Staff Threat Researcher

Overview

Staff Threat Researcher to analyze emerging threats and adversarial behavior to improve detection capabilities.

What you'll do

• Analyze emerging threats, adversarial behaviors, and TTPs to understand attacker methodologies.
• Conduct proactive and retroactive threat hunting using Zscaler telemetry and behavioral-based methodologies.
• Research, analyze, validate, and document threat hunting findings.
• Independently hunt and respond to customers with flexible operational schedules and on-call support.
• Translate adversary behavior into actionable hunt hypotheses and detection logic.

What you'll need

• Foundational understanding of AI/ML technologies and experience leveraging, securing, or positioning AI-driven solutions.
• Hands-on experience in threat hunting, incident response, security operations, malware analysis, or network defense.
• Practical experience using SIEM tools such as Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, or ElasticSearch.
• Deep familiarity with the MITRE ATT&CK framework and modern tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).
• Advanced scripting and automation skills with Python.
• Expertise writing IDS/IPS and YARA signatures for network-based threat detection.

Details

• Role is Hybrid and reports to the Senior Manager in the Threat Hunting department.