Bank of America
Threat Hunter
$100K–$141K
Chicago +2 · Full-time · Posted Aug 18, 2026
- Location
- Chicago
Washington
Denver - Experience
- 5+ years; the posting lists experience areas as alternatives.
About the job
Develops threat-hunting strategies and analytics to uncover malicious activity across the bank’s environments, collaborating with cyber defense and data science teams.
What you'll do
- Analyze and correlate large datasets and logs to identify novel threats and attack techniques.
- Develop and document threat-hunt hypotheses and analytical methods with threat research, data science, and cyber defense teams.
- Advise on product assessments, policy adjustments, and architectural changes affecting security controls.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of technical experience in Security Operation, Incident Response, Detection Engineering, Offensive Security/Red Team, or Cyber Threat Intelligence.
- Experience analyzing system, network, and application logs for attacks across the cyber kill chain.
- Experience with large datasets and log-analysis tools, including Splunk, Python, Pandas, SQL, Hadoop, or Hue.
- Experience consuming and analyzing Cyber Threat Intelligence for actionable takeaways.
Nice to have
- Experience with enterprise-scale EDR and SIEM tools.
- Experience with offensive security tools or techniques, or digital forensics or incident response on major security incidents.
Pay
$100,000.00 - $141,300.00 annualized salary (USD; base salary)
Tools
Splunk, Python, Pandas, SQL, Hadoop, Hue, Cobalt Strike, Metasploit
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