Threat Intelligence Researcher – Cloud

🕒 August 4

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $160k - $220k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🕵️ Threat Intelligence Specialist

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Wiz

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201 - 500 employees

🔒 Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity • Cloud Security

Wiz is a leading cloud security company, providing a comprehensive security platform for safeguarding cloud environments. It offers a variety of solutions designed to protect cloud infrastructure from threats, including threat detection and response, security posture management, and vulnerability prioritization. Their cloud-native platform enables seamless integration across various cloud systems, offering agentless visibility and robust protection for modern cloud computing needs. Trusted by many Fortune 100 companies, Wiz is recognized for its innovative approach, offering a unified security model that integrates development and security operations for enhanced visibility and proactive threat management.

📋 Description

• Identify, analyze, and track advanced state-backed or financially motivated attackers targeting cloud ecosystems • Hunt through diverse data sources to identify malicious campaigns targeting Wiz customers • Use open and closed data to track infrastructure and malware used by advanced actors • Investigate and attribute incidents, campaigns, and threat actors to understand attackers and their motivations • Communicate novel findings to customers and the public

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in security or threat research focused on advanced state-backed actors or sophisticated financially motivated campaigns • Proven track record tracking sophisticated threat actors • Ability to develop novel and durable methods for identifying and tracking threat actors across multiple datasets • Deep expertise in at least one actor-tracking mechanism, such as malware or infrastructure • Experience with large-scale telemetry, infrastructure hunting, query languages, and scripting • Familiarity with malware analysis and YARA • Willingness to take on multiple roles to build actor tracking • Knowledge of attacker targeting of AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, and modern cloud-native architectures • Experience building repeatable and scalable tools for exploiting data sources • Track record of publicly communicating novel and newsworthy findings • Background in incident response, threat intelligence, or threat hunting • Legal right to work in the United States without visa sponsorship

🏖️ Benefits

• Base salary of $160,000–$220,000 USD per year • Bonus • Equity • Benefits • Google benefits • Equal opportunity employment