Senior Cybersecurity Threat Hunter

We are looking for: A Senior Cybersecurity Threat Hunter to support mentorship and assessment of global security teams in basic to advanced cybersecurity skill areas. The ideal candidate has a strong technical background, is enthusiastic, is good at problem solving, has a strong desire to learn, prefers to be hands-on technically, and constantly strives for excellence.

The Senior Threat Hunter will be part of a team delivering instructional content to customers, training new users how to effectively leverage the SimSpace platform, and facilitating a variety of Blue Team exercises for SimSpace and our customers. When facilitating exercises, you will be responsible for teaching security concepts, demonstrating practical/hands-on use of open source and commercial security tools; referencing both well established and cutting edge techniques that Cybersecurity Incident Response Teams might use to effectively defend their networks from advanced cyber threats.

What will you be doing as a Senior Threat Hunter at SimSpace?

• Bring world class mentorship and development of advanced threat hunting tactics and strategy for our global clients and international organizations.
• Utilize years of Blue Teaming experience to establish parsing rules, dashboards, and tuning of numerous enterprise security tools in our cyber range platform to exceed client goals and objectives.
• Work with our range operations team to develop toolsets and scenarios within a cybersecurity range to model real-world threat defense scenarios.
• Utilize foresight and awareness of overall business priorities when dealing with competing requirements and needs from across the organization in order to build consensus and drive results.
• Takes initiative in day-to-day tasks, leads projects, and mentors other team members.
• Navigate and work effectively across a complex, geographically dispersed organization.
• Support assessment of customer security teams and customer events (travel estimated at up to 15% in the near future).

What are the qualifications to apply? To be successful as a Senior Threat Hunter on SimSpace’s Evaluation Team, you need to have:

• Experience generating unique cyber security research and developing successful proposals for conference training and engagements.
• Direct experience performing threat hunting in active corporate environments.
• 6+ years of experience in a technical role in the areas of Security Operations, Incident Response, Detection Engineering, Offensive Security/Red Team, or Cyber Threat Intelligence.
• Experience analyzing host, network, and application telemetry for indicators of attack across the stages of the cyber kill chain.
• Direct experience working with very large datasets and log analysis tools including but not limited to: Splunk, Elastic, Python, Pandas, SQL, Hadoop, Hue.
• Experience consuming and analyzing Cyber Threat Intelligence for actionable takeaways for current threat hunts.
• Ability to apply Cyber Threat Intelligence through enrichment, correlation, and attribution.
• Experience with setup and/or troubleshooting of security stacks.
• Familiarity with offensive security strategies and assessment methodology.
• Experience explaining threat hunt objectives to mixed technical and non-technical audiences and ability to communicate associated risk by distilling complex content into digestible information.
• Hands-on technical experience and ability to demonstrate hunting for indicators of compromise in numerous enterprise scale EDR and SIEM tools to include Splunk, Elastic, Crowdstrike, and many other major vendors.
• Previous experience performing digital forensics or indecent response on major security incidents.
• Demonstrated self-starter with a constant desire to help others improve and build the team.

We provide the following:

• Salary Range $130,000-$170,000
• Comprehensive benefits package that start on first day of hire
• 401k with immediate vesting
• Flexible Time Off. The time YOU need, when YOU need it
• Equity options at hire and potential for additional based on performance
• Generous employee referral bonus program
• Peloton Interactive Wellness Program