predictions of possible network threats and vulnerabilities, and working with other partner teams to validate.
• Cultivating and maintaining strong working relationships with Verizon's network threat intelligence partners and conveying substantive findings from threat hunting findings.
• Creating and maintaining documentation on threat hunting findings, processes and hand offs.
• Providing recommendations on tools, capabilities or datasets that may support the network threat hunting goals.
• Identifying gaps in network logging capabilities and developing strategies to address them.
• Identifying and proposing automated alerts for new and previously unknown network threats.
• Developing expertise on Verizon's network threat landscape using internal data, threat trends, and operational metrics, and clearly communicating this landscape to stakeholders.
• Serving as an expert on network threat hunting methodology and providing peer reviews and mentoring to other team members.
• Ensuring the organization meets established metrics, including administrative, auditory, and KPIs.

Skills

Threat hunting

Network security

Security operations

Incident response

Data analytics

Critical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree or certifications

Tools

Splunk

Elastic Search

Grafana

Netscout

Job description

Verizon is seeking a Network Threat Hunter to proactively identify threats within Verizon's global network. Analyze large volumes of network data, correlate logs, and deliver actionable artifacts to security and network teams.

This hybrid role requires deep knowledge of networking, security operations, incident response, and data science techniques. You will mentor colleagues and contribute to evolving threat hunting methods.