Sr. Threat Hunter (Remote - Home Based Worker)

The world isn’t standing still, and neither is Allstate.  We’re moving quickly, looking across our businesses and brands and taking bold steps to better serve customers’ evolving needs.  That’s why now is an exciting time to join our team.  You’ll have opportunities to take risks, challenge the status quo and shape the future for the greater good.

You’ll do all this in an environment of excellence and the highest ethical standards – a place where values such as integrity, inclusive diversity and accountability are paramount.  We empower every employee to lead, drive change and give back where they work and live.  Our people are our greatest strength, and we work as one team in service of our customers and communities.

Everything we do at Allstate is driven by a shared purpose: to protect people from life’s uncertainties so they can realize their hopes and dreams.  For more than 89 years we’ve thrived by staying a step ahead of whatever’s coming next – to give customers peace of mind no matter what changes they face.  We acted with conviction to advocate for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws.  We help give survivors of domestic violence a voice through financial empowerment. We’ve been an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, digital photo claims and, more recently, device and identity protection.

We are the Good Hands. We don’t follow the trends. We set them.

Job Summary

The Allstate Information Security (AIS) organization is responsible for managing cyber security at Allstate.  This includes Governance/Risk/Compliance, Access Management, Network Security, and Threat Response Services.  The organization is responsible for ensuring confidentiality, integrity, and availability of Allstate systems.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Threat Hunter to perform intelligence-driven network and endpoint analysis of artifacts to identify non-alerted security incidents.  This impactful position will involve analysis of large amounts of data from multiple security tools, including various indicator feeds, SIEM, and several threat intelligence tools, etc.  The individual in this role will perform the functions of threat hunting and serve as a liaison for Threat Services for the Global Security Fusion Center (GSFC), and mentor other hunters.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and run custom analysis models on security event information to discover active threats
• Identify (hunting) security nuances and abnormalities in the environment
• Develop use cases and actionable content to identify security variants that are currently not alerted within the environment
• Lead projects and assignments
• Custom tool design to assist in analysis and investigations
• Perform as an Information Security Resource in three or more of the following areas:
  • Threat Intelligence
  • Incident Response
  • Log analysis (statistical modeling, correlation, pattern recognition, etc.)
  •  Microsoft platform (Server, workstation, applications)
  • Open Systems platforms (Linux, UNIX, VM Ware ESX)
  • Cloud (AWS, Azure)
  • Web Application
  • Networking (firewalls, IDS/IPS, packet capture)
  • Databases (Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, IMS)
  • SIEM
  • Reverse Engineering / Malware analysis
• Collaborate and support teammates and outside teams with regard to threat hunting techniques/issues
• Communication/rapport with other divisions and various peers
• Strong ability to identify needs & driving solutions, and providing guidance, in an autonomous manner

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor's and/or Master's Degree in IT Security, Engineering, Computers Science, or related field/experience
• 4+ years overall technical experience in either threat hunting, threat intelligence, incident response, security operations, or related information security field
• Deep understanding of common network and application stack protocols, including but not limited to TCP/IP, SMTP, DNS, TLS, XML, HTTP, etc.
• Advanced experience with security operations tools, including but not limited to:
  • SIEM (e.g., Splunk, Sentinel)
  • Network analysis (e.g., NetWitness, Palo Alto)
  • Signature development/management (e.g., Spunk rules, Snort rules, Yara rules)
  • EDR solutions (e.g., CrowdStrike, Tanium)    
  • Link/relationship analysis (e.g., Maltego, IBM i2 Analyst Notebook)
• Broad experience with various common security infrastructure tools (NIDS, HIPS, EDR, etc.
• Scripting experience related to system administration and security operations (Python, Bash, PowerShell, GO, Perl, C/C++)
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, a passion for research and puzzle-solving
• Strong communication (oral, written, presentation), i