Senior Security Analyst - Threat Detection (VAN or SEA)

Senior Security Analyst - Threat Hunter

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Threat Hunting & Security Operations Experience
• 8+ years of experience in Security Operations, with hands on experience in threat hunting, SOC analysis, or incident response
• Demonstrated experience conducting proactive threat hunts across endpoint, identity, network, cloud, and application telemetry
• Strong understanding of adversary behaviors, tactics, and techniques, and how they manifest in enterprise environments

Threat Intelligence & Hunting Integration
• Experience consuming and operationalizing actionable threat intelligence to drive hypothesis based threat hunts
• Ability to collaborate closely with Threat Intelligence, Incident Response, and SOC teams to ensure findings translate into detections, response actions, and defensive improvements
• Experience validating intelligence through data driven investigation rather than alert only workflows

Detection & Investigation Skills
• Strong analytical skills with experience investigating complex or low signal security events
• Familiarity with detection logic aligned to frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK
• Ability to identify gaps in existing detections and recommend improvements based on hunt outcomes

Security Tooling & Data Analysis
• Hands on experience querying and analyzing telemetry from security tools such as SIEM, EDR, and logging platforms.
• Experience and understanding of KQL, Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender, AWS, Azure
• Ability to work directly with large datasets and telemetry to uncover anomalous or malicious activity
• Experience contributing to or refining runbooks, playbooks, and investigation workflows

Operationalization & Reporting
• Experience documenting threat hunt hypotheses, methodologies, findings, and outcomes
• Ability to build and maintain metrics and reporting that communicate hunt value, trends, and risk to stakeholders
• Comfortable transitioning validated findings into detections, response actions, or strategic improvements


Communication & Collaboration
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical findings to both technical and non technical audiences
• Proven ability to collaborate across Security Operations functions and influence improvements without direct authority

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.