Threat Hunter
$100k - $141.3k/yr+ Annual discretionary award
Senior
Washington, DC, USA+2 moreMore locations: Chicago, IL, USA | Denver, CO, USA
Remote
CybersecuritySecurity Operations & Incident Response
About the job
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in a technical role in Security Operations, Incident Response, Detection Engineering, Offensive Security/Red Team, or Cyber Threat Intelligence.
- Experience analyzing system, network, and application logging for attack techniques at all stages of the cyber kill chain.
- Direct experience working with very large datasets and log analysis tools, including Splunk, Python, Pandas, SQL, Hadoop, and Hue.
- Experience consuming and analyzing Cyber Threat Intelligence for actionable takeaways.
- Ability to assess the larger picture across competing organizational requirements and needs to build consensus and drive results.
- Ability to navigate and work effectively across a complex, geographically dispersed organization.
Responsibilities
- Analyze and correlate large datasets to uncover novel threats and attack techniques that may be present within the bank’s environments.
- Collaborate with data science, threat research, and cyber defense control teams to identify opportunities to develop analytical methods for detecting advanced threat actors using emerging tactics and techniques.
- Develop and document threat-hunt hypotheses to improve the team’s ability to find existing threats that otherwise go unidentified or unnoticed.
- Work with Cyber Defense operational and technical teams within Global Information Security to understand critical security controls and architectural specifics, and develop hunt strategies and analytics that identify malicious behavior accurately while maintaining a low false-positive rate.
- Advise on and review product assessments, policy adjustments, and architectural transformations that affect the global Corporation.
- Contribute thought leadership to the design of detective, preventative, and proactive controls.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with more than one enterprise-scale EDR and SIEM tool.
- Ability to self-direct with minimal supervision to achieve assigned goals.
- Experience with offensive security tools such as Cobalt Strike and Metasploit, techniques such as OSINT, and methods used to compromise large enterprise networks.
- Previous experience performing digital forensics or incident response on major security incidents.
About the company
Bank of America runs one of the largest US banks, serving consumers, small businesses, wealthy families, corporations and institutional investors. Alongside checking accounts, credit cards, mortgages and business loans, it owns the Merrill brokerage, a private bank for wealthy clients and a global investment bank that advises on deals and trades stocks and bonds. Customers reach it through thousands of branches and ATMs and its mobile banking app. It earns money mainly from the gap between what it charges on loans and pays on deposits, plus fees from advice, asset management, deal work and trading. It grew from a San Francisco bank founded in 1904 and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Charlotte, North Carolina
Founded
1904
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Profits are climbing: net income rose 27% to $9.1 billion in the June 2026 quarter on trading and dealmaking.
- Tech careers have budget behind them: $4 billion of Bank of America's $13 billion yearly tech spend funds new initiatives.
- Cheap funding cushions profits: $530 billion of its $2.03 trillion in deposits paid no interest at June 2026.
What critics are saying
- Falling rates pinch lending profit: lower rates partly offset its 9% rise in interest income in the June 2026 quarter.
- AI is reshaping jobs: over 200,000 employees use AI tools, sending 400,000-plus prompts daily as of July 2026.
- Succession remains open: CEO Brian Moynihan plans to stay through decade's end after a December 2025 executive shake-up.
What makes Bank of America unique
- Small firms bank here: it serves 4 million small businesses and calls itself the top US small business lender.
- Wealth management is a second engine: Merrill, its brokerage, and the Private Bank oversee about $4.9 trillion in client balances.
- Customers use its chatbot at scale: virtual assistant Erica has logged over 3 billion client interactions since 2018.
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Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Sick Leave
- Flexible Work Hours
- Remote Work Options
- Professional Development Budget
- Conference Attendance Budget