Job Description
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*****SR1
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Cyber Security Threat Hunter – Remote n
Our client is urgently looking for an experienced Cyber Security Threat Hunter to join their team on a permanent basis.
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Please note, the role is 100% remote, but a hybrid/on-site working arrangement can be made if you prefer this.
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You will be well versed in Threat Hunting within the Cyber Security arena, including Ethical Hacking (CEH is advantageous).
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You will be rewarded with an excellent salary, as well as a brilliant benefits package including bonus (up to 15%), remote working, private healthcare, medicash, income protection, death in service x4 salary, cycle to work scheme and many, many more perks!
Cyber Security Threat Hunter – Key Skills: n
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Incident response
processes/methodologies
and SIEM operations
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Security tooling, reporting, and delivering work in a structured/project-based way
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IT/networking/security
fundamentals including operating systems, networking and digital forensics
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Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 cloud technologies
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Threat intelligence-driven hunting: Demonstrated use of threat intelligence to plan hunts, enrich detections, and block malicious infrastructure
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Windows and identity fundamentals:



Robust understanding of Windows security concepts and Microsoft identity (Active Directory and Entra ID), including authentication and token flows
(Kerberos/NTLM/OAuth),
device join states, MFA/Conditional Access concepts, and common identity attack paths
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Endpoint telemetry literacy: Ability to interpret process trees and command lines, PowerShell activity, scheduled tasks/services, registry and file changes, WMI usage, persistence techniques, and LOLBins and to connect these artifacts to Defender alerts and timelines
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Microsoft 365 and cloud security foundations: Familiarity with email security and message flow (Exchange Online), and investigation pivots across
SharePoint/OneDrive/Teams
activity and Azure logs where relevant to XDR incidents
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Detection engineering mindset: Experience translating hunts and red team findings into practical detections and improvements (signal selection, tuning,
suppression/thresholding,
entity mapping, documentation, and operational handoff)
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KQL depth and query performance: Comfortable using joins/unions, parsing, time-windowing, summarisation, Essential baselining, and performance-aware query patterns for large datasets
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Cyber Security Threat Hunter – Remote n
Proactive Appointments Limited operates as an employment agency and employment business and is an equal opportunities organisation
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📌 Cyber Security Threat Hunter - 11832Sr1 (Canberra)
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📍 Canberra