Cybersecurity Operations - Senior Threat Hunter

Working in cybersecurity takes passion for technology, speed, a desire to learn, and vigilance in order to keep every asset safe. You'll be on the front lines of innovation, working with a highly motivated team focused on analyzing, designing, developing and delivering solutions built to stop adversaries and strengthen our operations. Your research and work will ensure stability, capacity and resiliency of our products. Working with your internal team, as well as technologists and innovators across our global network, your ability to identify threats, provide intelligent analysis and positive actions will stop crimes and strengthen our data.

As a Senior Threat Hunter at JPMorgan Chase within the Cyber Security organization, you will fit into a global team providing 24/7 monitoring and Incident Response, acting as the frontline for attacks against the firms’ infrastructure. As a Senior Threat Hunter, your role will include advanced analysis, threat hunting, evaluation of new security technology as well as ensuring larger technology projects at the company are ready to be integrated into the Attack Analysis team and monitoring function. There is also an emphasis on coaching and mentoring in this role; you'll work to bring up the technical expertise of the entire team around you. This could include running training sessions for the team in range or virtual environments, leading hunting exercises, serving as a technical escalation point and coaching the team through adopting monitoring responsibility. You won't be directly managing a team, but will be seen as a leader.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Min. 3 years of hands-on experience in Security Operations and Incident Response or Computer Network Operations (CNO) or Computer Network Defense (CND


• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Digital Forensics or equivalent qualification


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to describe security event details and technical analysis with audiences within the cybersecurity organization and other technology groups.


• Proficiency in threat hunting in a large, enterprise network both as an individual and as a member of a global threat hunting team.


• Ability to independently initiate and lead large scale threat hunting operations, utilizing threat intelligence feeds and other relevant inputs.


• Experience with log analysis and correlation of large datasets from multiple data sources to identify and investigate attack patterns.


• Ability to perform packet-level analysis and strong understanding of common network protocols and the OSI model.


• Experience with the creation and tuning of alerting rules from a SIEM and other devices in response to changing threats.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with regular expressions and their applications.


• Experience with Digital Forensics & Incident Response processes including memory & file system analysis methodologies.


• Experience with analyzing Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) telemetry and excellent knowledge of operating system internals (Windows, Linux, macOS)


• Knowledge with command line tools across Windows and Linux


• Experience using scripting languages (Python, PowerShell, Bash, etc.) to parse machine-generated data, interact with REST APIs and automate repetitive tasks.


• Familiarity with malware analysis (both static and dynamic), binary triage, and file format analysis

When you work at JPMorgan Chase & Co., you’re not just working at a global financial institution. You’re an integral part of one of the world’s biggest tech companies. In 14 technology hubs worldwide, our team of 40,000+ technologists design, build and deploy everything from enterprise technology initiatives to big data and mobile solutions, as well as innovations in electronic payments, cybersecurity, machine learning, and cloud development. Our $9.5B+ annual investment in technology enables us to hire people to create innovative solutions that will not only transform the financial services industry, but also change the world. 

At JPMorgan Chase & Co. we value the unique skills of every employee, and we’re building a technology organization that thrives on diversity.  We encourage professional growth and career development, and offer competitive benefits and compensation.  If you’re looking to build your career as part of a global technology team tackling big challenges that impact the lives of people and companies all around the world, we want to meet you.  

It's time to take your career to the next level, and we can help. Apply today.