Cyber Threat Researcher

UltraViolet Cyber is a leading platform-enabled unified security operations company seeking a Cyber Threat Researcher to join their Threat Intelligence & Detection Engineering team. The ideal candidate will have deep technical expertise, advanced analytic skillsets, and knowledge of adversarial tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to help stop threat actors from compromising customers.

Requirements

• Proactively create detection rules to alert SOC analysts of intrusions against customer networks.
• Assist with tuning and enhancing existing detection rules to better defend against evolving threats.
• Support hypotheses-driven threat hunting efforts using security data and intelligence.
• Support threat intelligence objectives by contributing to offensive and defensive threat intelligence reports.
• Research and track adversary TTPs and leverage frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK.
• Provide technical mentorship to junior threat hunters and SOC analysts.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of detection engineering and hunting methodologies.
• Regularly engage with internal account teams and customers to help strengthen their security posture, identify weaknesses, report on findings, and report on detection strategies.
• Provide technical insight to internal account teams and customers as needed.
• Collaborate with Incident Response and SOC teams to investigate and contain security incidents.

Benefits

• 401(k) with 100% employer match of the first 3% contributed and 50% of the next 2% contributed
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Group Term Life, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability
• Voluntary Life, Hospital Indemnity, Accident, and/or Critical Illness
• Participation in the Discretionary Time Off (DTO) Program
• 11 Paid Holidays Annually