Proactive Threat Hunting & Incident Response: Lead continuous, proactive monitoring and hunting for sophisticated cyber threats and vulnerabilities. Quickly respond to incidents using advanced detection, investigation, and containment techniques.
Security Strategy & Policy Enforcement: Develop, implement, and refine security policies and incident management procedures that safeguard critical systems and data.
Risk Analysis & Innovative Solutions: Conduct in-depth risk assessments and develop strategic mitigation plans. Champion cutting-edge cybersecurity innovations that enhance the company’s defensive posture.
Technical Expertise & Cross-Functional Collaboration: Provide expert-level technical support on security challenges. Collaborate closely with IT and business units to integrate and optimize security controls across all operations
Diverse Cybersecurity Domains: Spearhead initiatives in cyber incident response, threat intelligence, vulnerability management, digital forensics, software assurance, IoT security, policy standards, and more.
Knowledge of tactics, techniques, and procedures associated with malicious insider activity, organized crime/fraud groups and both state and non-state sponsored threat actors.
Understanding of cloud-based architectures and highly distributed big data architectures.
Experience with Malware (including reverse engineering) and with internal and external attacks.
Strong understanding of network security threats including APT, Botnets, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, worms, and network exploits.
Experience with network probing/testing/analysis tools (Nessus, nmap, burp, wireshark, etc.)
Programming skills that will be used to construct, modify, and execute testing tools including shell (ksh, bash), [g]awk, Python, PERL, regex, .NET Programming, Java, C, C++, C#, PowerShell, curl, Web application development (PHP, ASP.NET, etc.)
Deep technical knowledge of Windows, UNIX and Linux operating systems as both an expert user and system administrator.
Comprehensive knowledge of software security testing principles, practices, and tools, experience of vulnerability assessments in a complex environment.
Experience with Malware (including reverse engineering) and with internal and external attacks.
Experience or familiarity with vulnerability analysis, computer forensics tools, cryptography principles.
Excellent teamwork skills for collaboration on analysis techniques, implementation, and reporting.
Must be able to work both independently as well as effectively work in teams of individuals with a variety of skills and backgrounds.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills and have demonstrated ability to present material to senior officials.
Highly self-motivated requiring little direction.
Demonstrates creative/out-of-the-box thinking and good problem-solving skills.
Demonstrates strong ethical behavior.
Familiarity with applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Machine Learning (ML) techniques in cybersecurity contexts (e.g., anomaly detection, threat hunting, behavioral analytics, or risk scoring).
Our Expert Cybersecurity earns between$171,000-$256,400 USD Annual not to mention all the other amazing rewards that working at AT&T offers. Individual starting salary within this range may depend on geography, experience, expertise, and education/training.
