Network Threat Hunter — Proactive Defender

Verizon; Basking Ridge (NJ); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Verizon is seeking a Network Threat Hunter to proactively identify threats within the telecom network. You will analyze wide data sources, develop hunting techniques, and provide actionable artifacts to stakeholders, guiding incident response and defense strategies.

The role requires deep expertise in network security, threat intelligence, and data enrichment, with collaboration across teams. A hybrid work arrangement is available in the US, with a focus on continuous learning and practical

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 experience (including OSI model, protocols, BGP data and NetFlow).
• 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, Malware Analysis, Information Security Management, Penetration Testing, Vulnerability Management, Red team, Blue Team, Purple Team.
• Working knowledge of tools such as Splunk and Elastic Search, Grafana, Netscout

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.***

Skills

Threat hunting

Network analysis

Security fundamentals

Analytical thinking

Scripting/Programming

Incident response

Education

Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience

Four or more years of relevant work experience

Networking design and routing (OSI, BGP, NetFlow)

Tools

Splunk

Elasticsearch

Grafana

Netscout

Job description

Verizon is seeking a Network Threat Hunter to proactively identify threats within the telecom network. You will analyze wide data sources, develop hunting techniques, and provide actionable artifacts to stakeholders, guiding incident response and defense strategies.

The role requires deep expertise in network security, threat intelligence, and data enrichment, with collaboration across teams. A hybrid work arrangement is available in the US, with a focus on continuous learning and practical