Principal Threat Hunter (Cybersecurity)

TL;DR

Principal Threat Hunter (Cybersecurity): Designing and executing proactive threat hunts across cloud and SaaS environments with an accent on adversary behavior and threat intelligence. Focus on leading complex incident response investigations, maturing intelligence reporting, and leveraging AI tooling to scale detection capabilities.

Location: Remote (US)

Company

Mitiga provides a panoramic forensic system for cloud, SaaS, and AI environments to ensure zero-impact breach mitigation.

What you will do

• Design and execute proactive threat hunts across AWS, Azure, GCP, Okta, and M365 using ATT&CK-mapped behavior.
• Operate a threat intelligence reporting function to generate hunt leads and customer-facing narratives.
• Lead complex incident response investigations and act as Incident Commander during US business hours.
• Triage security alerts and identify detection gaps for the engineering team.
• Implement automation and AI tools to scale operational impact and improve workflows.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in security operations focused on threat hunting and intelligence.
• Proven track record of building or contributing to structured threat hunt programs.
• Experience leading independent incident response investigations.
• Working knowledge of cloud and SaaS environments (AWS, Azure, GCP, Okta, M365).
• Hands-on experience with automation or AI tools in security operations.
• Must be based in the United States.

Nice to have

• Exposure to detection engineering or tooling development.
• Prior managed services (MSSP) experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive benefits package including equity.
• Fully covered health insurance (medical, dental, vision) for the employee.
• 401K plan with company match.
• Unlimited PTO.