Senior Cyber Threat Researcher – Cyber Intelligence
| Company | Capital One |
|---|---|
| Location | Plano, TX, USA, McLean, VA, USA, Richmond, VA, USA |
| Salary | $144200 – $181000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | |
| Experience Level | Mid Level |
Requirements
- High School Diploma, GED or equivalent certification
- At least 3 years of experience working in cybersecurity or information technology performing incident response, threat hunting, threat intelligence, forensics, or offensive security
- At least 2 years of experience in conducting investigations into cyber-enabled fraud, cybercrime, or Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)
- At least 2 years of experience in programming or scripting in Python, SQL, PHP, or PowerShell
Responsibilities
- Creating mechanisms to combine multiple detection signals, which can automatically highlight cyber threats across fraud and advance threat space
- Maintaining expertise of the current cyber threat landscape and attack vectors
- Synthesize disparate sets of data from sources such as malware, cyber attack patterns, and closed and open-source intelligence to inform instrumentation and detections
- Building productive relationships with internal teams to contextualize and inform across Capital One’s business
- Communicating investigative outcomes and conclusions to a variety of audiences
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree
- 4+ years of experience with cyber threat intelligence frameworks (the Lockheed Martin Cyber Kill Chain, Diamond Model, MITRE ATT&CK, Defense, Engage)
- 4+ years experience working with data analytics tools, such as Databricks or Python data analysis libraries
- 2+ years of experience with public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP)