Senior Threat Hunter

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This role could be done in a Hybrid or Remote setting from anywhere in USA

The Threat Intelligence & Analytics team is part of the BMO Financial Crimes Unit which (first founded in 2019) which brought together its Enterprise capabilities in Cybersecurity, Fraud and Physical Security into a fully integrated and centralized function. 

This particular team is responsible for tactical cyber threat analysis and partnerships with the Hunt team, SOC, detection team and other cyber stakeholders. A successful candidate will have a great mix of cyber security threat hunting experience, technical capabilities, and strong communicator. They will be working collaboratively within multi-disciplines teams to research, analyze and create actionable plans to share with our internal and external stakeholders to protect our customers and employees.

Proactively searches for signs of compromises or anomalies, analyzes data to identify patterns or activities deviating from the norm, formulates and tests hypotheses about potential threats, stay informed about the latest threat intelligence, respond to incidents, develop new tools and techniques.

What will you do:

• Tracks trends and bad actors in assumed breaches
• Performs security gap analysis and assessments
• Supports SOC operations
• Analyzes actor profiles, develops detections
• Develops tactical reporting and/or presentation decks for senior management
• Reviews and analyze network logs, performs scripting
• Gathers requirements and documents these requirements for use in various audits, reports, & projects.
• Identifies opportunities to strengthen the capability of the information security organization at BMO, such as: sharing expertise to promote technical development, mentoring employees, building communities of practice and networks across information security and technology.
• Analyzes data and information to provide insights and recommendations.
• Collects, organizes, analyzes and disseminates significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy.
• Develops and implements data collection systems and other strategies that optimize statistical efficiency and data quality.
• Identifies, analyzes, and interprets trends or patterns in complex data sets.
• Recommends approaches to streamline and integrate information security processes in the organization to improve overall efficiency.
• Broader work or accountabilities may be assigned as needed.

Qualifications:

• Post-secondary degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems
• Experience in Threat Hunting or 5+ years in Cyber Security (with a high concentration of threat hunting)
• Data manipulation and analysis skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy - Expert.
• Familiar with …