Cyber Risk Defense Consultant V, Cyber Threat Hunting Lead, (Greensboro, NC)

Tech Summary

The Threat Hunting Lead will serve as the technical lead for Kaiser Permanente's Threat Hunting function within the Threat Intelligence and Detection Engineering (TIDE) team. This role is responsible for proactively identifying advanced threats by leveraging threat intelligence and analyzing endpoint, network, cloud, identity, email, asset, and other security telemetry. The successful candidate will develop and execute threat hunts, translate intelligence into actionable detection and hunting strategies, identify gaps in defensive coverage, and drive improvements to the organization's security posture. Working closely with Threat Intelligence, Detection Engineering, Incident Response, and Cyber Defense teams, the Threat Hunting Lead will provide technical leadership, mentor analysts, communicate findings to both technical and executive audiences, and help ensure Kaiser Permanente remains protected against an evolving threat landscape. The ideal candidate is a collaborative, intellectually curious cybersecurity professional with a passion for emerging threats, data-driven analysis, and continuous improvement.

Job Summary:

This senior level employee is primarily responsible for overseeing the maintenance and protection of integrity and reliability of the security of data, systems and networks.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Conducts or oversees business-specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area; promoting adherence to all procedures and policies; developing work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; determining and carrying out processes and methodologies; coordinating and delegating resources to accomplish organizational goals; partnering internally and externally to make effective business decisions; solving complex problems; escalating issues or risks, as appropriate; monitoring progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; evaluating recommendations made; and influencing the completion of project tasks by others.
• Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by building relationships with cross-functional stakeholders; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; influencing team members within assigned unit; listening and responding to, seeking, and addressing performance feedback; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership and mentoring junior team members; creating and executing plans to capitalize on strengths and improve opportunity areas; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback.
• Leads team in the proactive monitoring and/or response to known or emerging threats against the KP network.
• Effectively communicates investigative findings to non-technical audiences.
• Plans and facilitates regular operations meeting with Cyber Risk Defense Center (CRDC) teams.
• Supports closed loop processes on security efforts by providing feedback to the TDA leads and/or leadership.
• Participates in information fusion procedures across operations and engineering, including activities such as Use Case planning/development, Use Case quality assurance validation, and response procedure documentation.
• Serves as a liaison between stage teams and upper management by identifying issues, improvement areas, or security/architectural gaps and suggesting appropriate improvements.
• Drives the development of the CRDC intellectual capital by leading process or procedure improvements, consulting on brown bag training sessions, and leading the development of new training documents.
• Partners with the CRDC Policy Engineers and Remediation teams to contain identified issues and determine the best approach for improving security posture.
• Facilitates follow-up remediation design and review efforts.
• Leads the investigation and triage of security events across multiple domains.
• Leads complex data analyses in support of security event management processes, including root cause analysis.
• Coordinates the response and resolution of high impact or critical cyber security incidents.
• Leads the deployment of threat detection capabilities and/or incident response plans which may include after-hours support and coordination among responsible teams.
• Drives the execution of incident detection and/or handling processes which may include containment, protection, and remediation activities.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum two (2) years in an informal leadership role working with project or technical teams.
• Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Social Science, Mathematics, or related field and Minimum eight (8) years experience in IT or a related field, including Minimum two (2) years in information security or network engineering. Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.

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