Threat Hunting Researcher (Unit 42) at Palo Alto Networks | chakrie

Requirements

3+ years of relevant cybersecurity experience in threat hunting, incident investigation, SOC analysis, detection engineering, DFIR, or MDR.
Strong understanding of the evolving threat landscape, attack tools, tactics, techniques, and networking/security fundamentals.
Experience investigating suspicious activity, security incidents, or targeted threats across endpoints, networks, identity, and cloud.
Ability to work independently, make sound investigative decisions, and escalate findings requiring additional review.
Experience handling customer-facing security requests, including clear written communication, investigation summaries, and recommendations.
Understanding of attacker behaviors, including attack vectors, execution, persistence, privilege escalation, lateral movement, and exfiltration.
Background in writing, modifying, or executing detections, hunting queries, or log-based investigations.
Familiarity with organizational cybersecurity measures, including protective tools, response actions, and remediation techniques.
Excellent written and oral communication skills in English, with strong attention to detail for documenting investigation logic.
Familiarity with malware analysis.
Experience writing technical reports, investigation summaries, or customer-facing security analysis.
Ability to analyze and understand the infrastructure, behaviors, and objectives of malicious campaigns.

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Practical next steps, the documents to prepare and the dates to keep in mind before you apply or get in touch.

Contact details, links to the official source and the notes our team adds after checking each listing by hand.

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