Senior Security Analyst
Job Description
Overview
We are seeking a Senior Security Analyst – Threat Hunter to play a critical role in proactively identifying, investigating, and disrupting advanced threats across the enterprise. This individual will lead hypothesis‑driven threat hunting efforts, leverage threat intelligence to uncover low‑signal adversary activity, and partner closely with Security Operations, Incident Response, and Threat Intelligence teams to strengthen detection and response capabilities. The ideal candidate brings deep hands‑on experience, strong analytical instincts, and the ability to translate complex findings into actionable security improvements.
Required Skills and Experience
Threat Hunting & Security Operations
- 8+ years of experience in Security Operations, with hands‑on experience in threat hunting, SOC analysis, or incident response
- Proven 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
- 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 hunt findings translate into detections, response actions, and defensive improvements
- Experience validating intelligence through data‑driven investigations rather than alert‑only workflows
- Strong analytical skills with experience investigating complex or low‑signal security events
- Familiarity with detection engineering 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 with KQL and platforms including Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender, AWS, and Azure
- Ability to work directly with large datasets to uncover anomalous or malicious activity
- Experience contributing to or refining runbooks, playbooks, and investigation workflows
- 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 security improvements
- 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
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