Senior Cyber Investigator

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🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

💵 $120k - $160k / year

⏰ Full Time

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TaskUs

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10,000+ employees

Founded 2008

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

💰 Private Equity Round on 2018-08

Healthcare • Logistics • Marketing

TaskUs is a business process outsourcing company that provides digital transformation and technology services to various industries. They offer services including digital customer experience, trust and safety, learning as a service, sales outsourcing, and consulting. TaskUs also specializes in compliance and managing financial crimes, as well as offering AI and data services through their GenAI platform. The company is globally recognized for its high-performance teams, cutting-edge technology, and comprehensive solutions that support industries like entertainment and gaming, financial services, healthcare, social media, retail, and eCommerce.

📋 Description

• Investigate complex abuse cases and appeals escalated by automated detection systems and Junior Investigators • Analyze ransomware and malware authoring/obfuscation • Investigate local and remote exploit discovery and weaponization • Investigate large-scale data scraping and automated exfiltration • Analyze offensive operations, reconnaissance, and intrusion staging • Pivot across accounts, telemetry, and external threat intelligence to uncover coordinated adversarial campaigns • Profile threat actor tradecraft and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) • Distinguish legitimate defensive security tasks from active malicious intent • Review Junior Investigators’ casework and provide actionable feedback • Lead calibration sessions to maintain rigorous labeling standards • Use SQL, Python, or investigative tooling to analyze usage telemetry and identify anomalous behavior • Surface emerging abuse trends across large datasets • Author intelligence briefs and enforcement recommendations for the Principal Investigator and client safety leads • Escalate critical threats and zero-day discoveries promptly • Provide rotational escalation coverage, including occasional weekend or holiday support for critical incidents

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in cyber threat intelligence (CTI), incident response (DFIR), digital investigations, offensive security, or technical OSINT • Strong applied knowledge of the MITRE ATT&CK matrix, modern malware/ransomware delivery chains, and common exploitation techniques • Working proficiency in SQL and Python or similar scripting • Experience querying logs, parsing structured data, and identifying anomalous actor behavior • Proven ability to evaluate ambiguous, incomplete evidence and make high-confidence determinations • Ability to articulate technical findings clearly in written case logs • Experience conducting peer reviews, QA, or mentoring junior analysts in a SOC, CIRT, or trust and safety environment • Based in the United States with unrestricted work authorization • Texas residency preferred • Prior military intelligence, law enforcement cyber unit, or government national security operations experience is nice to have • Direct experience analyzing AI misuse, LLM prompt exploitation/jailbreaks, or automated abuse vectors is nice to have • Technical certifications such as GCFA, GCTI, GREM, OSCP, or CySA+ are nice to have • Active or recent U.S. Government Security Clearance is valued, not required • Experience tracking threat actors across dark web and closed criminal forums is nice to have • Willingness to undergo client-directed insider threat screening and specialized background checks if selected

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive industry salaries • Medical, dental, and vision insurance • 401(k) with company match • Paid time off including vacation, sick leave, and holidays • Internal mobility and professional growth opportunities • Inclusive environment and community impact • Reasonable accommodations during the hiring process