Job Description

When you join Verizon

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the V Team Life.

What you’ll be doing...

Must be a current participant of the Department of Defense Skillbridge Program or of the Hiring our Heroes Corporate Fellowship Program.

Verizon is responsible for performing proactive detection of advanced threat actors within our network. Our analysts spend each day hunting for evidence of threat activity and working with network and security teams to improve detection capabilities and security controls. As a Threat Hunter, you’ll be responsible for proactively hunting for threats and continuously growing your technical skill set in this area. 

Responsibilities include:

• Conducting threat hunting operations in Verizon’s most complex and critical network environments.

•  Analyzing log data to detect active threats within the network using knowledge of the current threat landscape, threat actor techniques, and the internal network. 

• Performing advanced threat research to proactively identify potential threat vectors and work with network and security teams to improve prevention and detection methods.

• Leveraging Verizon’s collected data to find indicators of compromise.

• Developing expertise on the Verizon threat landscape using internal data, threat trends, and operational metrics to clearly communicate the Verizon threat landscape.

• Coordinating with multidisciplinary teams across network organizations to iteratively improve security controls and detection capabilities. 

• Conducting time-sensitive analysis during cyber investigations, including active threat hunting and malware analysis. 

• Analyzing malicious code, packet capture files, and artifacts. 

• Identifying gaps in logging capabilities and developing and proposing strategies to fill gaps. 

• Identifying and proposing automated alerts for new and previously unknown threats.

• Collaborating with teams across the Cyber organization to mitigate risk by testing, deploying, and developing investigative playbook.  

What we’re looking for...

You’ll need to have:

• Must be a current participant of the Department of Defense Skillbridge Program or of the Hiring our Heroes Corporate Fellowship Program.

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.

• Three or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through work experience and/or military experience.

• Two years of experience in cyber security or information technology. 

• Two years of experience conducting Cyber Security investigations. 

• Two years of experience working with SIEM Security Tools. 

• Two years of experience with system, application, and network logs.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

•  Basic understanding of network device events, Netflow, and BGP data.

• Three or more years of experience with incident response, security operations, malware analysis, or threat hunting. 

• Three or more years of experience with application of data science concepts and techniques to enable advanced threat detection. 

• Three or more years of experience with Red Teaming or Penetration Testing tools and techniques.  

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and a minimum eight assigned office days per month that will be set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Equal Employment Opportunity 

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.