Senior Cyber Threat Hunter (5+ Years Exp Req)

Company Overview

Alyn Inc. partners with Fortune 50 companies and top government agencies to enhance their Cybersecurity Operations programs. Our mission is to align organizational structures with NextGen initiatives, ensuring efficiency and effectiveness in cybersecurity through expert guidance.

Summary:

Alȳn Inc. is seeking an experienced candidate to serve as a Senior Cyber Threat Hunter in Atlanta, GA. The successful candidate is well versed in many security technologies, understands the motivations and capabilities of advanced threat actors and can communicate risks and make recommendations associated with specific network threats. The ideal candidate has experience in the areas of intrusion techniques, attack vectors, methodologies and techniques, industry trends and standards and security technology solutions.

Senior Cyber Threat Hunter Responsibilities:

• Review and analyze security log data and network traffic/netflow data in order to detect traffic anomalies, identify infected and compromised systems and determine lateral movement of infections across the network.
• Monitor various security blogs, alerts, reporting, and open source notifications, RSS feeds and forums to keep abreast of the latest security news, attacks, threats, vulnerabilities and exploits.
• Create content feeds to detect malicious traffic based on known or detected indicators of compromise.
• Create and test custom EDR signatures that will positively identify known or detected attack traffic patterns.
• Create automated log correlations in Splunk, ELK, or a similar tool to identify anomalous and potentially malicious behavior.
• Act in concert with Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) teams to understand threats and to determine what risk these threats present to the client. Incorporate CTI findings into threat hunting activities and workflow.
• Contribute to the development of advanced threat actor profiles unique to clients and based upon analysis of acquired malware samples and forensic reporting.
• Review, create, or document standard operating procedures, recommendations, project specific documents and resource guides as needed.
• Mentor other analyst and client staff in cyber threat analytics

Senior Cyber Threat Hunter Education:

• BA/BS in relevant field or equivalent work experience
• CISSP, GSEC, GCIA or GNFA

Senior Cyber Threat Hunter Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of strong network security experience
• 3+ years using SIEM/EDR tools
• Understanding of a variety of security tools including firewall logs, intrusion detection systems, windows logs, event management, packet capture, packet sniffing technology
• Ability to create custom rules to detect known or detected malware traffic patterns to utilize in signature based security tools
• Packet-level knowledge of TCP/IP protocols and network applications and an understanding of TCP/IP routing behaviors
• Strong analytical skills
• Excellent writing and communication skills
• Network forensics

Senior Cyber Threat Hunter Desired Qualifications:

• Common scripting or programming language skills, including Perl, Python, Bash or Shell, PowerShell, or batch
• Basic Static and dynamic malware analysis
• Incident Response experience

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $120,000.00 - $145,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Referral program
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Experience:

• Splunk: 4 years (Required)
• Crowdstrike Falcon: 3 years (Required)
• Threat Hunting: 6 years (Required)

Location:

• United States (Required)

Security clearance:

• Secret (Preferred)

Work Location: Remote