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INTRODUCTION

When you join Verizon

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife.

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

What you’ll be doing...

The Network Threat Hunting role is crucial for maintaining the security of Verizon's network. Their primary objective is to proactively identify threats within Verizon's network. Professionals in this role combine their deep knowledge of security and networking with an understanding of the current threat landscape and various attack methodologies. By providing actionable intelligence to network and security teams, they aim to predict, mitigate, prevent, or respond to active and potential threats that could negatively impact Verizon's network operations.

• Staying up-to-date on emerging global threat activity and trends from both state and non-state actors and the threats they pose to the telecommunications infrastructure.
• Leading the analysis of network traffic and events, anomalous patterns with a focus on threats missed by automated security tools, or are unknown and unprecedented, and presenting actionable insights in artifacts to stakeholder organizations.
• Creating and evolving network threat hunting techniques through analyzing current and past incidents and breaches using internal and external data sources and intelligence.
• Conducting time-sensitive analysis during cyber investigations, including active network threat hunting and malware analysis.
• Proactively identifying potential network threat vectors and vulnerabilities through advanced threat research and analyzing log data, malicious code, packet captures, behavioral analytics and other artifacts to detect active and potential threats.
• Creating hypotheses and predictions of possible network threats and vulnerabilities, and working with other partner teams to validate.
• Cultivating and maintaining strong working relationships with Verizon's network threat intelligence partners and conveying substantive findings from threat hunting findings.
• Creating and maintaining documentation on threat hunting findings, processes and hand offs.
• Providing recommendations on tools, capabilities or datasets that may support the network threat hunting goals.
• Identifying gaps in network logging capabilities and developing strategies to address them.
• Identifying and proposing automated alerts for new and previously unknown network threats.
• Developing expertise on Verizon’s network threat landscape using internal data, threat trends, and operational metrics, and clearly communicating this landscape to stakeholders.
• Serving as an expert on network threat hunting methodology and providing peer reviews and mentoring to other team members.
• Ensuring the organization meets established metrics, including administrative, auditory, and KPIs.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

What we’re looking for...

We're looking for a threat hunter with strong critical thinking and analytical skills, comprehensive knowledge of Verizon’s network and security mechanisms, and a current understanding of the evolving threat landscape. This individual will be responsible for deriving insights from extensive network data to identify threats potentially overlooked by automated systems. The threat hunter will leverage historical events, logs, and data enrichment within a collaborative environment to connect disparate information, think creatively and generate actionable artifacts for stakeholder teams. These efforts will be crucial in proactively safeguarding Verizon’s network and customers from current and future threats. The successful candidate will demonstrate a commitment to continuous learning, contributing to the evolution of threat hunting methodologies within the broader threat intelligence organization, and supporting partner stakeholder organizations.

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Four or more years of relevant work experience.
• Four more years of experience in designing, testing or operating networks with switching and routing experience (including OSI model, protocols, BGP data and Netflow).

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Four or more years of experience in cyber related fields including but not limited to cyber security, information technology, SIEM security tools, cyber security investigations Network Security, Computer Security, Intelligence Analysis, Information Assurance, Incident Response, Intrusion Detection, Malware Analysis, Information Security Management, Penetration Testing, Vulnerability Management, Red team, Blue Team, Purple Team.
• Master’s Degree or certifications in Computer Science, Telecommunications Engineering, Cyber Security, Systems Engineering or related disciplines.
• A proven track record in managing complex processes, driving results, and adapting to change.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Software programming and scripting experience.
• Data Science methodologies applied to network data to enable advanced threat detection.
• Ability to thrive in a high-intensity, production-driven, and dynamic environment.
• Experience with data analytics, AI or Machine learning methodologies.
• Experience in the Diamond Model of Intrusion Analysis, Lockheed Martin Cyber Kill Chain & MITRE ATT&CK.
• Experience in Cybersecurity, Networks.
• At least two years of experience with incident response, security operations, malware analysis, or threat hunting.
• At least three years of experience with application of data science concepts and techniques to enable advanced threat detection.
• Working knowledge of tools such as Splunk and Elastic Search, Grafana, Netscout.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

LOCATION

Where you’ll be working

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes working from home and a minimum of three days per week in the office, which will be set by your manager. Employees are responsible for maintaining compliance with hybrid work policies.

SCHEDULED WEEKLY HOURS

40

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.

BENEFITS AND COMPENSATION

Our benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and wellness benefit options including: medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance. We also offer a matched 401(k) savings plan, up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year, paid parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition assistance, plus other incentives, we’ve got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. Depending on the role, employees have the opportunity to receive compensation in the form of premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, allowances, etc. Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service. For part-timers, your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances.

The salary will vary depending on your location and confirmed job-related skills and experience. This is an incentive based position with the potential to earn more. For part-time roles, your compensation will be adjusted to reflect your hours. The annual salary range for the location(s) listed on this job requisition based on a full-time schedule is: $101,000.00 - $194,000.00.