Senior Threat Hunter

About Us

Sophos is a global leader and innovator of advanced security solutions that defeat cyberattacks, including Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and incident response services and a broad portfolio of endpoint, network, email, and cloud security technologies. As one of the largest pure-play cybersecurity providers, Sophos defends more than 600,000 organizations and more than 100 million users worldwide from active adversaries, ransomware, phishing, malware, and more. Sophos’ services and products connect through the Sophos Central management console and are powered by Sophos X-Ops, the company’s cross-domain threat intelligence unit. Sophos X-Ops intelligence optimizes the entire Sophos Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem, which includes a centralized data lake that leverages a rich set of open APIs available to customers, partners, developers, and other cybersecurity and information technology vendors. Sophos provides cybersecurity-as-a-service to organizations needing fully managed security solutions. Customers can also manage their cybersecurity directly with Sophos’ security operations platform or use a hybrid approach by supplementing their in-house teams with Sophos’ services, including threat hunting and remediation. Sophos sells through reseller partners and managed service providers (MSPs) worldwide. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.

Role Summary

As a Cyber Threat Hunter part of our Managed Detection & Response (MDR) Team, you will leverage your experience, expertise, and cybersecurity knowledge of adversary behaviors to identify activity that may have bypassed detections. The role will require knowledge of all scopes of threat actor activity on the endpoint, including Windows, Linux and MacOS. Advanced knowledge of all aspects of process execution and understanding how attacks are chained together is critical. This position can be worked remotely in Canada.

What You Will Do

• Plan and independently execute proactive threat hunts across all MDR customers.
• Thoroughly document threat hunt tickets to support metrics and reporting.
• Understand existing in place detections to ensure threat hunts are relevant to addressing a gap.
• Provide extensive details and feedback to detection teams to advance customer protection.
• Keep abreast of and incorporate the latest internal and external intelligence into the hunt planning process.
• Support ad-hoc and long-term projects as assigned my leadership to improve threat hunting processes and technical capabilities.
• Act as a resource for more junior analysts requiring any support during an active incident.

What You Will Bring

• 5+ years of professional experience as a Threat Hunter, Incident Response, or Detection Analyst.
• Experience analyzing operating system and application logs with the ability to separate normal baseline activity from suspicious activity requiring further analysis.
• Experience with developing complex search queries including use of SQL and RegEx.
• Knowledge of statistical techniques for uncovering anomalies in large data sets.
• Ability to apply creative and critical thinking when approaching issues.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both in writing and verbally, for delivery briefings to varied audiences of technical, operational, and senior client staff.
• Experience providing oral and written briefings to executive leadership.
• Experience working closing with detection teams to create preventative or alerting rules.
• Cybersecurity certifications (preferred)
• BA or BS degree (preferred)

In the United States, the base salary for this role ranges from $121,000 to $201,000. In addition to base salary, we offer additional compensation including bonus eligibility and a comprehensive benefits package. A candidate’s specific pay within this range will depend on a variety of factors, including job-related skills, training, location, experience, relevant education, certifications, and other business and organizational needs. 

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What's Great About Sophos?

· Sophos operates a remote-first working model, making remote work the primary option for most employees. However, some roles may necessitate a hybrid approach. Please refer to the location details in our job postings for further information.

· Our people – we innovate and create, all of which are accompanied by a great sense of fun and team spirit

· Employee-led diversity and inclusion networks that build community and provide education and advocacy

· Annual charity and fundraising initiatives and volunteer days for employees to support local communities

· Global employee sustainability initiatives to reduce our environmental footprint

· Global fitness and trivia competitions to keep our bodies and minds sharp

· Global wellbeing days for employees to relax and recharge 

· Monthly wellbeing webinars and training to support employee health and wellbeing

Our Commitment To You

We’re proud of the diverse and inclusive environment we have at Sophos, and we’re committed to ensuring equality of opportunity. We believe that diversity, combined with excellence, builds a better Sophos, so we encourage applicants who can contribute to the diversity of our team. All applicants will be treated in a fair and equal manner and in accordance with the law regardless of gender, sex, gender reassignment, marital status, race, religion or belief, color, age, military veteran status, disability, pregnancy, maternity or sexual orientation. We want to give you every opportunity to show us your best self, so if there are any adjustments we could make to the recruitment and selection process to support you, please let us know. 

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