Senior Threat Hunter
Palo Alto Networks · Posted Oct 6
Network security, cloud security, AI threat defense, and security operations platforms
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About the role
Palo Alto Networks' Threat Hunting team is a global group of security professionals within the Managed Detection and Response (MDR) organization who use big data and investigative techniques to stay ahead of adversaries and protect customers from cyber threats. The team covers threat hunting across Endpoint, Network, Cloud, Identity, and third-party data sources, investigating suspicious activity, IOCs, and threat intelligence. This Senior Threat Hunter role executes threat hunting reports and workflows, investigates leads, supports customer-facing hunting requests and reporting, and escalates major security events, with flexibility required for 24*7 rotational shifts.
What you will do
- Help multinational organizations stay one step ahead of adversaries and cyber threats.
- Collaborate with customers via handling inbound communications
- Provide support and assistance to the Managed Detection and Response (MDR) team for hunting-related activities.
- Serve as a critical line of defense by providing coverage for core threat hunting activities.
- Collaborate with and guide customers by responding to hunting-related requests and issues related to suspected security incidents.
- Execute existing threat hunting reports and hunting workflows, investigate results, and support timely customer reporting.
- Investigate hunting leads based on IOCs, threat intelligence, and internal detections.
- Monitor the threat landscape and help prepare initial context for emerging campaigns, enabling the global team to continue deeper investigation during the week.
- Ensure timely and appropriate escalation of major or high-impact security events to leadership.
- Provide ongoing feedback on findings, hunting reports, queries, and operational workflows to support continuous improvement.
- This position requires flexibility to work in 24*7 rotational shifts depending on business demands
- Contribute to making the world a safer and better place.
- Perform essential threat hunting activities on a wide variety of data sources.
- Gain hands-on experience by executing threat hunting queries, performing data analysis, and interpreting results to identify suspicious activity and potential threats.
- Join a global team of experts who handle threats and adversaries on a global scale daily.
- Enhance your knowledge and experience across multiple cybersecurity domains: Endpoint, Network, Cloud, Identity, and 3rd-party vendor data sources.
- Learn how threat hunting hypotheses are created, executed, validated, and translated into customer-facing outcomes.
- Take part in the continuous improvement of hunting reports, queries, workflows, and operational processes.
- We believe in automation, AI, and scaling.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 3+ years of relevant cybersecurity experience, preferably in threat hunting, incident investigation, SOC analysis, detection engineering, DFIR, MDR, or a similar security operations role.
- Strong understanding of the evolving threat landscape, including attack tools, tactics, and techniques, as well as networking and security fundamentals.
- Experience investigating suspicious activity, security incidents, or targeted threats across endpoints, networks, identity, and cloud.
- Ability to work independently, make sound investigative decisions, and escalate when findings require additional review or urgent action.
- Experience handling customer-facing or stakeholder-facing security requests, including clear written communication, investigation summaries, and recommendations.
- Understanding of attacker behaviors, including attack vectors, execution, persistence, privilege escalation, lateral movement, credential theft, command and control, and data exfiltration.
- Background in writing, modifying, or executing detections, hunting queries, or log-based investigations.
- Familiarity with organizational cybersecurity measures, including protective tools, response actions, and remediation techniques.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to clearly document investigation logic, findings, and conclusions.
- Knowledge of threat hunting methodologies and the ability to learn novel techniques.
- Experience in an Incident Response environment is a plus.
- Proficiency in Python and SQL is beneficial.
- Familiarity with malware analysis is advantageous (e.g. malicious script deobfuscation).
- Ability to simplify and clarify complex ideas.
- Experience writing technical reports, investigation summaries, or customer-facing security analysis.
- Ability to analyze and understand the infrastructure, behaviors, and objectives of malicious campaigns.
- Self-starter who can work independently and adapt to changing priorities.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks is a global cybersecurity leader that delivers integrated platforms and services across network security, cloud security, and security operations. Leveraging advanced artificial intelligence and threat intelligence through Unit 42, the company helps tens of thousands of enterprise and government customers worldwide protect against sophisticated cyber threats.
- Industry
- Cybersecurity
- Company size
- 16000+ employees
- Founded
- 2005
- Location
- Santa Clara, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $65.7M raised
- 2008-11-01Series C$40M
Leadership
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Chief Product and Technology Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Information Officer
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