Threat Hunter - Advanced Cyber Threat Detection & Response

Bank of America; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Bank of America is seeking a Threat Hunter to work with Global Information Security (GIS) to translate critical security controls and architectural specifics into valuable hunt strategies and analytics. This role aims to identify malicious behavior with a low false positive rate while advising on policy adjustments and architectural transformations that impact the global Corporation.

You will collaborate with data science, threat research, and cyber defense teams to develop innovative hunt

Qualifications

• 5+ years in security operations, incident response, detection engineering, offensive security/red team, or cyber threat intelligence.
• Experience analyzing system, network, and application logs for attack techniques across the cyber kill chain.
• Experience with large data sets and log analysis tools (Splunk, Python, Pandas, SQL, Hadoop, Hue).
• Experience consuming and analyzing cyber threat intelligence for actionable takeaways.
• Ability to align across the organization to drive results.
• Ability to collaborate across a geographically dispersed organization.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and correlate large data sets to uncover novel threats and attack techniques.
• Collaborate with data science, threat research, and cyber defense control teams to develop analytical methods to detect advanced threats.
• Develop and document new threat hunt hypotheses to improve detection and reduce unidentified threats.

Skills

Security Operations

Incident Response

Detection Engineering

Offensive Security

Cyber Threat Intelligence

Log Analysis

Data Analysis

Threat Hunting

Stakeholder Management

Risk Analytics

Policy & Governance

Tools

Splunk

Python

Pandas

SQL

Hadoop

Hue

Job description

Bank of America is seeking a Threat Hunter to work with Global Information Security (GIS) to translate critical security controls and architectural specifics into valuable hunt strategies and analytics. This role aims to identify malicious behavior with a low false positive rate while advising on policy adjustments and architectural transformations that impact the global Corporation.

You will collaborate with data science, threat research, and cyber defense teams to develop innovative hunt