Threat Hunting Engineer Lead

Mwiah; Carrollton, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Mwiah in Carrollton, TX seeks a Threat Hunting Engineer Lead to lead proactive threat hunts, improve detections, and guide security operations. You will apply adversarial tactics knowledge and collaborate with SOC teams to strengthen protections across networks and endpoints.

The role requires 7+ years in cybersecurity, experience in incident response and threat hunting, and proficiency with SIEM/EDR/SOAR. You will develop tooling, mentor engineers, and communicate findings to non-technical

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in cybersecurity related field.
• 7+ years in cybersecurity with 4+ in IR/forensics/threat hunting.
• Experience with SIEM/EDR/SOAR platforms.
• Strong understanding of network protocols and OS internals.
• Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK framework.
• Scripting or programming experience (Python/PowerShell/Go).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead proactive threat hunts and report findings.
• Research emerging threats and trend cyber incidents.
• Develop monitoring, detection, and analytics methodologies for SIEM/EDR/SOAR.
• Perform security gap analyses of platform technologies.
• Monitor and respond to security events across the enterprise.
• Correlate data sources to enhance detection capabilities.
• Collaborate with multiple teams on incident response and recovery.
• Provide security briefings on critical enterprise issues.

Skills

Threat hunting

Incident response

Forensics

Security analytics

Network security

Programming / Scripting (Python/Power 

Communication skills

Education

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 in incident response, forensics, threat hunting, or related role

Master’s degree in cyber security or related field

Tools

SIEM

EDR

SOAR

Job description

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 ThreatsBachelor’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.