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Cybersecurity Senior Advisor - Threat Hunting

Rosemead, CA 91770

Posted: 03/13/2024 Employment Type: Direct Hire Industry: IT Specialist Job Number: 20541 Pay Rate: $156,000 – $246,200

Job Description

Hybrid - In office 1 day a week - Wednesday
Great benefits

US Citizens only as this is for a company supporting US Critical Infrastructure
As a Senior Advisor, your primary responsibilities will include conducting continuous research on emerging threats and threat actor activity, actioning that intelligence through proactive and innovative threat hunts leveraging SIEM, EDR, and other technology while leading efforts to addressing major findings. You will apply your technical and analytical expertise and demonstrate your strong understanding of networks and network architectures to enable proactive and innovative ways to your cybersecurity threat hunting work.
  • Analyzing Tactics Techniques and Procedures used by cyber adversaries and proactively hunt for those across the IT and OT environment.
  • Leveraging expert understanding of IT and OT architecture to develop innovative approaches to threat hunts.
  • Advising on impactful threat hunts for the team to conduct. Leverage understanding of network architectures lead enumeration of attacks traversing external attack surfaces through network facing appliances while identifying and addressing logging gaps, architecture gaps, visibility gaps, misconfigurations, and control gaps.
  • Driving Hunt Program improvements through enhancing existing hunt processes and developing new capabilities.
  • Advising, developing, and leading remediation guidance for any concerning visibility or technical gaps identified through hunts across attack surface and internal networks.
  • Developing methods and procedures to tie in hunt processes with cross-cyber and cross-business capabilities.

The essentials
  • 10 years of experience in Cybersecurity.
  • 3 years in threat hunting, network/host-based intrusion analysis, or incident response.
  • 2 years in attack surface monitoring and leading hardening efforts.

The preferred 
  • Bachelor’s degree in specialized field or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
  • Expert knowledge in complex network architectures with an ability to enumerate attacks traversing external attack surfaces, through network facing appliances.
  • Expert experience in identifying logging gaps, architecture gaps, visibility gaps, misconfigurations, and control gaps.
  • Experience supporting cyber defense analysis of Operational Technology (OT) Networks to include Integrated Controls Systems (ICS), SCADA, and Process Control Networks (PCN).
  • Experience working in Security Operations Centers.
  • Experience working with Incident Response and Cyber Threat Intelligence functions.
  • Security, CISSP, GCIA, GCIH, GMON, GICSP, GRID, etc.

You should know 
  • This position’s work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days. Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to reside in the state of California. Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage.
  • US Citizenship required as part of Critical Infrastructure security protocols.
  • Relocation may apply to this position.

Job Requirements

cyber security

Meet Your Recruiter

Sean Goulding
Vice President – Technical Recruiting, Skilled Labor, Accounting And Finance

Sean has over 8 years’ experience with Mattson Resources and over 20 years in executive search, technical recruiting, and staffing. With a Bachelor’s in Business Administration and a concentration in Human Resources as well as 16 years agency experience and 4 years corporate in staffing – Sean and his team can assist in all areas of search for your hiring needs. In agency search, Sean has led teams and recruiting services for Engineering, Sciences, IT, Skilled Labor, Operations, Supply Chain, Operational Excellence and more for Medical Device, Pharma, Aerospace, Automotive, Distribution, Transportation, IT Services, Software, Food & Beverage, Retail, and Consumer Products. In 2021 Sean oversaw Mattson Resources expansion and opening of a satellite office in Corona, CA.

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