Lead Threat Hunter

 

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Job Description

U.S. Bank is looking for an experienced Lead Threat Hunter to join our existing security incident response program and help us ensure the security of the enterprise by finding and responding to advanced threats in our environment.  The Lead Threat Hunter serves as an advisor and/or senior member leader across domain security initiatives to identify vulnerabilities in systems, controls, and standards gaps. This includes leading efforts, designing, implementing and executing processes and controls for security functional areas. Defines strategic objectives and supporting goals to enhance the security of systems, networks, and technical platforms and drives progress of team objectives and achievements.

About You:

• You have been a technical incident responder/threat hunter for several years and have the skills to operate across common networks, operating systems and multi-cloud environments.  

• You have a track record of developing strong collaborations across teams to help you meet your goals.

• You have a thirst for knowledge and continually seek out new things to learn.

• You communicate your hunting findings effectively. You organize and share your knowledge to help colleagues and partners learn.

• You default to hunting once and automate things to make hunting time more effective.

• If it’s not mapped to MITRE ATT&CK yet, you are going figure out a way to map it!   

• You realize that everyone makes mistakes and seek out feedback to help you learn and adjust your focus.

• You are well-versed in AI topics and thinking AI-first.

• You are a PROACTIVE hunter of all things security.

About Us:

• We recognize that a diverse team is more effective and always strives to be inclusive of different cultures, backgrounds and experience.

• We are clear in our mission and objectives and hold ourselves accountable to them.

• We believe in hunting once. When we can’t, we automate and/or create playbooks.

• We build strong partnerships and work towards common goals.

• We share knowledge and seek to level up our partner teams.

• We talk about MITRE ATT&CK and Threat Informed Defense (a lot!) and how to best use them to focus on hunting.

Basic qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
  8+ years of relevant experience

Responsibilities will include:

• Collaborating with security engineering teams to create and test detection rules.

• Investigating potential cybersecurity incidents.

• Developing response processes and training security operations staff.

• Reviewing and tracking detected events to identify new exploits, threats and mitigation strategies, and enforce incident reporting standards.

• Leading in-depth technical analysis of new and emerging information security threats.

• Analyzing threats and vulnerabilities to determine their impact to the bank's operations

• Assisting with investigations and eDiscovery efforts involving court-proven forensic processes and technologies.

Required skills/experience:

• Expertise in AI automation tooling.

• Hunting with Jupyter notebooks, Python, automation and APIs.

• Expertise hunting with security logging, monitoring, and event management tools.

• Expertise in log analysis, packet analysis.

• Knowledge of threat hunting frameworks.

• Experience with incident response or threat hunting in major cloud environments such as AWS, Azure and GCP.

• Demonstrable proficiency in threat intelligence platforms, security automation and orchestration and red/blue/purple team activities.

• Excellent communication and reporting skills.

• 8 or more years’ experience in information security.

• 4 or more years’ experience with incident response/incident handling.

• 2 or more years’ experience as a threat hunter.

• Thorough understanding of the applicable information security systems, policies, and procedures.

• Effective communication, presentation skills, leadership, problem-solving and analytical skills.

• Proven collaboration and influencing skills.

Preferred skills/experience:

• Malware reverse engineering skills.

• Expertise with incident response frameworks.

• Experience in the financial sector.

• SANS, CHFI, OSCP or similar certification.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits: 

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members’ whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

• Basic term and optional term life insurance

• Short-term and long-term disability

• Pregnancy disability and parental leave

• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan

• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)

• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities

• Adoption assistance

• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

Review our full benefits available by employment status here.

U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law.

E-Verify

U.S. Bank participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program in all facilities located in the United States and certain U.S. territories. The E-Verify program is an Internet-based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Learn more about the E-Verify program.

The salary range reflects figures based on the primary location, which is listed first. The actual range for the role may differ based on the location of the role. In addition to salary, U.S. Bank offers a comprehensive benefits package, including incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase 401(k) contribution and pension (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Pay Range: $126,820.00 - $149,200.00

U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment. U.S. Bank conducts background checks consistent with applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act as well as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. U.S. Bank is subject to, and conducts background checks consistent with the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA). In addition, certain positions may also be subject to the requirements of FINRA, NMLS registration, Reg Z, Reg G, OFAC, the NFA, the FCPA, the Bank Secrecy Act, the SAFE Act, and/or federal guidelines applicable to an agreement, such as those related to ethics, safety, or operational procedures.

Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies.

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.