Cyber Threat Intelligence Hunter (Unit 42)

Our Mission At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place. Who We Are In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us! We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes. Job Summary The Team Unit 42: Unit 42 Consulting is Palo Alto Network's security advisory team. Our vision is to create a more secure digital world by providing the highest quality incident response, risk management, and digital forensic services to clients of all sizes. Our team is composed of recognized experts and incident responders with deep technical expertise and experience in investigations, data breach response, digital forensics, and information security. With a highly successful track record of delivering mission-critical cybersecurity solutions, we are experienced in working quickly to provide an effective incident response, attack readiness, and remediation plans with a focus on providing long-term support to improve our clients’ security posture. Job Summary The Cyber Threat Intelligence Hunter will sit within Unit 42 Managed Threat Hunting and support proactive, intelligence-led hunting across customer environments. This role combines hands-on threat hunting with cyber threat intelligence analysis, helping multinational organizations stay one step ahead of adversaries and cyber threats. Key Responsibilities Analyze public and private threat intelligence, Unit 42 research, adversary campaigns, malware activity, infrastructure, indicators, and TTPs. Translate threat intelligence into actionable hunting hypotheses, investigation workflows, hunting queries, and customer-facing findings. Execute existing threat hunting reports and hunting workflows, investigate results, and support timely customer reporting. Investigate scheduled hunt detections and compose clear, professional reports when relevant. Investigate hunting leads based on IOCs, threat intelligence, internal detections, customer telemetry, and emerging adversary behaviors. Monitor the threat landscape and prepare initial context for emerging campaigns, enabling the global team to continue deeper investigation and hunting. Collaborate with threat hunters, detection engineers, incident responders, MDR, and Unit 42 researchers to operationalize intelligence quickly and effectively. Escalate major, unclear, or high-impact security events to the Threat Hunting leadership team when necessary. Provide ongoing feedback on findings, hunting reports, queries, intelligence workflows, and operational processes to support continuous improvement. Qualifications Required Qualifications 4+ years of experience in tactical threat hunting, cyber threat intelligence (CTI), DFIR, or advanced security operations. Strong background in tactical threat intelligence, specifically identifying the discrete traces, artifacts, and behavioral fingerprints left by adversaries across diverse telemetry sources (endpoint, network, cloud, and identity). Experience capturing and modelling incident data to map out intrusions and understand attacker behaviours. Proven ability to develop & deliver verbal & written technical findings of attacker behaviour into clear, high-impact notifications for customers. Experience translating threat intelligence into high-fidelity hunting hypotheses, detection logic, and log-based queries. Preferred Qualifications Experience in an Incident Response or Managed Services environment Proficiency in Python and SQL Familiarity with malware analysis Published security blogs or research that shows a deep understanding of a particular threat Our Commitment We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com. Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship? No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.