Senior Cyber Threat Hunt Analyst (TS/SCI)

Agile Defense, Inc.; Springfield (VA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Life Insurance

PTO

Holiday Pay

Disability Insurance

Retirement

Learning & Development

Job summary

Agile Defense, Inc. in Springfield, VA seeks a Cyber Hunt Analyst III to proactively identify and analyze sophisticated threats across enterprise networks, endpoints, and cloud environments.

The role requires hypothesis-driven threat hunts, tracking TTPs, and producing actionable intelligence to improve detection and response. You will collaborate with SOC, security engineers, and intelligence analysts to strengthen defenses.

Qualifications

• Independent technical judgment across multiple threat hunting methodologies.
• Ability to translate investigative findings into detection engineering improvements and actionable recommendations.
• 5–7 years of cybersecurity experience with 2–3 years in threat hunting, incident response, security monitoring, digital forensics, or detection engineering.

Responsibilities

• Proactively identify, investigate, and analyze sophisticated cyber threats across enterprise networks, endpoints, cloud environments, and information systems.
• Conduct hypothesis-driven threat hunts, analyze complex security telemetry, identify adversary TTPs, and develop actionable intelligence to improve detection and response.
• Apply advanced knowledge of threat actor behavior, digital forensics, network security, EDR, and SIEM to discover malicious activity that may evade automated controls.
• Support complex incident response investigations and collaborate with threat hunters, security engineers, intelligence analysts, and SOC personnel.

Skills

Threat hunting

Incident response

Detection engineering

Digital forensics

SIEM

EDR

Education

5–7 years cybersecurity experience (2–3 in threat hunting/IR)

Tools

SIEM

EDR

Job description

Agile Defense, Inc. in Springfield, VA seeks a Cyber Hunt Analyst III to proactively identify and analyze sophisticated threats across enterprise networks, endpoints, and cloud environments.

The role requires hypothesis-driven threat hunts, tracking TTPs, and producing actionable intelligence to improve detection and response. You will collaborate with SOC, security engineers, and intelligence analysts to strengthen defenses.