Hybrid Network Threat Hunter — Proactive Defense

Verizon; Basking Ridge (NJ); Hybrid; USD 101,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Verizon is seeking a Network Threat Hunter to proactively identify threats within its network, leveraging threat intel, logs, and behavioral analytics. The role emphasizes collaboration with security teams to predict, mitigate, and respond to active and emerging threats.

The candidate should combine strong analytical skills with deep knowledge of network security, incident response, and threat detection techniques, in a hybrid work setup.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Four or more years of relevant work experience.
• Four more years of experience in 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 the analysis of network traffic and events to identify threats.
• Creating and evolving threat hunting techniques using internal and external data.
• Conducting time-sensitive analysis during cyber investigations.
• Proactively identifying threat vectors through log data and artifacts.

Skills

Critical thinking

Analytical skills

Data analysis

Threat hunting

Scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Splunk

Elastic Search

Grafana

Netscout

Job description

Verizon is seeking a Network Threat Hunter to proactively identify threats within its network, leveraging threat intel, logs, and behavioral analytics. The role emphasizes collaboration with security teams to predict, mitigate, and respond to active and emerging threats.

The candidate should combine strong analytical skills with deep knowledge of network security, incident response, and threat detection techniques, in a hybrid work setup.