USI-FY26-Cyber-CyberOperate-Detect & Respond-SSA-Threat Hunt

Summary Position Summary Cyber Deloitte Cyber understands the unique challenges and opportunities businesses face in cybersecurity. Join our team to deliver powerful insights to help our clients navigate the ever-changing threat landscape. Through powerful insights and managed services that simplify complexity, we enable businesses to operate with resilience, grow with confidence, and proactively manage to secure achievements.

Position Summary Level: Senior Solution Delivery Lead

As a Threat Hunter, you will support the Security Operations Center (SOC) by researching relevant threat actors, attack vectors, and behaviors pertinent to client industries and to each client’s network environment in particular.

Work you’ll do:

• Research trending campaigns, attack vectors, and search for these in client environments
• Be tool agnostic – our Threat Hunting tools may differ from client to client, and we value concepts over tools. The ideal candidate must possess an acute ability to adapt to any tool
• Maintain awareness of the client’s technology architecture, known weaknesses, the architecture of the security solutions used for monitoring, imminent and pervasive threats as identified by threat intelligence, and recent security incidents
• When needed, work with alerts from the SOC Analysts, to perform in depth analysis and triage threat activity based on host and network activity, traffic, and protocol analysis to identify threat/infection vectors, the extent of the infection, and prepare high quality reports based on findings
• Respond to client specific investigation requests around software/application vulnerabilities, zero days, and security incidents
• Document all actions taken in a ticketing workflow management system
• Present threat hunt findings to clients occasionally – proven presentation and communication skills are essential
• Serve as a subject matter expert in at least one security-related functional area (e.g. malware reverse engineering, python programming, digital forensics, etc.)
• Adhere to internal operational security and other Deloitte policies
• Hunt for new patterns, activities, and ever-changing tactics associated with advanced threat actors
• Provide Security information and event management (SIEM) content development and testing support
• Provide recommendations for remediation of assets identified during hunting/minimize risk associated with threat. These include but are not limited to security upgrades, configuration changes, and SIEM content recommendations
• When necessary, devise and document new techniques, automation, and procedures along with the service leadership
• Mentor junior threat hunters and run training sessions
• Foster a culture of collaboration and build team members’ strengths
• Collaborate with service leadership to help grow the service

The team: Deloitte’s Detect & Respond (D&R) aims to combine sophisticated technologies and human intelligence to help the clients monitor, detect, investigate, and respond to known and unknown attacks. We help our clients to be secure, vigilant, and resilient in the face of an ever-increasing array of cyber threats and vulnerabilities. The Detect and Respond team delivers service to clients through following key areas:

• Threat detection and response
• Attack surface management
• Threat Intelligence
• Threat Hunting
• Data Protection

Qualifications Must Have Skills/Project Experience/Certifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in one or more of the following fields Intelligence Studies, Information Security, Information Technology, Computer Science, Math, or any other related area.
• 6+ years working in security information and/or technology engineering support experience
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certification in Certified Intrusion Analyst (GIAC), Continuous Monitoring (GMON), Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) or equivalent
• Extensive knowledge on network, endpoint, threat intelligence, as well as the functioning of specific applications or underlying IT infrastructure, and have experience with SIEM technologies, EDR solutions, forensics tools, malware analysis
• Extensive knowledge of Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) tactics, technics and procedures
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience in security technologies such as: Security information and event management (SIEM), IDS/IPS, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Proxy, Web Application Firewall (WAF), Endpoint detection and response (EDR), Anti-Virus, Sandboxing, network- and host- based firewalls, Threat Intelligence, Penetration Testing, etc.
• Understanding of possible attack activities such as network probing/ scanning, DDOS, malicious code activity, etc.
• Understanding of common network infrastructure devices such as routers and switches
• Understanding of basic networking protocols such as TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S
• Basic knowledge in system security architecture and security solutions

Good to Have Skills/Project Experience/Certifications:

• Basic knowledge in programming languages such as Python, Java or Ruby
• Works well both in a team environment and independently
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills
• Self-motivated to improve knowledge and skills
• A strong desire to understand the what as well as the why and the how of security incidents

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree is required. Ideally in Computer Science, Cyber Security, Information Security, Engineering, Information Technology.

Location:

• Bengaluru/Hyderabad/Pune/Chennai

Shift Timings:

• Flexibility for night, weekend, and holiday coverage is essential.
• Must be willing to work 24*7 rotational shifts
• On call support required based on project assignments

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