Cyber Threat Intelligence Hunter (Unit 42)

Our Mission

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• Analyze public and private threat intelligence, Unit 42 research, adversary campaigns, malware activity, infrastructure, indicators, and TTPs.
• Translate threat intelligence into actionable hunting hypotheses, investigation workflows, hunting queries, and customer-facing findings.
• Execute existing threat hunting reports and hunting workflows, investigate results, and support timely customer reporting.
• Investigate scheduled hunt detections and compose clear, professional reports when relevant.
• Investigate hunting leads based on IOCs, threat intelligence, internal detections, customer telemetry, and emerging adversary behaviors.
• Monitor the threat landscape and prepare initial context for emerging campaigns, enabling the global team to continue deeper investigation and hunting.
• Collaborate with threat hunters, detection engineers, incident responders, MDR, and Unit 42 researchers to operationalize intelligence quickly and effectively.
• Escalate major, unclear, or high-impact security events to the Threat Hunting leadership team when necessary.
• Provide ongoing feedback on findings, hunting reports, queries, intelligence workflows, and operational processes to support continuous improvement.

• 4+ years of experience in tactical threat hunting, cyber threat intelligence (CTI), DFIR, or advanced security operations.
• Strong background in tactical threat intelligence, specifically identifying the discrete traces, artifacts, and behavioral fingerprints left by adversaries across diverse telemetry sources (endpoint, network, cloud, and identity).
• Experience capturing and modelling incident data to map out intrusions and understand attacker behaviours.
• Proven ability to develop & deliver verbal & written technical findings of attacker behaviour into clear, high-impact notifications for customers.
• Experience translating threat intelligence into high-fidelity hunting hypotheses, detection logic, and log-based queries.

• Experience in an Incident Response or Managed Services environment
• Proficiency in Python and SQL
• Familiarity with malware analysis
• Published security blogs or research that shows a deep understanding of a particular threat