Senior Threat Hunter (Active TS/ SCI Required)
Sterling, Virginia, United States
Ampsight
Ampsight is seeking a highly skilled Senior Threat Hunter to join our Cybersecurity team. As a Senior Threat Hunter, you will play a critical role in protecting our clients' infrastructure and data by proactively hunting for and identifying potential threats and vulnerabilities. You will work closely with incident responders, security analysts, and other stakeholders to develop and implement threat hunting strategies and techniques.
Preferred Qualifications:
Demonstrated proficiency utilizing a variety of forensic and investigative tools such as:
- Network Analysis: Wireshark, tcpdump, SolarWinds, PRTG Network Monitor, etc.
- Vulnerability Assessments: Nessus, Qualys, Rapid7 InsightVM, and OpenVAS, etc.
- Endpoint Security (EDR): CrowdStrike Falcon, SentinelOne, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Carbon Black, etc.
- SIEM: Splunk, XSIAM, Elastic Stack, IBM QRadar, LogRhythm, etc.
Responsibilities:
- Proactively hunt for and identify potential threats and vulnerabilities within our clients' environments
- Perform in-depth analysis of security logs, network traffic, and other data sources to identify indicators of compromise and suspicious activities
- Create and maintain custom signatures, rules, and alerts to enhance detection and response capabilities
- Develop and implement threat hunting methodologies and techniques to effectively detect and mitigate advanced cyber threats
- Collaborate with incident responders, security analysts, and other stakeholders to investigate and respond to security incidents
- Stay up to date with the latest threat intelligence and security trends to continuously enhance threat hunting capabilities
- Provide guidance and mentorship to junior members of the team
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in cybersecurity or a related field
- Strong knowledge of network protocols, systems, and security technologies
- Experience with threat hunting tools and techniques
- Experience conducting incident response and investigations
- Knowledge of common cyber threats and attack vectors
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment
- Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or GIAC certifications are preferred
Benefits
- Stock options, our success is your success
- Discretionary performance-based bonus(es)
- 10 paid holidays and 1 floating holiday per year
- 20 days PTO per year
- 401k plan with 4% match (assuming 5% employee contribution)
- Health care, dental, and vision with company contribution
- Short and long-term disability
- Life insurance
- Hybrid work model
* Salary range is an estimate based on our InfoSec / Cybersecurity Salary Index 💰
Tags: Carbon Black CISM CISSP Computer Science CrowdStrike EDR Endpoint security GIAC Incident response LogRhythm Nessus OpenVAS QRadar Qualys SIEM Splunk Threat intelligence Vulnerabilities
Perks/benefits: 401(k) matching Equity Health care Insurance Salary bonus
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