Sr. Threat Hunter

Location

Ottawa, ON | Canada

Job description

OPENTEXT
OpenText is a global leader in information management, where innovation, creativity, and collaboration are the key components of our corporate culture. As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to partner with the most highly regarded companies in the world, tackle complex issues, and contribute to projects that shape the future of digital transformation.

The Threat Hunt Team leverages our people, processes and technology to deliver world-class threat identification and protection for our customers and their data. Companies are recognizing the need to leverage behavioural threat detection for threats more accurately and help protect against insider threats. With this in mind, we work tirelessly to drive improvements across our security services and accelerate our customers’ digital journey in a safe and trusted environment.

Your Impact:

A Threat Hunting role at OpenText is more than just a job; it's an opportunity to impact lives. As a key contributor, you'll be instrumental in utilizing behavioural analytics and advanced threat-hunting technologies to detect and analyze emerging threats, define attack paths, and track threat actors and their tactics, enabling the development of robust behavioural models and proactive defence measures. You will help to extract data and remove the noise to pinpoint internal and external threats. Our client base is global and in nearly every industry.

What the role offers:

As a Senior Threat Hunter, you will:

• Work with behavioural analytics threat-hunting technologies to analyze and identify threat patterns or indicators that can be used for threat detection on our platform.
• Follow the emerging threats and attack techniques by reading detailed analytics anomalies.
• Identify, analyze and define the attack path of advanced intrusions.
• Produce reports that can form the basis for new behavioural models.
• Maintain situational awareness of cyber activity by reviewing new anomalies and tracking attack campaigns through their attack cycle. Track threat actors, tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), and associated Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) through the analytics.
• Follow the analytic results leveraging additional search techniques including Kibana and Athena.

• Possess 5-8 years of previous professional experience.

What you need to Succeed:

• Deep understanding of malware methods, attack tactics, and TTPs.
• Strong familiarity with attacker tradecraft and client relationships.
• Proficiency in utilizing EDR/SOAR/Anomaly detection solutions.
• Experience in incident response, including advanced adversary detection and log analysis.
• Familiarity with Cyber Kill Chain Model and MITRE ATT&CK Matrix (optional).
• Extensive knowledge of Operating Systems, network security concepts, and protocols

One last thing:

OpenText is more than just a corporation, it's a global community where trust is foundational, the bar is raised, and outcomes are owned.

Join us on our mission to drive positive change through privacy, technology, and collaboration. At OpenText, we don't just have a culture; we have character. Choose us because you want to be part of a company that embraces innovation and empowers its employees to make a difference.

OpenText's efforts to build an inclusive work environment go beyond simply complying with applicable laws. Our Employment Equity and Diversity Policy provides direction on maintaining a working environment that is inclusive of everyone, regardless of culture, national origin, race, color, gender, gender identification, sexual orientation, family status, age, veteran status, disability, religion, or other basis protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please contact us at **@opentext.com.

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