Senior Cyber Hunt Analyst

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in District of Columbia.

📋 Description

• Offer strategic leadership and advanced technical oversight for threat hunting, cyber threat intelligence (CTI), and Security Operations Center (SOC) analysts.

• Spearhead proactive initiatives to detect sophisticated threats, reveal malicious activities, and enhance enterprise detection capabilities.

• Evaluate emerging cyber threats, adversary behaviors, attack patterns, and the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of threat actors.

• Create actionable intelligence, recognize possible compromises, and guide enterprise security monitoring along with defensive strategies.

• Lead and provide advice on threat modeling, adversary emulation, and Purple Team exercises.

• Assess defensive capabilities, simulate realistic attack scenarios, identify detection gaps, and suggest enhancements to enterprise security controls.

• Oversee the development, implementation, and ongoing refinement of threat detection frameworks, behavioral analytics, hunting methodologies, and detection rules across network, endpoint, cloud, and application environments.

• Foster inter-agency cybersecurity coordination, intelligence sharing, and collaborative threat analysis with federal partners and cybersecurity stakeholders.

• Utilize MITRE ATT&CK, CISA threat hunting guidance, and other established cybersecurity frameworks.

• Create threat intelligence assessments, technical reports, executive briefings, and actionable security recommendations.

• Mentor and provide technical guidance to threat hunters, CTI specialists, and SOC personnel.

⛳️ Requirements

• At least 12 years of progressively responsible experience in cybersecurity, cyber threat intelligence, advanced threat hunting, incident investigation, or related security fields.

• Proven experience in addressing sophisticated threats within complex enterprise environments.

• Extensive technical knowledge in proactive threat hunting, behavioral analytics, adversary TTPs, threat actor profiling, threat modeling, and advanced attack methodologies.

• Capacity to identify indicators of compromise (IOCs) and indicators of attack (IOAs) across enterprise systems.

• Experience in developing advanced threat detection strategies, analytical methodologies, and detection engineering capabilities.

• Practical knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK, CISA threat hunting guidance, and other pertinent threat intelligence and cybersecurity frameworks.

• Ability to provide technical guidance to threat hunting, CTI, and SOC teams.

• Skill in coordinating intelligence-driven security initiatives and collaborating with federal agencies, security partners, and enterprise stakeholders.

• Strong analytical, written communication, and presentation abilities.

• Experience producing comprehensive threat intelligence reports, executive-level assessments, threat hunting results, and actionable recommendations for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

🏝️ Benefits

• Recognized as one of the Best Places to Work in 2023 and 2025.

• Veteran-owned small business culture.

• People-first community and culture.