Proactive Cyber Threat Hunter - Cloud, Identity & Endpoints

Sasso Consulting; Johannesburg; Hybrid; ZAR 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

Sasso Consulting seeks experienced Cyber Security Threat Hunters to proactively identify and analyse threats across enterprise environments. You will investigate advanced threats, develop hunting hypotheses, and improve detection capabilities.

The role emphasizes hands-on threat hunting across endpoints, networks, and cloud, with collaboration across SOC and IR teams. The position is a 3-year contract in a hybrid setting, located in Gauteng with market-related pay.

Qualifications

• Minimum requirement: diploma or degree in IT, CS, Cybersecurity or related field.
• Typically 3–5 years in cybersecurity operations or threat hunting.
• Strong hands-on threat-hunting and investigations experience.

Responsibilities

• Proactively hunt threats across networks, endpoints, servers and cloud.
• Investigate suspicious activity and indicators of compromise.
• Collaborate with SOC, IR and detection engineers to improve monitoring.

Skills

Threat hunting

SIEM/XDR

MITRE ATT&CK

Endpoint security

Cloud security

Education

Relevant IT/Cybersecurity degree

Tools

Microsoft Sentinel

Splunk

Elastic Security

QRadar

Job description

Sasso Consulting seeks experienced Cyber Security Threat Hunters to proactively identify and analyse threats across enterprise environments. You will investigate advanced threats, develop hunting hypotheses, and improve detection capabilities.

The role emphasizes hands-on threat hunting across endpoints, networks, and cloud, with collaboration across SOC and IR teams. The position is a 3-year contract in a hybrid setting, located in Gauteng with market-related pay.