Full-Time
Black Lotus Labs Principal Threat Researcher
CenturyLink
10,001+ employees
Global telecommunications and IT services provider
Compensation Overview
$149.1k - $218.7k/yr
Remote in USA
Remote
 IT & Security (1) |
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- Extensive track record driving scaled threat intelligence from a variety of network and security telemetry sources as well as prototyping new innovative ideas and seeing them through to production.
- Proven experience initiating and coordinating technical projects focused on telemetry collection, TTP based threat hunting, or developing threat hunt tools that have cross-organization impact on threat visibility, including leading private-public partnerships and multi-company collaborations.
- Deep understanding of advanced threat hunting methodologies, attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), and the ability to derive actionable threat hunts from complex data sets.
- Strong programming skills in Python and Apache Spark and track record of architecting distributed computing frameworks to solve security problems. Software development experience in Docker and big data technologies like Hadoop, Spark, and Tensor Flow.
- Functional understanding of machine learning, graph analytics and/or statistical approaches to telemetry in the security domain to detect and track malicious activity using supervised or unsupervised methods.
- Experience driving and aligning cross-team vision and strategy, having collaboratively prioritized and delivered specific multi-year roadmaps and projects.
- Proven track record of managing and executing on short term and long-term projects with complex multi-team dependencies.
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills, including the ability to clearly and concisely convey complex technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences, ranging from executives and board members to conference attendees and internal stakeholders.
- Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple tasks, prioritize effectively, and triage competing demands in a fast-paced environment.
- Serve as Threat Research Subject Matter Expert, offering guidance and support to the Black Lotus Labs team on threat hunting activities, such as identifying knowledge gaps, troubleshooting technical challenges, developing solutions, and mentoring team members in overcoming obstacles. Set priorities for what threats and telemetry to analyze to maximize team’s impact.
- Spearhead threat research across technical data sets, fusing Black Lotus Labs telemetry with third party data sets, to automate detection of the latest threat attacker tools, techniques and procedures (TTPs) with a goal of automating detection.
- Scale analysis of evolving threats and automate detection of emerging threat actor activity. Partner across Lumen to deliver end-to-end solutions to our products and services.
- Serve as the SME on threat intelligence and threat visibility capabilities to drive Lumen Security product innovation and enhancements. Build, cultivate, and maintain impactful relationships with intelligence stakeholders to identify and facilitate solutions to increase the impact of the team's work.
- Use industry-leading technical knowledge of adversary capabilities and infrastructure and define, develop, and implement techniques to lead the team in tracking sophisticated adversaries, delivering actionable threat intelligence data to Lumen customers.
- Provide expert analysis and strategic insights on emerging threats and vulnerabilities, translating complex technical information into actionable intelligence for executive leadership and external stakeholders.
- Contribute to thought leadership initiatives by sharing insights and expertise at security conferences and internal briefings.
CenturyLink, now known as Lumen Technologies, provides telecommunications and IT services for businesses and government. It offers voice communications and network services such as VoIP, SIP Trunking, hosted VoIP, SD-WAN, MPLS, and IPVPN, along with cloud and IT solutions like Big Data as a Service, IoT, and cloud management across hybrid, private, and public clouds. It differentiates itself by offering a broad, integrated portfolio that combines traditional communications with modern network and cloud services at scale, backed by global data centers and infrastructure. Its goal is to help customers communicate, connect, and digitally transform through secure, scalable, and manageable network and cloud solutions.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Monroe, Louisiana
Founded
1930
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Sold ILEC business in 20 states to Brightspeed for $7.5B in October 2023, focusing on enterprises.
- Divested EMEA operations to Colt for $1.8B in November 2023, streamlining core clients.
- Higher-margin security, cloud, IP, UC services generated $4.5B revenue in 2023.
What critics are saying
- Tycko & Zavareei lawsuit over Quantum Fiber 'Price for Life' false ads erodes trust now.
- 940 Mbps fiber speeds lag Verizon Fios 2.3 Gbps and AT&T 5 Gbps, losing SMB share.
- Legacy copper reliance forces FCC-mandated fiber migrations without rival scale by 2028.
What makes CenturyLink unique
- Lumen Platform integrates global fiber, edge cloud, and security for 4th Industrial Revolution apps.
- Quantum Fiber delivers high-speed fiber services to residents and SMBs via CenturyLink brand.
- 450,000 route miles fiber network supports enterprise high-performance networking worldwide.
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Health Insurance
Life Insurance
Remote Work Options
Flexible Work Hours
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