Threat Hunter and Response Specialist

5 days ago


Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Rapid7 Full time

Rapid7's Detection & Response Services team offers the opportunity to work with clients to improve their incident response programs, develop methods for identifying and analyzing breaches, and respond to active incidents. Our Incident Responders pride themselves on their ability to think critically, adapt to constantly changing attack methodologies, and deliver top-notch Incident Response services.

About the Role

Rapid7 Threat Hunters and Response Specialists split their time between reactive breach response cases and proactive customer engagements. They help to impact the direction of Rapid7's Products and Services. In this role, you will:

  • Lead and support incident response engagements, from detection and containment through forensic analysis and remediation, while partnering with Incident Responders, MDR Analysts, and Customer Advisors.
  • Support proactive incident response service engagements, including compromise assessments and incident simulations.
  • Utilize Rapid7 technologies like InsightIDR and Velociraptor to deliver positive customer outcomes.
  • Deliver verbal and written updates and forensic reports to customers.
  • Assist in capturing and deploying knowledge of latest attacker methodologies with members of our Managed Threat Operations team and as part of Rapid7's Emergent Threat Response program.
  • Collaborate with peers and cross-team partners on process enhancements and documentation.
  • Participate in pre-sales conversations with prospective customers, Sales enablement sessions, webinars, and other business development opportunities.
  • Advise and mentor members of our MDR SOC and Managed Threat Operations teams.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation (after-hours/weekend), as required, to address incidents and maintain continuous coverage.

The Skills You'll Bring

We're looking for individuals with 1-2 years of hands-on, technical incident response experience and 2-3 years of security analyst experience, preferably in a SOC or MSSP setting. You should have strong technical experience in three of the five areas below: Forensics (Windows / Mac / Linux), Network traffic analysis, Log Review, Malware triage, and Cloud technologies, including AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Compensation

$120,000 - $180,000 per year, depending on experience. We offer competitive salaries and benefits to support your career growth and well-being.



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