Manager, Cyber Threat Researcher, Cyber Intelligence (Remote Eligible)
Capital OneAbout the role
The mission of Capital One’s Cyber Intelligence service is to leverage cyber threat intelligence for good. The team’s mission is to counter, disrupt and mitigate cyber adversaries targeting Capital One customers, associates, infrastructure and brand. We are looking for a Cyber Threat Researcher who is able to apply systems thinking and engineering techniques to accurately emulate, detect, and predict cyber threats and adversary intentions.
You have a growth mindset when it comes to maintaining expertise and knowledge in threat adversary trends and technologies. We are looking for someone who takes a forward leaning, innovative approach to problem solving, with passion for solving problems at Capital One scale and the desire to collaborate across functional teams. The ideal candidate should be comfortable showing off a constant technical curiosity, “getting into the weeds” on emerging technologies and how they can be used by actors and fraudsters with ill intent.
Responsibilities:
Create mechanisms to "connect the dots" between different spaces in order to combine signals in data that automatically highlight cyber threats across fraud and advanced enterprise threat activities
Maintain industry-wide expertise of the current cyber threat landscape and attack vectors
Synthesize disparate sets of data from sources such as malware, cyber attack patterns, closed and open-source intelligence to inform instrumentation, detections, and threat narratives such as storyboards
Build productive relationships with internal teams to contextualize, influence and inform Capital One’s business units on emerging threats
Communicate investigative outcomes with technical architecture context and conclusions to a variety of audiences, including company senior leadership and business partners
Capital One is open to hiring a Remote Employee for this opportunity.
Basic Qualifications:
High School Diploma, GED or equivalent certification
At least 4 years of experience working in cybersecurity or information technology
At least 4 years of experience performing incident response, threat hunting, threat intelligence, forensics, or offensive security
At least 3 years of experience in conducting investigations into cyber-enabled fraud, cybercrime, or advanced persistent threats
At least 2 years of experience in programming or scripting (Python, Perl, PHP, PowerShell)
Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree
6 + years of experience working in cybersecurity or information technology
6 + years of experience performing incident response, threat hunting, threat intelligence, forensics, or offensive security
3+ years of experience with public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP)
3+ years of experience in a highly regulated industry (financial sector, financial technology, healthcare, or intelligence community)
1+ year of experience working with Generative and Agentic AI tools
At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization, or offer any immigration related support for this position (i.e. H1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN, or another type of work authorization).
The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.
Remote (Regardless of Location): $179,400 - $204,700 for Manager, Cyber Technical
Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated w
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