Threat Hunting Analyst

Role Profile #

1. Role Overview #

• Job Title: Threat Hunting Analyst
• Department/Team: Security Operations Center (SOC)
• Reporting To: SOC Manager
• Grade/Band: Analyst Level

2. Purpose of the Role #

The Threat Hunting Analyst is responsible for proactively analyzing historical logs to identify patterns of compromise, emerging threats, evidence of breaches, and inconsistencies. The role aims to detect evolving or persistent threats and works to advise on appropriate containment and remediation actions. The Threat Hunting Analyst maintains a strong understanding of the threat landscape, provides support for new detection methods, and develops actionable intelligence to enhance the security posture of the organization. Perform intelligence analysis of cyber activities to attribute entities of interest; their tactics, techniques, procedures, motives, and capabilities; determine malicious behavior; and correlate multiple events and fuse information from multiple sources to determine patterns in malicious activity and associated malware.

3. Main Duties and Responsibilities #