Senior Threat Hunter & Incident Response Lead

Florida International University; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 80,000 - 86,000; Full time

Job summary

Florida International University in Miami, FL is seeking a Senior Technical Security Analyst to identify, investigate, and respond to threats across cloud, network, and endpoint environments. You will lead threat hunts and develop detections for SIEM and EDR/XDR platforms.

Collaborate with IT teams to strengthen security controls, tune detections, and coordinate containment, eradication, and recovery. The role requires mentoring staff and delivering metrics on threat activity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field with five years of experience.
• Experience with security monitoring, threat hunting, detection engineering, digital forensics, and incident response.
• Experience securing cloud, network, identity, and endpoint environments using SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, and cloud security tools.
• Proficiency with scripting or query languages for security analysis and automation.
• Knowledge of adversary behavior, incident response practices, and cloud shared-responsibility models.
• Relevant professional certification in cloud security, incident response, digital forensics, network security, or information security.
• Understanding of HIPAA and FERPA regulations.

Responsibilities

• Lead hypothesis-driven threat hunts across cloud, network, identity, and endpoint telemetry.
• Develop, test, document, and tune detection logic and alerts within SIEM, XDR/EDR, and cloud security platforms.
• Map adversary behaviors to threat frameworks and prioritize tactics using threat intelligence.
• Measure detection coverage and reduce false positives; identify gaps and improvement opportunities.
• Monitor security events, validate incidents, and prioritize response by risk and business context.
• Lead or support incident response, including containment, eradication, and post-incident review.
• Perform endpoint, network, cloud, identity, and malware analysis to identify attack vectors.
• Create and maintain response playbooks, procedures, and escalation criteria; communicate findings to audiences.

Skills

Threat hunting

SIEM

EDR/XDR

Cloud security

Incident response

Scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related field

Tools

SOAR

EDR/XDR tools

Cloud security tools

Job description

Florida International University in Miami, FL is seeking a Senior Technical Security Analyst to identify, investigate, and respond to threats across cloud, network, and endpoint environments. You will lead threat hunts and develop detections for SIEM and EDR/XDR platforms.

Collaborate with IT teams to strengthen security controls, tune detections, and coordinate containment, eradication, and recovery. The role requires mentoring staff and delivering metrics on threat activity.