Title: Cybersecurity Threat Analyst Subject Matter Expert IV

Location: Alexandria, VA

Clearance: TS/SCI with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph

Job Details:

Serve as the senior technical authority for proactive threat hunting and adversary-focused analysis within the SOC
Lead development of the SOC threat-hunting methodology, hunt lifecycle, prioritization model, documentation standards, quality criteria, and integration with watch operations and engineering
Proactively search across enterprise network, endpoint, identity, SIEM, and other security telemetry for indicators of compromise and behavioral evidence of malicious activity that has evaded automated detection
Develop and direct advanced hunt campaigns based on threat intelligence, adversary TTPs, mission priorities, predictive/advanced analytics, environmental changes, incidents, and identified detection gaps
Assess and validate analytical or predictive models and determine whether identified patterns represent meaningful adversary behavior, benign activity, or require additional collection and analysis
Lead complex analytical pivots across multiple sources and enclaves and direct expansion of scope when evidence indicates broader adversary activity
Ensure actionable hunt findings are transitioned to incident response, watch operations, detection engineering, or security engineering with clear evidence and recommended actions
Provide senior technical input to daily/weekly SOC reporting, leadership briefings, threat assessments, and defensive priorities
Establish reusable hunt playbooks, analytical techniques, ATT&CK mappings, queries, knowledge repositories, and lessons-learned processes
Mentor threat analysts at all levels and provide technical leadership for exercises, training, and proficiency development
Identify telemetry and detection blind spots and work with engineering teams to improve collection, analytics, enrichment, and automated detection coverage

Requirements:

Bachelor's degree from an accredited institute in a technical discipline applicable to the position; an additional 4 years of may be substituted in lieu of a degree

Minimum of eight (8) years of relevant experience in addition to education level
Expert-level hands-on experience in threat hunting, adversary analysis, advanced cyber defense analysis, or closely related work
Demonstrated experience leading complex hunt campaigns and identifying malicious activity not detected through routine alerting
Expert knowledge of adversary TTPs, MITRE ATT&CK, threat intelligence operationalization, network/endpoint/identity telemetry, and analytical methodologies
Experience establishing or materially improving a threat-hunting or proactive cyber-defense program
Experience translating hunt findings into detection engineering requirements and measurable defensive improvements
Must possess current DoD 8570 IAT II or IAM II certification
Experience working in a DoD or IC environment
Current active TS/SCI clearance, with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veteran/Disabled

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