Threat Hunting Specialist

Threat Hunting Specialist
Viseu
Viseu, Viseu District, Portugal

Threat Hunter - Long Term Contract

Location: Porto/Lisbon (Hybrid working)

Type: Freelance

Working with one of my leading telco clients who are seeking a Threat Hunter to design, implement, and execute a full threat hunting program. This is a rare opportunity to create the methodology, processes, and tooling for a function that will play a critical role in the company’s security posture. You will work across two main areas. Improving the internal platforms and current systems and find new solutions to blind spots. Secondly you will go outside of the business proactively to find new threats and feedback with improvements for the processes.

Deliverables:

• Develop a complete threat hunting plan and process from scratch.
• Lead internal threat hunting across existing platforms to uncover gaps, blind spots, and hidden risks.
• Drive proactive threat hunting, researching external threat activity impacting global telcos and feeding insights back into continuous improvement.
• Execute the processes you design—hands-on analysis, hunting, and detection refinement.
• Support analysts during critical incidents, including reverse engineering and deep technical investigation.

Requirements:

• Solid technical foundation in security operations and threat detection.
• Experience with EDR tools (Crowd
  Strike a plus), SIEM platforms (preferably Splunk), and Tenable for vulnerability insight.
• Strong Python scripting skills for automation and hunt development.
• Experience in reverse engineering, forensic analysis, and working with advanced threat intelligence tooling.
• A proactive, investigative mindset and the ability to translate findings into actionable improvements.

This is a business critical position with interview slots booked for next week. If you are a good match and interested please apply immediately!