Senior Threat Hunter

6 days ago


Toronto, Ontario, Canada RBC - Royal Bank Full time

Senior Cyber Threat Hunter

Join our Cyber Threat Hunting team at RBC, where you will be part of a dynamic and collaborative environment that thrives on innovation and progressive thinking. As a Senior Cyber Threat Hunter, you will play a key role in proactively identifying and mitigating sophisticated threat actors and insider threats.

About the Role

  • Create detection engineering solutions to identify and mitigate sophisticated threat actors and insider threats
  • Analyze and research Tactics Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) and malware samples to create detections based on industry leading frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK
  • Develop and lead Purple Team Exercises to discover and mitigate emerging threats
  • Innovate and create novel solutions, including User Behavior Analytics (UBA) models, by leveraging Data Science and Machine Learning (ML)
  • Collaborate with multiple teams, including Adversary Emulation, Data Science, Threat Intelligence, Security Operation Centre, and Digital Forensics and Incident Response, to drive pragmatic cyber security improvement
  • Work closely with our Development team to create and enhance our threat hunting in-house developed products
  • Assist in developing, implementing, and refining our defensive tradecraft and tooling
  • Provide advisory and consultation services to senior executive management and perform as a cyber security SME for emerging threats and investigations
  • Work with vast data sources, data lakes, and security vendor solutions
  • Contribute to the ongoing enhancement of threat hunting methodologies and overall strategy to detect and alert of cyber threats

Requirements

  • 5+ years of Cyber Security operations experience, preferably with both defensive and offensive roles
  • Strong Innovative and outside of the box thinking mindset
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills
  • Familiarization with the cyber security Kill Chain phases and MITRE ATT&CK framework TTPs
  • Knowledge of offensive security tools, techniques, and procedures
  • Solid grasp of cyber security controls/products, including endpoint, network, application, and infrastructure
  • Well-rounded knowledge of various cyber security domains, focusing on operational security
  • Knowledge of current regional and global threat landscape
  • Foundational knowledge of Python and SQL

Preferred Qualifications

  • Cloud knowledge and expertise of leading cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Hands-on experience in malware analysis, reverse engineering, and security research
  • Financial industry experience or previous experience working for a cyber security team or security vendor
  • Prior experience conducting blue/purple team exercises or penetration testing
  • Strong understanding of computing architecture, OS Internals, and CPU architectures
  • Programming languages such as C++/C#/JavaScript/Assembly
  • Digital Forensics skills, including memory/network/OS/disk forensics
  • Defensive oriented certification, such as GIAC GREM, GCFA, or other reputable, technical, and defensive/offensive focused certification

What We Offer

  • A comprehensive Total Rewards Program, including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable
  • Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
  • Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
  • Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
  • Flexible work/life balance options
  • Opportunities to do challenging work
  • Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities
  • Opportunities to build close relationships with clients

About RBC

RBC is a leading financial institution that thrives on innovation and progressive thinking. We are committed to building inclusive teams and an equitable workplace for our employees to bring their true selves to work. We are taking actions to tackle issues of inequity and systemic bias to support our diverse talent, clients, and communities.

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