Overview
Cyber Threat Hunter Jobs in Temple Terrace, FL at Verizon
Title: Cyber Threat Hunter
Company: Verizon
Location: Temple Terrace, FL
When you join Verizon
You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the V Team Life.
What You’ll Be Doing…The Threat Management Center (TMC) serves as the initial point of defense for Verizon’s networks and information systems, safeguarding them against internal misconduct and cyber-attacks. The TMC Advanced Cyber Defense (TMC-ACD) team is tasked with responding to, investigating, hunting and managing all incidents. Collectively, the teams strive to protect Verizon’s brand reputation and revenue streams through proactive identification, response, and mitigation of potential threats that could adversely affect Verizon or its business partners.
Responsibilities Include
Performing day-to-day operations as a trusted advisor on advanced threat hunt for team
Leading “hunt missions” using threat intelligence, data from multiple sources and results of brainstorming sessions to discover evidence of threats, insider misconduct, or anomalous behavior
Utilizing advanced threat hunting techniques and tools to detect, analyze, and respond to anomalous activities. This includes Identifying threat actor groups and characterizing suspicious behaviors as well as being able to identify traits, C2, and develop network and host-based IOCs or IOAs.
Finding evidence of threats or suspicious behavior, and leveraging data to improve controls and processes; this will require a blend of investigative, analytical, security, and technical skills to be successful.
Evaluating and making recommendations on security tools and technologies needed to analyze potential threats to determine impact, scope, and recovery.
Ensuring gaps in detections are socialized with Cyber Security stakeholders; this includes identifying dependencies, recommendations, and collaborating to mitigate threats.
Reviewing outcomes of incident lessons learned, root cause analysis, and on-demand compliance audits to ensure repeatable and sustainable processes are established, followed or adjusted when necessary.
Acting as subject matter expert in internal and external audit reviews. This includes producing and presenting artifacts and executive summaries to support the overall mission of the TMC.
Participating in Purple Team, Threat Hunt, and tabletop exercises.
Working closely with key cross-functional stakeholders to develop and utilize proactive and mitigating measures to prevent, detect and respond to potential threats to Verizon on prem and cloud environments.
Presenting executive-level operational read-outs, metrics, and case reviews that accurately capture the effectiveness of the threat hunt team. This includes leveraging internal data, threat trends, and operational metrics to clearly communicate the Verizon landscape to senior executives, to include the Chief Information Security Officer.
Developing and executing long-term and short-term strategic goals and ensuring proper updates are socialized to approp…
