Senior Threat Hunter & Incident Analyst

Navy Federal Credit Union; Vienna (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Navy Federal Credit Union is seeking a Senior Threat Analyst to join the Cybersecurity Operations team in Vienna, VA. This role focuses on threat hunting, advanced analytics, and develop threat-hunting capabilities across Windows and non-Windows environments.

You will collaborate with the Focused Operations manager and other Information Security teams to validate controls and advance threat-hunt operations, while maturing threat-hunt standards and processes.

Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge of Windows and non-Windows OS concepts.
• Advanced ability to evaluate large data sets for anomalies.
• Experience in cybersecurity or IT security.

Responsibilities

• Maintain expert knowledge of TTPs, forensics, and incident response for Windows and non-Windows environments
• Identify and hunt unknown threat activity across Windows and non-Windows environments
• Lead development of test plans for adversary emulation in threat hunts
• Conduct threat hunts using advanced analytics and event reconstruction
• Analyze network and endpoint events to assess impact of security incidents
• Develop non-standard analytic queries for cyber defense tools

Skills

Threat hunting

Windows

Forensics

Event correlation

Splunk

ELK

Adversary emulation

Executive communication

Tools

ELK Stack

IDS/IPS

Job description

Navy Federal Credit Union is seeking a Senior Threat Analyst to join the Cybersecurity Operations team in Vienna, VA. This role focuses on threat hunting, advanced analytics, and develop threat-hunting capabilities across Windows and non-Windows environments.

You will collaborate with the Focused Operations manager and other Information Security teams to validate controls and advance threat-hunt operations, while maturing threat-hunt standards and processes.