Full-Time Senior Threat Hunter
Sophos is hiring a remote Full-Time Senior Threat Hunter. The career level for this job opening is Experienced and is accepting Canada based applicants remotely. Read complete job description before applying.
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About Sophos: Sophos is a global leader in cybersecurity. They offer MDR, incident response, and a variety of security technologies.
Role Summary: As a Threat Hunter, you'll proactively hunt threats for Sophos MDR clients, focusing on endpoint activities on Windows, Linux, and MacOS.
Key Responsibilities:
- Plan and execute threat hunts across MDR customers.
- Document threat hunt tickets.
- Understand existing detections and ensure hunts address gaps.
- Provide feedback to detection teams.
- Stay updated on threat intelligence and incorporate it into hunts.
- Support ad-hoc and long-term projects to improve threat hunting.
- Support junior analysts.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience as a Threat Hunter, Incident Response Analyst, or Detection Analyst.
- Experience analyzing operating system and application logs.
- Experience with developing complex search queries (SQL, RegEx).
- Knowledge of statistical techniques for anomaly detection.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Experience providing briefings to technical and executive audiences.
- Experience creating preventative/alerting rules.
- Cybersecurity certifications (preferred).
- BA/BS degree (preferred).
Compensation: $121,000 - $201,000 (USD) base salary. Benefits also offered.