Senior Cyber Threat Hunter & Incident Response Lead

Habitat For Humanity Of Durham; Zebulon (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision benefits

401(k) plan

Paid holidays

Job summary

Habitat For Humanity Of Durham seeks a Senior Cyber Hunt & Respond Engineer to lead advanced threat hunting and incident response in a 24x7 Cyber Fusion Center. You will identify unknown threats, develop hypotheses, and coordinate containment, eradication, and recovery across enterprise environments.

You will perform digital forensics, analyze data sources, and collaborate with security, technology, and business teams to strengthen detection capabilities and security posture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, and work-related experience.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in security engineering or related cybersecurity roles.
• Deep specialized knowledge in cybersecurity principles, theories, and concepts.
• Proven experience in software development lifecycle security practices.
• Deep knowledge of threat modeling, security testing, and penetration testing.
• Experience implementing and managing complex information security technologies.

Responsibilities

• Conduct proactive threat hunting activities to identify previously unknown or undetected threats across enterprise environments.
• Develop, test, and validate threat-hunting hypotheses using internal and external data sources.
• Perform digital forensics and incident response activities, including investigation, root cause analysis, containment, eradication, and recovery.
• Analyze endpoint, network, packet, log, and forensic data to identify malicious activity and determine attack scope and impact.
• Leverage data analysis, automation, and programming techniques to process large datasets and improve threat detection and response capabilities.
• Create and maintain searches, visualizations, analytic content, and advanced detection methodologies to identify emerging threats.
• Investigate suspicious artifacts and activity to distinguish malicious behavior from legitimate business operations.
• Collaborate with security, technology, and business teams to identify data requirements and enhance threat visibility across the organization.
• Provide technical consultation and subject matter expertise on cybersecurity incidents, investigations, and threat-hunting initiatives.
• Present findings, lessons learned, and threat intelligence to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Mentor and provide guidance to team members in threat hunting, digital forensics, incident response, and related disciplines.
• Participate in an on-call rotation and provide after-hours incident response support as required.

Skills

Threat hunting

Incident response

Digital forensics

Security engineering

Automation & scripting

Cloud security

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, and work-related experience

Tools

Wireshark

tcpdump

Windows/Linux internals

Job description

Habitat For Humanity Of Durham seeks a Senior Cyber Hunt & Respond Engineer to lead advanced threat hunting and incident response in a 24x7 Cyber Fusion Center. You will identify unknown threats, develop hypotheses, and coordinate containment, eradication, and recovery across enterprise environments.

You will perform digital forensics, analyze data sources, and collaborate with security, technology, and business teams to strengthen detection capabilities and security posture.