Threat Hunting Engineer Lead

AmerisourceBergen Corporation (Cencora); Carrollton (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Cencora is seeking a Threat Hunting Engineer Lead to guide proactive threat hunts and enhance detection, response, and security controls across the security operations center. You will drive investigations, tool optimizations, and cross-team coordination.

The role requires 7+ years in cybersecurity with at least 4 years in incident response, threat detection, or forensics, plus strong scripting skills and communication abilities. Excellent programmatic and leadership potential are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent work experience.
• 7+ years in cybersecurity with at least 4 years in incident response, forensics, threat hunting, or related role.
• Expertise with common threat detection and logging platforms (SIEM/EDR/SOAR).
• Strong understanding of networks, OS internals (Windows/Linux/macOS), cloud security and defensive tech.
• Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK framework.
• Hands-on scripting or programming for tooling/automation (e.g., Python, Go, PowerShell).
• Strong communication skills to convey findings to non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Conduct threat hunting to identify, classify, prioritize, and report cyber threats.
• Research emerging threats; correlate and trend cyber incident activity.
• Craft monitoring, detection, and analytics methodologies for SIEM/EDR/SOAR.
• Provide security gap analyses and effectiveness assessments of security platforms.
• Formulate monitoring and response methodologies for security events.
• Correlate data sources to enhance detection, monitoring and response capabilities.
• Collaborate across teams on response to incidents, investigations, and recovery.
• Analyze incidents to improve alerting schemas.
• Provide security briefings on critical enterprise issues.

Skills

Threat hunting

Incident response

Forensics

Security controls

Network protocols

Cloud security

Automation scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity/CS/IS

Master's degree preferred

Tools

SIEM

EDR

SOAR

Job description

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Job Details

The Threat Hunting Engineer Lead is a technical leader in the Cencora Security Operations Center who applies their knowledge of adversarial tactics and techniques and their experience with security controls, infrastructure, and networking to proactively investigate potential cyber threats. They will use their findings to improve detection, response, and security controls.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Conduct threat hunting to identify, classify, prioritize, and report on cyber threats following industry best practices.
• Conduct research on emerging security threats; Provide correlation and trending of cyber incident activity.
• Craft methodologies for monitoring , detection, and analytics for SIEM, EDR, SOAR, and other platforms.
• Provide security gap analysis and effectiveness assessments of security platform technologies.
• Formulates methodologies to monitor for as well as respond to security related events.
• Identification of and correlation with other data sources to enhance security event detection, monitoring and response capabilities.
• Collaborates across multiple teams on the response to information security incidents, investigation, countermeasures, and recovery.
• Analysis of security incidents for further enhancement of alerting schema.
• Provides security briefings to advise on critical issues that may affect the enterprise.

EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent work experience
• 7+ years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, with at least 4 years dedicated to incident response, forensics, threat hunting, threat detection, or related role.
• Expertise with common threat detection and logging platforms for SIEM, EDR, SOAR, etc.
• Strong understanding of network protocols, operating system internals (Windows, Linux, MacOS), cloud security, and defensive security technologies.
• Familiarity with intelligence frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK.
• Hands-on experience with at least one scripting or programming language for tooling and automation (e.g., Python, Go, Powershell).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical findings to a non-technical audience.

PREFERRED CERTIFICATIONS:

• GIAC GCFA - Certified Forensic Analyst
• GIAC GCFR - Cloud Forensics Responder
• GIAC GNFA - Network Forensic Analyst
• GIAC GCIA - Certified Intrusion Analyst
• GIAC GCDA - Certified Detection Analyst
• GIAC GDAT - Defending Advanced Threats

Bachelor's degree in cyber security, computer science, information technology, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience required.Master's degree in cyber security, computer science, information technology, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience preferred.6+ years of experience in cyber threat intelligence, cyber security, security operations, incident response, threat analysis, or a related field required.Certified in Cybersecurity (CC) or equivalent certification preferred.Certified Threat Intelligence Analyst (CTIA) or equivalent certification preferred.Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) or equivalent certification preferred.

What Cencora offers

We provide compensation, benefits, and resources that enable a highly inclusive culture and support our team members' ability to live with purpose every day. In addition to traditional offerings like medical, dental, and vision care, we also provide a comprehensive suite of benefits that focus on the physical, emotional, financial, and social aspects of wellness. This encompasses support for working families, which may include backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave. To encourage your personal growth, we also offer a variety of training programs, professional development resources, and opportunities to participate in mentorship programs, employee resource groups, volunteer activities, and much more. For details, visit cencora

Full time

Equal Employment Opportunity

Cencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law.

The company's continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.

Cencora is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the employment process which are consistent with legal requirements. If you wish to request an accommodation while seeking employment, please call or email . We will make accommodation determinations on a request‑by‑request basis. Messages and emails regarding anything other than accommodations requests will not be returned

Affiliated Companies

Affiliated Companies: AmerisourceBergen Services Corporation