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About the Job:

The Senior Threat Hunt Engineer is an advanced and highly trusted role supporting the enterprise cybersecurity program. As a member of Northwestern Mutual's Threat Hunting Program under theThreat Intelligenceumbrella, the Senior Threat Hunt Engineer is primarily responsible for developing andmaintainingthe operational and technical foundation of the program including automation, tooling integration, detection handoff pipelines, and AI-assisted hunt workflows. Grounded in threat intelligence and hunt experience, the Senior Threat Hunt Engineer also executes proactive and signal-driven hunts across endpoint, network, cloud, and identity telemetry, translating findings into durable detections and institutional knowledge.

This role works closely with internal technical teams - including Threat Intelligence, Detection & Response, Detection Engineering, Adversarial Simulation, Purple Team, Incident Command, and Governance, Risk & Compliance - and with peer organizations, industry-sharing groups, and law enforcement affiliations whereappropriate. The Senior Threat Hunt Engineer supports the hunt community across Cyber Defense, contributes engineering rigor to hunt artifacts, and ensures repeatable, version-controlled hunt processes as the program matures from manual to increasingly automated operations.

What You'll Do:

• Maintain and mature the operational hunt frameworkused across Cyber Defense. Build, document, and refine the templates, integrations, andstandardshunters from multiple teams follow.
• Design, build, andmaintainintegrations and automationacross the hunt lifecycle - spanning work-tracking, collaboration, ticketing, knowledge management, SIEM, EDR, threat intelligence platforms, and reporting.
• Execute hunts and support the hunt community across teams. Perform proactive and signal-driven hunts, respond to hunt questions from hunters across Cyber Defense, and partner with Threat Intelligence to translate hunt-informed analysis into actionable intelligence. Synthesize hunt outcomes into cross-hunt correlations, control gap identification, and inputs to future hunts and detections.
• Partner with detection engineering to translate hunt findingsinto production rules and analytics. Contributedetectioncandidates through the established handoff pipeline.
• Consume and apply threat intelligence to hunt activity. Track adversary and threat cluster TTPs relevant to Northwestern Mutual, prioritize what matters, and translate intel into hunt hypotheses.
• Mentor analysts and junior hunters. Pair on investigations, lead technical deep-dives, and grow the hunt capability across teams.
• Report on program outcomes. Communicate findings to internal stakeholders - what was found, what wascontained, where detection coverage gaps exist, and what was changed as a result.
• Evaluate, integrate, andmaintainsecurity toolingused by the Threat Hunting Program, including threat intelligence platforms, enrichment services, and hunt-supporting analytical tools.
• Evaluate and integrate AIto accelerate hunt workflows, including hypothesis drafting, MITRE ATT&CK mapping suggestion, query generation, and summarization, withappropriate humanreview and tracking.
• Researchcurrent and emerging cyber threatsfacing the business and industrysector.
• Track threat actors, threat clusters, and associated malware families relevant to Northwestern Mutual and the financial services sector.
• Document threats into contextual reportsoutlining severity, urgency, and impact, and ensure they can be understood by both leadership and technical teams.
• Serve as a trusted advisortomaintaincredibility with business unit leadership and technical teams.
• Actively inform andengage in security projectsacross the business to disrupt active or potential threats.
• Participate incollaborative threat analysis discussionswith internal and external trusted entities.
• Perform other dutiesas assigned.

What You'll Bring to the Role:

• A minimum of 5-10 years in threat intelligence, threat hunting, incident response, or detection engineering, with meaningful experience across both threat intelligence and threat hunting disciplines.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, cybersecurity, engineering, ora relatedfield (or equivalent experience).
• Relevant certifications such as GCTI, GCIH, GCFA, GCIA, GCDA, OSCP, CEH, or CISSP are a plus. Cloud-focused security certifications (e.g., AWS Security Specialty, GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer) are also valued.
• Deep hands-on experience running proactive and signal-driven hunts across SIEM, EDR, network, cloud, and identity telemetry in enterprise environments.
• Strong scripting and automation skills; Pythonrequired, withadditionalexperience in PowerShell, Bash, or equivalenta plus.
• Deep hands-on experience with enterprise SIEM search languages, including advanced query development, dashboard building, saved searches, alerting, and query optimization at enterprise scale.
• Hands-on experience developing and consuming REST APIs across security tooling - including work-tracking, collaboration, ticketing, SIEM, EDR, and threat intelligence platforms.
• Demonstrated experience building event-driven automation using webhooks or similar integration patterns.
• Experience building, integrating, andmaintainingsecurity tooling and workflows at enterprise scale.
• Working knowledge of version control workflows, branching strategies, and code review practices.
• Ability to write clear technical documentation forautomationand integrations, including runbooks for maintenance and troubleshooting.
• Ability to communicate complex findings clearly to both technical and leadership audiences.
• Advanced analytical reasoning skills.
• Applicable knowledge of adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), the MITRE ATT&CK framework, the unified kill chain, and open-source intelligence (OSINT).
• Hands-on experience with SIEM, intrusion detection/prevention systems, threat intelligence platforms, and security orchestration and automation platforms.
• Ability to analyze host, network, cloud, and identity telemetry; strong understanding of operating system internals; working knowledge of malware behavior, vulnerabilities, and exploitation techniques.
• Experience with incident collaboration, adversary tooling, and threat-informed defensemethodology.
• Capable of working with diverse teams across Cyber Defense; comfortable operating in a cross-team enablement role rather than a single-team hunt queue.
• Demonstrated understanding of network, host, cloud, and identity cybersecurity solutions.
• Ability tomaintaina high levelof integrity, trustworthiness, and confidence, with the highest level of professionalism.
• Strong project management, multitasking, and organizational skills with minimum guidance.
• Ability to preserve credibility with the team and external constituents through sustained industry knowledge.
• Self-starter requiring minimal supervision.

Nice to Have Skills:

• Experience with AI-assisted security workflows andappropriate operationalguardrails.
• Familiarity with structured, version-controlled hunt methodologies.
• Experience building andmaintainingCI/CD pipelines for security content.
• Experience building or contributing to a new or evolving threathuntor detection engineering program, as opposed to onlyoperatingwithin an established one.
• Experience with SOAR platforms and playbook development.
• Experience with cloud-native security tooling and cloud API integration.
• Experience in financial services or another regulated industry.
• Contributions to open-source security tooling, published research, or public threat intelligence.

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