Matlen Silver has a terrific fulltime salaried position available now for Sr. Threat Hunter / Incident Response Engineer. This position offers a generous salary, great benefits and bonus plan. Relocation assistance is available.
**Due to client requirements we can only consider US Citizen or Permanent Resident candidates.
The Cyber Hunt & Respond Senior Engineer is an advanced, after-hours role within the 24/7 Cyber Fusion Center. This role has 2 core functions, proactive Threat Hunting & reactive Incident Response coverage.
Hunting involves searching through large, diverse sets of internal and external data to discover previously undetected threats. This role is creative and owns the development of new hypotheses on how adversaries may be attacking the organization and will prove out the hypotheses based on our available data. Additionally, this role will work with internal groups to express the data needs to explore potential threats.
This candidate must have a strong knowledge of windows internals to effectively respond to and eradicate advanced attacks. This role must advocate for the organization’s threat hunting efforts. The ability to quickly identify nefarious artifacts versus benign activity will be a key skill for this position. Cyber & Respond Engineers will be asked to consult on a variety of problems (technical and non-technical) within the team and larger organization.
The Cyber Hunt & Respond Senior Engineer is responsible for conducting presentations and mentoring others interested or responsible for related data science, threat hunting, or incident response.
This role is office-centric (on-site) in Zebulon, NC with on-call responsibilities. 3rd Shift, Tuesday Night to Saturday Night (5 days, 8 hour shifts)
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, or related field of relevant education, certification, or related training.
- Five years of experience in Cybersecurity or related work
- Knowledge of one or more cloud platforms and cloud security
- Knowledge of general information technology (IT) and cybersecurity
- Knowledge of computer networking concepts and protocols, and network security methodologies.
- Knowledge of network traffic analysis and packet-level analysis using appropriate tools (e.g., Wireshark, tcpdump).
- Knowledge of operating systems, including Windows/Unix ports and services.
- Knowledge of modern identity and access management concepts
- Knowledge of phishing tactics and techniques
- Knowledge of advanced cyber threats and vulnerabilities.
- Knowledge of cyber-attack stages (e.g., reconnaissance, scanning, enumeration, gaining access, escalation of privileges, maintaining access, network exploitation, covering tracks).
- Knowledge of adversarial tactics, techniques, and procedures
- Knowledge of intrusion detection methodologies and techniques for detecting host and network-based intrusions.
- Knowledge of incident response and handling methodologies.
- Knowledge of countermeasures to address a variety of threats
- Knowledge around leveraging automation, ML, and/or AI
- Knowledge of advanced threat hunting techniques
- Knowledge of types of digital forensics data and how to recognize them.
- Knowledge of types and collection of persistent data.
- Knowledge of file system implementations (e.g., New Technology File System [NTFS], File Allocation Table [FAT], File Extension [EXT]).
- Knowledge of which system files (e.g., log files, registry files, configuration files) contain relevant information and where to find those system files.
- Knowledge of processes for seizing and preserving digital evidence.
Plusses:
- Experience working in cloud environments, namely Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS.
- Industry certifications in general technology (e.g. Network+, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, Microsoft Azure Fundamentals, etc.)
- Industry certifications in cyber security, such as: Security+, CySA+, GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH), GIAC Certified Forensic Examiner (GCFE), GIAC Cloud Forensics Responder (GCFR), GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst (GCFA), GIAC Network Forensic Analyst (GNFA), GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware Certification (GREM), etc.
- Experience in Cyber Breach Response, Security Operations Center (SOC), Network Operations Center (NOC), IT/Cyber Engineering, or Intelligence Community (IC)
