Cyber Security Threat Hunter - 11832SR

PermanentUnited Kingdom, UKPosted 18 hours ago11832SR
60k – 68k per year + Bonus + Brilliant BenefitsCyber Security Threat Hunter – RemoteOur client is urgently looking for an experienced Cyber Security Threat Hunter to join their team on a permanent basis.

Please note, the role is 100% remote, but a hybrid/on-site working arrangement can be made if you prefer this.

You will be well versed in Threat Hunting within the Cyber Security arena, including Ethical Hacking (CEH is advantageous).You will be rewarded with an excellent salary, as well as a brilliant benefits package including bonus (up to 15%), remote working, private healthcare, medicash, income protection, death in service x4 salary, cycle to work scheme and many, many more perks!

Cyber Security Threat Hunter – Key Skills: Incident response processes/methodologies and SIEM operationsSecurity tooling, reporting, and delivering work in a structured/project-based wayIT/networking/security fundamentals including operating systems, networking and digital forensicsMicrosoft Azure and Microsoft 365 cloud technologiesThreat intelligence-driven hunting: Demonstrated use of threat intelligence to plan hunts, enrich detections, and block malicious infrastructureWindows and identity fundamentals: Strong understanding of Windows security concepts and Microsoft identity (Active Directory and Entra ID), including authentication and token flows (Kerberos/NTLM/OAuth), device join states, MFA/Conditional Access concepts, and common identity attack pathsEndpoint telemetry literacy: Ability to interpret process trees and command lines, PowerShell activity, scheduled tasks/services, registry and file changes, WMI usage, persistence techniques, and LOLBins and to connect these artifacts to Defender alerts and timelinesMicrosoft 365 and cloud security foundations: Familiarity with email security and message flow (Exchange Online), and investigation pivots across SharePoint/OneDrive/Teams activity and Azure logs where relevant to XDR incidentsDetection engineering mindset: Experience translating hunts and red team findings into practical detections and improvements (signal selection, tuning, suppression/thresholding, entity mapping, documentation, and operational handoff)KQL depth and query performance: Comfortable using joins/unions, parsing, time-windowing, summarisation, Essential baselining, and performance-aware query patterns for large datasetsCyber Security Threat Hunter – Remote Due to the volume of applications received for positions, it will not be possible to respond to all applications and only applicants who are considered suitable for interview will be contacted.

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