Threat Hunter

Currently we have a mid-level opportunity in Cyber Security in the Utrecht region. If you can identify yourself with the tasks and qualifications for the following position, we would like to get in touch with you and present you to our customer if your profile is a fit.

Threat Hunter

A Threat Hunter is a highly driven professional with a broad variety of IT knowledge and experience in Cyber Security. Always up-to-date, having an investigative mindset with very strong analytical skills. The Treat Hunter helps the organization reduce the time a threat actor is present on its infrastructure before detection has taken place. The Threat Hunter helps with defining and implementing new detection capabilities in order to gain more insight in the tactics, techniques and procedures (TTP’s) a threat actor uses before real incidents occur.

The Threat Hunter thinks like an attacker and a defender at the same time, translates the attackers behavior and the techniques they use into hunting hypotheses. The Threat Hunter is able to select and use the right tools and techniques necessary for investigating these hypotheses. The Threat Hunter has experience with writing code such as Python, has a proactive approach instead of a reactive approach, a creative mindset and excellent analytical skills. The Treat Hunter loves to solve complex challenges in the area of incident response, forensics and malware analytics with the goal to identify any suspicious behavior that occurs.

Preferred qualifications are: Bachelor or Master, OSCP, GXPN, GCFA, GREM, GCFE or GCIA, more than 5 years working experience in IT and more than 3 years in a Cyber Security role preferable within the financial sector. Excellent verbal and written communication skills are mandatory.

The working environment consists of a team with more than 50 experts who are responsible for Security Monitoring, Incident Response, Vulnerability Management and Crypto Services. Knowledge, skills and experiences will be shared with this team. The team responsible for the Threat Hunting consists of 4 highly experienced professionals that are capable of performing analysis. You will be working closely together with the other teams and you will build up and maintain relations with a variety of stakeholders inside and outside of the organization.