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# Senior Cybersecurity Threat Hunter III

- **Company:** Invictus Inc.
- **Location:** Colorado Springs, CO, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Software Documentation, Identity and Access Management, Security Information and Event Management, Mitre Att&ck, Cyber Threat Analysis, Cybercrime
- **Published:** September 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://diversityjobs.com/main/sendform/8/8/28176/1/18225445?backUrl=%2Fcareer%2F18225445%2FSenior-Cybersecurity-Threat-Hunter-Iii-Colorado-Colorado-Springs

## About the Role

Clearance: TS/SCI with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph, * Bachelor's degree from an accredited institute in a technical discipline applicable to the position; an additional 4 years of may be substituted in lieu of a degree

 * Minimum six (6) years of relevant experience in addition to education level
 * Significant hands-on experience conducting threat hunting, advanced cyber analysis, or adversary-focused investigations
 * Strong knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK, adversary TTPs, threat intelligence application, and network/host/identity security telemetry
 * Experience developing hunt hypotheses and converting analytical findings into detection or defensive improvements
 * Experience mentoring analysts or leading complex analytical efforts
 * Must possess current DoD 8570 IAT II or IAM II certification
 * Experience working in a DoD or IC environment
 * Current active TS/SCI clearance, with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph

## Description

* Lead complex, hypothesis-driven threat hunts across multiple enterprise data sources and enclaves to identify sophisticated or previously undetected adversary activity
 * Proactively analyze security telemetry to identify indicators of compromise, anomalous behavior, and adversary activity that has not met an incident threshold or has evaded automated security controls
 * Assess and correlate data from multiple sources, including network, endpoint, identity, SIEM, threat intelligence, vulnerability, and other available security data
 * Document hunt activity, findings, evidence, and recommended follow-on actions in authorized systems and initiate or support incident-response processes when malicious activity is identified
 * Provide relevant findings and trends for SOC operational reporting, significant-activity reporting, and defensive awareness
 * Develop and prioritize hunt campaigns based on threat intelligence, mission risk, adversary TTPs, detection coverage, incident lessons learned, and environmental changes
 * Perform advanced behavioral analysis and identify patterns indicative of persistence, credential abuse, lateral movement, command and control, collection, or other adversary activity
 * Serve as an escalation point for junior threat analysts and provide technical guidance on hunt methodology, analytical pivots, and evidence validation
 * Translate successful hunt findings into actionable requirements for detection engineering, watch operations, security engineering, and incident response
 * Develop reusable hunt playbooks, queries, analytic methods, documentation standards, and training materials
 * Mentor junior personnel and support exercises, knowledge sharing, and assessment of threat-analysis proficiency