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Huntress

Senior Detection Engineering & Threat Hunting Analyst

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About this role

Huntress is hiring for a Senior Detection Engineering & Threat Hunting Analyst role. See the official posting for full details.

Requirements

  • 2+ years of experience in detection engineering, threat hunting, SOC, MDR, or incident response.
  • Intermediate knowledge of Windows internals.
  • Working knowledge of Linux, macOS, Microsoft 365, Azure, and Google Workspace.
  • Experience developing, testing, tuning, and documenting detections or analytics from threat intelligence, IOCs, hypotheses, or real-world investigations.
  • Ability to communicate findings through clear written reports.
  • Strong familiarity with detection languages such as Sigma, Suricata, Snort, or YARA, and query languages such as KQL, EQL, ES|QL, or Splunk SPL.
  • A sound understanding of adversary tradecraft, including techniques used for persistence, privilege escalation, defense impairment, lateral movement, discovery, and collection on a system.
  • A sound understanding of the roles different threat actors play and their associated goals, such as initial access brokers, ransomware affiliates, and state-sponsored entities.

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