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Senior Manager, Cyber Threat Researcher, Cyber Intelligence (Remote Eligible)

The mission of Capital One's Cyber Intelligence service is to leverage cyber threat intelligence for good. The team's mission is to counter, disrupt and mitigate cyber adversaries targeting Capital One customers, associates, infrastructure and brand. We are looking for a Cyber Threat Researcher who is able to apply systems thinking, rich technical curiosity, and engineering techniques to accurately detect, characterize, emulate, and predict cyber threats and adversary intentions.

You have a growth mindset when it comes to maintaining expertise and knowledge in threat adversary trends and technologies. We are looking for someone who takes a forward leaning, innovative approach to problem solving, with passion for solving problems at Capital One scale and the desire to collaborate across functional teams. The ideal candidate should be comfortable showing off a constant technical curiosity, "getting into the weeds" on emerging technologies and how they can be used by actors and fraudsters with ill intent.

Responsibilities:

• Create mechanisms to "connects the dots" between different internal and external data sources in order to combine "signals" in data that automatically highlight cyber threats across advanced enterprise threat activities and fraud activity

• Maintain industry-wide expertise of the current cyber threat landscape and attack vectors

• Synthesize disparate sets of data from sources such as malware, cyber attack patterns, closed and open-source intelligence, and tokenized consumer flows to inform instrumentation, detections, and threat narratives such as storyboards

• Build productive relationships with internal teams to contextualize, influence and inform Capital One's business units on emerging threats

• Communicate investigative outcomes with technical architecture context and conclusions to a variety of audiences, including company senior leadership and business partners

Capital One is open to hiring a Remote Employee for this opportunity.

Basic Qualifications:

• High School Diploma, GED or equivalent certification

• At least 6 years of experience working in cybersecurity or information technology

• At least 6 years of experience working in incident response, threat hunting, threat intelligence, forensics, or offensive security

• At least 5 years of experience in conducting investigations or research into cyber-enabled fraud, cybercrime, or advanced persistent threats

• At least 3 years of experience with cyber threat intelligence threat frameworks such as Lockheed Martin Cyber Kill Chain, Diamond Model, MITRE ATT&CK, ATLAS, Defense or Engage

• At least 3 years of experience in programming or scripting with Python, Perl, PHP, PowerShell or SQL

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree

• 8 + years of experience working in cybersecurity or information technology

• 8 + years of experience performing incident response, threat hunting, threat intelligence, forensics, or offensive security

• 3+ years of experience with public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP)

• 3+ years of experience in a highly regulated industry (financial sector, financial technology, healthcare, or intelligence community)

• 1+ year of experience working with Generative and Agentic AI tools

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization, or offer any immigration related support for this position (i.e. H1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN, or another type of work authorization).

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

Remote (Regardless of Location): $209,000 - $238,500 for Sr Manager, Cyber Technical

Chicago, IL: $209,000 - $238,500 for Sr Manager, Cyber Technical

McLean, VA: $229,900 - $262,400 for Sr Manager, Cyber Technical

New York, NY: $250,800 - $286,200 for Sr Manager, Cyber Technical

Plano, TX: $209,000 - $238,500 for Sr Manager, Cyber Technical

Richmond, VA: $209,000 - $238,500 for Sr Manager, Cyber Technical

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate's offer letter.

This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at theCapital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City's Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia's Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.

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