Principal Threat Analyst

This position will be fully remote and can be hired anywhere in the continental U.S. 

The Principal Analyst will provide deep level analysis for client investigations utilizing customer provided data sources, audit, and monitoring tools at both the government and enterprise level. The Principal Analyst will work closely with our Technology Engineers, Architects, and Threat Analysts to service customers.  

How You'll Make an Impact 
 

• Operate independently in a geographically dispersed team, while maintaining situational awareness and keeping the team up to date   

• Perform security monitoring and incident response activities across the networks, leveraging a variety of tools and techniques   

•  Detect incidents through proactive “hunting” across security-relevant data sets   

• Thoroughly document incident response analysis activities   

• Review investigations conducted by more junior analysts to ensure quality standards are met   

• Develop new, repeatable methods for finding malicious activity across the networks   

• Provide recommendations to enhance detection and protection capabilities   

• Regularly present technical topics to technical and non-technical audiences   

• Develop and follow detailed operational processes and procedures to appropriately analyze, escalate, and assist in the remediation of information security incidents   

• Prioritize multiple high-priority tasks and formulate responses/recommendations to customers and team members in a fast-paced environment   

• Provide assistance to other security teams   

• Continually develop new technical skills and push overall team capabilities forward   

• Engage with and mentor other team members   

• Work with other teams on major engineering and architecture initiatives    

• Be innovative with their understanding of attack methodologies, malware analysis, malicious toolkits, and how those may manifest within various security technologies   

• Advanced proactive threat hunting    

• Understands advanced adversary emulation concepts    

• Advanced use case design for insider threat, operational, threat detection and response    

• Review of defensive and detective controls to reduce client attack surface   

What we're hiring for 

• 6+ years operational experience assessing, reviewing, and remediating infrastructure vulnerabilities, CVE’s, and risks.   

• Knowledge of third-party software vulnerabilities, security threat landscape, especially network and server threats   

• Knowledge of cyber security threats and risks, vendor computing environments, basic systems, and network technologies.  

• Experience with and understanding of CVE’s and CVSS scores   

• Knowledge of compensating controls and mitigating factors.   

•  Knowledge of Information Security frameworks, guidelines, and standard methodologies.