Senior Threat Hunt Engineer (Cybersecurity)

Location: Remote, associated with Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Salary: $118,960–$178,440 per year

Company

hirify.global is a financial services organization focused on serving clients' interests.

What you will do

• Maintain and mature the operational threat hunting framework, including templates, integrations, standards, and version-controlled processes.
• Design, build, and maintain automation and integrations across work tracking, collaboration, ticketing, knowledge management, SIEM, EDR, threat intelligence, and reporting platforms.
• Execute proactive and signal-driven hunts across endpoint, network, cloud, and identity telemetry, translating findings into correlations, control gaps, and future hunt inputs.
• Partner with detection engineering to convert hunt findings into production rules and analytics through an established handoff pipeline.
• Apply threat intelligence to develop hunt hypotheses, track threat actors and malware families, and document contextual reports for technical and leadership audiences.
• Evaluate AI-assisted workflows, mentor analysts and junior hunters, report program outcomes, and support cross-team security initiatives.

Requirements

• 5–10 years of experience in threat intelligence, threat hunting, incident response, or detection engineering, with experience across threat intelligence and threat hunting.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, cybersecurity, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Deep hands-on experience with enterprise SIEM query development, dashboards, saved searches, alerting, optimization, EDR, network, cloud, identity telemetry, and security automation platforms.
• Python scripting is required; experience with REST APIs, event-driven automation, webhooks, version control, code reviews, and technical runbooks is required.
• Knowledge of adversary TTPs, MITRE ATT&CK, the unified kill chain, OSINT, operating system internals, malware behavior, vulnerabilities, and exploitation techniques.
• Strong analytical, communication, project management, organizational, and cross-functional collaboration skills with minimal supervision.

Nice to have

• Certifications such as GCTI, GCIH, GCFA, GCIA, GCDA, OSCP, CEH, or CISSP.
• Cloud security certifications such as AWS Security Specialty or GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer.
• Experience with PowerShell or Bash.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment within an enterprise cybersecurity program.
• Cross-team collaboration across Threat Intelligence, Detection & Response, Detection Engineering, Purple Team, Incident Command, and GRC.
• Remote work designation with compensation adjusted according to candidate location and applicable geographic pay structures.
• Equal opportunity workplace supporting diverse backgrounds and employee development.