Role: Threat Hunter (Proactive Detection Specialist)
Industry Type: IT Services & Consulting
Department: IT & Information Security
Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent
Role Category: IT Infrastructure Services
UG: Any Graduate
PG: Any Postgraduate
We are seeking an experienced Threat Hunter to proactively identify, investigate, and mitigate advanced cyber threats across enterprise environments. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in threat hunting methodologies, adversary tactics and techniques, threat intelligence analysis, and security analytics. This role will focus on uncovering hidden threats, identifying detection gaps, and enhancing the organizations threat detection capabilities across SIEM, UEBA, NDR, EDR, and Deception platforms.
Key Responsibilities
Conduct proactive threat hunting activities using hypothesis-driven, IOC-driven, and anomaly-driven methodologies.
Leverage MITRE ATTCK framework to identify adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and improve detection coverage.
Analyze security telemetry across SIEM, UEBA, NDR, EDR, network, endpoint, cloud, and deception platforms to identify hidden threats and malicious activities.
Develop advanced threat hunting queries, behavioral analytics models, detection logic, and anomaly detection use cases.
Identify gaps in existing security monitoring and detection capabilities and recommend improvements.
Collaborate with SOC, Incident Response, and Threat Intelligence teams to investigate emerging threats and suspicious activities.
Develop threat intelligence reports, threat actor profiles, attack trend analysis, and strategic recommendations.
Support detection engineering initiatives by creating and optimizing correlation rules, analytics models, and hunting content.
Participate in purple-team exercises, adversary emulation activities, and threat simulations.
Required Qualifications
Minimum 6 years of cybersecurity experience with at least 3 years focused on threat hunting.
Strong expertise in MITRE ATTCK framework and threat hunting methodologies.
Experience with SIEM, UEBA, NDR, EDR, Threat Intelligence Platforms, and Deception technologies.
Strong understanding of advanced attack techniques, APT groups, malware behavior, and threat actor profiling.
Experience in developing detection content and advanced hunting queries.
Mandatory: At least two active certifications from GCTI, GCFA, GCIH, GNFA, OSCP, OSTH, CREST CPSA/CRT, or equivalent. SANS GIAC threat hunting or forensics certifications strongly preferred.
Preferred Skills
Threat Hunting
Threat Intelligence
Detection Engineering
MITRE ATTCK
SIEM / UEBA / NDR
Threat Analytics
Purple Teaming
Adversary Simulation
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