Threat Hunting Consultant

📋 Description

• Conduct hypothesis-driven threat hunts across endpoint, identity, network, and security analytics
• Use Defender and Splunk platforms to investigate suspicious activity and attacker behaviors.
• Develop and refine high-fidelity detection rules, correlation searches, and threat-hunting queries
• Apply MITRE ATT&CK framework to guide hunting, detection coverage, and defensive improvements.
• Perform incident response, endpoint forensics, malware analysis, and investigations to determine
• Translate threat intelligence into actionable detection logic, hypotheses, and response procedures.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years in threat hunting, detection engineering, incident response, or related security
• Extensive hands-on experience with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Microsoft 365 Defender/XDR.
• Expert-level Splunk Enterprise Security with advanced SPL for threat hunting and investigations.
• Experience with Splunk UBA or comparable behavioral analytics platforms.
• Advanced proficiency in KQL and developing hunting/detection queries.
• Strong knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK and modern attack techniques; proven capability to develop

🎁 Benefits

• Annual salary range of $110,000–$130,000.
• Full-time opportunity focused on cybersecurity, threat hunting, and detection engineering.
• Remote work environment with flexibility to collaborate from Brazil.
• Opportunities to work with Microsoft Defender, Splunk, and behavioral analytics platforms.
• Exposure to complex security investigations, enterprise-scale threat detection, incident response
• Contribute to security strategy, knowledge sharing, training, and mentoring.