Hybrid Network Threat Hunter: Proactive Defender

Verizon; Irving (TX); 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 involves analyzing traffic, researching threats, and developing hunting techniques across multiple data sources.

Hybrid work setup with a mix of remote and in-office days; requires 4+ years in networking/security and strong analytical skills. Candidates with SIEM, ML or data science experience are encouraged to apply.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Monitor and analyze network traffic to identify threats.
• Lead analysis of anomalies and present actionable insights.
• Develop threat hunting techniques using internal and external data.
• Perform time-sensitive cyber investigations and malware analysis.
• Identify threat vectors and vulnerabilities from logs and traffic.
• Document threat hunting findings and handoffs.
• Suggest tools and datasets to support threat hunting goals.
• Collaborate with threat intelligence partners.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Data analytics

AI/ML experience

Programming

Scripting

Splunk

Elasticsearch

Grafana

Netscout

Threat hunting

Incident response

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SIEM

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 involves analyzing traffic, researching threats, and developing hunting techniques across multiple data sources.

Hybrid work setup with a mix of remote and in-office days; requires 4+ years in networking/security and strong analytical skills. Candidates with SIEM, ML or data science experience are encouraged to apply.