Threat Hunting Analyst

Threat Hunting Specialist

Location: Remote-first (1x a month in Cheltenham)

Salary: Up to £60,000 + package

This is an opportunity to play a key role in developing detection capabilities, proactively identifying threats, and enhancing security monitoring across complex enterprise environments.

What You'll Be Doing

• Develop, implement and maintain security detection use cases across SIEM platforms
• Create and optimise correlation rules, alerts and threat detection content
• Conduct proactive threat hunting activities to identify emerging threats and adversary behaviours
• Map detections and hunting activities to the MITRE ATT&CK framework
• Analyse threat intelligence and convert findings into actionable detections
• Continuously tune and improve detections to reduce false positives and improve coverage
• Investigate suspicious activity and support incident response where required
• Collaborate with security engineers, SOC analysts and stakeholders to mature detection capabilities
• Validate detections through attack simulation and adversary emulation techniques

What We're Looking For

• 3+ years' commercial experience in Threat Hunting, Detection Engineering, or a similar cybersecurity role
• Hands-on experience developing and tuning security use cases and detections
• Strong experience with Splunk Enterprise Security and writing complex SPL (Search Processing Language) queries
• Experience with Microsoft Sentinel and KQL
• Knowledge of SIEM technologies and security monitoring best practices
• Strong understanding of the MITRE ATT&CK framework
• Experience creating correlation searches, analytics rules and custom detections
• Familiarity with threat intelligence, IOC analysis and TTP-driven investigations
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly

If you're passionate about proactive threat detection, and enjoy building security content that makes a measurable impact, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today, or reach out to Sarah McMahon for a confidential discussion.