Network Threat Hunter

Cellco Partnership; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Verizon is seeking a Network Threat Hunter to proactively identify threats within its network. The role combines security expertise with networking knowledge to predict, mitigate, and respond to threats that could impact network operations.

The candidate should have strong analytical skills, a deep understanding of network infrastructure, and a track record of deriving actionable artifacts for stakeholder teams. This role may be located at any US-based Verizon hub.

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 model, protocols, BGP, NetFlow).

Responsibilities

• Staying up-to-date on emerging global threat activity and trends affecting telecommunications infrastructure.
• Leading analysis of network traffic and events to identify threats and present insights to stakeholders.
• Evolving threat hunting techniques using internal and external data sources and intelligence.
• Conducting time-sensitive analysis during cyber investigations, including active threat hunting and malware analysis.
• Identifying potential threat vectors and vulnerabilities through log data, malware, packet captures, analytics, and other artifacts.

Skills

Analytical skills

Critical thinking

Networking knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

When you join Verizon

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely - even if they're daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love - driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together - lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife.

Network Threat Hunter

The Network Threat Hunting role is crucial for maintaining the security of Verizon's network. Their primary objective is to proactively identify threats within Verizon's network. Professionals in this role combine their deep knowledge of security and networking with an understanding of the current threat landscape and various attack methodologies. By providing actionable intelligence to network and security teams, they aim to predict, mitigate, prevent, or respond to active and potential threats that could negatively impact Verizon's network operations.

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.

***This role can be located in any US based Verizon hub location.***

What we're looking for...

Verizon seeks a threat hunter with strong critical thinking and analytical skills, comprehensive knowledge of Verizon's network and security mechanisms, and a current understanding of the evolving threat landscape. This individual will be responsible for deriving insights from extensive network data to identify threats potentially overlooked by automated systems. The threat hunter will leverage historical events, logs, and data enrichment within a collaborative environment to connect disparate information, think creatively and generate actionable artifacts for stakeholder teams. These efforts will be crucial in proactively safeguarding Verizon's network and customers from current and future threats. The successful candidate will demonstrate a commitment to continuous learning, contributing to the evolution of threat hunting methodologies within the broader threat intelligence organization, and supporting partner stakeholder organizations.

You’ll need to have:

• 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 experience (including OSI model, protocols, BGP data and Netflow).

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Four or more years of experience in cyber related fields including but not limited to cyber security, information technology, SIEM security tools, cyber security investigations Network Security, Computer Security, Intelligence Analysis, Information Assurance, Incident Response, Intrusion Detection, Ma