Threat Hunter Investigator - 177302 - 177697

Piper Companies; North Carolina; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

PTO

Paid holidays

Job summary

Piper Companies seeks a Threat Hunter Investigator for a fully remote role with EST hours in the United States. You will proactively hunt insider threats, investigate incidents, and mitigate risks to protect critical IP and data across environments.

Responsibilities include developing detections in Splunk Enterprise Security, building RBA/UEBA workflows, and documenting runbooks. A strong cyber investigations background and MITRE ATT&CK alignment are essential for success.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of cyber investigations, insider threat analysis, and digital forensics.
• Hands-on Splunk Enterprise Security experience and detection engineering.
• Advanced SPL skills and custom detections and correlation searches.
• Experience with RBA and UEBA including risk scoring and anomaly detection.
• Strong threat hunting methodologies and translating intelligence into detections.

Responsibilities

• Conduct proactive threat hunting and insider threat investigations using logs, endpoints, user activity, and analytics.
• Investigate IP theft, data loss, and insider risk events; document findings and recommendations.
• Develop and tune detections within Splunk ES (SPL) and build detection content.
• Create and maintain Risk-Based Alerting (RBA) use cases and automated response workflows.
• Configure UEBA models across endpoint, cloud, network, and applications; improve alert quality.

Skills

Threat hunting

Insider threat

Incident response

Behavioral analytics

Threat intelligence

SPL queries

Detection engineering

UEBA

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, CS, IS or related field

Tools

Splunk Enterprise Security

Job description

Piper Companies is seeking a Threat Hunter Investigator to join a leading technology organization based in Raleigh, NC. This individual will be responsible for proactively identifying, investigating, and mitigating insider threats, whether malicious, negligent, or the result of a compromised account. The role will support investigations involving the protection of critical intellectual property and sensitive company data. This is a fully remote opportunity working EST hours.

Responsibilities of the Threat Hunter Investigator:

• Conduct proactive threat hunting and insider threat investigations leveraging logs, endpoint data, user activity, and behavioral analytics.
• Investigate potential intellectual property theft, data loss, and other insider risk events, documenting findings and recommendations.
• Develop and tune advanced threat detections within Splunk Enterprise Security using SPL.
• Build and maintain Risk-Based Alerting (RBA) use cases, correlation searches, and automated response workflows.
• Configure and optimize UEBA models and behavioral detections across endpoint, cloud, network, and application environments.
• Create technical documentation, runbooks, and detection content while continuously improving alert quality and coverage aligned to MITRE ATT&CK.

Qualifications of the Threat Hunter Investigator:

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience conducting cyber investigations, insider threat analysis, and digital forensic investigations.
• Strong hands-on experience with Splunk Enterprise Security, including detection engineering and threat hunting.
• Advanced experience writing SPL queries and developing custom detections and correlation searches.
• Experience with RBA and UEBA, including risk scoring, anomaly detection, and behavioral analytics.
• Strong understanding of threat hunting methodologies and translating threat intelligence into actionable detections.

Compensation & Benefits:

• Base salary ranging from $140,000 - $165,000
• Comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), PTO, paid holidays, and additional leave offerings where applicable

Keywords: Threat Hunting, Insider Threat, Incident Response, Splunk Enterprise Security, SPL, Detection Engineering, UEBA, RBA, Digital Forensics, Cybersecurity

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