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Regular or Temporary:

Regular

Language Fluency:  English (Required)

Work Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Please review the following job description:

The Cyber Hunt & Respond Principal Engineer (Principal Hunter) is an advanced role within the 24/7 Cyber Fusion Center. This role has 2 core functions, proactive Threat Hunting & reactive Incident Response coverage.

Hunting involves searching through large, diverse sets of internal and external data to discover previously undetected threats. This role is creative and owns the development of new hypotheses on how adversaries may be attacking the organization and will prove the hypotheses based on our available data. Additionally, this role will work with internal groups to express the data needs to explore potential threats.

Principal Hunters demonstrate deep expertise across advanced querying languages, assembly-level analysis, Python, regular expressions, debugging and reverse engineering tools, anti-analysis and evasion techniques, security automation, and artificial intelligence (AI). They are responsible for designing, building, and operationalizing net new threat hunting capabilities that materially improve the organization’s ability to detect and respond to advanced adversaries (e.g. nation-state threats).

In addition to hands on technical leadership, Principal Hunters serve as mentors and technical authorities for analysts, hunters, and incident responders. They provide guidance, coaching, and technical review to elevate the overall skill level, analytical rigor, and hunting maturity of the Cyber Fusion Center.
This role participates in an on-call rotation and requires availability outside standard business hours, as necessitated by cyber incidents and imminent threat activity.

***For this opportunity, Truist will not sponsor an applicant for work visa status or employment authorization, nor will we offer any immigration-related support for this position (including, but not limited to H-1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN-1 or TN-2, E-3, O-1, or future sponsorship for U.S. lawful permanent residence status.)***

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• As Digital Forensics & Incident Response (DFIR) professionals, individuals in this role must be well-versed in log, packet, network, endpoint, root cause analysis, containment, and eradication.

• A programming, computer science, or data science background will be important to success in this role as unstructured data will need automated decisions made and other data reduction techniques applied. Depending on the candidate, the role will likely start with basic searches and visualizations but may lead to pioneering use of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence techniques and tools. Familiarity with programming and malicious code critical to success in this role.

• This candidate must have a strong knowledge of windows internals to effectively respond to and eradicate advanced attacks.  This role must advocate for the organization’s threat hunting efforts.  The ability to quickly identify nefarious artifacts versus benign activity will be a key skill for this position. Cyber & Respond Engineers will be asked to consult on a variety of problems (technical and non-technical) within the team and larger organization.

• The Cyber Hunt & Respond Senior Engineer is responsible for conducting presentations and mentoring others interested or responsible for related data science, threat hunting, or incident response.

• Develop/invent highly innovative solutions within multiple information security technologies, theories and/or techniques that impact CIS strategy

• Develop security design