Threat Hunter Chief

BOOST LLC is a dynamic management consulting firm that offers an array of government-compliant back-office solutions to support our teaming partners within the GovCon space. Our consultants are experts in the areas of Accounting, Contracts, Human Resources, Recruiting & Sourcing, and Strategic Pricing and our passion is to guide and propel our partners towards success within this competitive sector.

BOOST is partnering with a cleared small business that provides mission-critical, AI-driven cyber defense and reverse engineering solutions for U.S. Government clients to hire a Threat Hunter Chief. This opportunity is 100% onsite located in the Northern Virginia area.

Position Summary:

As the Threat Hunter Chief, you will lead and oversee advanced network-hunt operations, driving a high-performing analyst team to detect, validate, and respond to previously unknown threats across multiple secure enclaves. You will architect sensor-coverage strategies, threat-simulation campaigns, and innovative tradecraft to deliver decisive situational awareness for mission owners. With a mission-first, people-always approach and zero tolerance for mission failure, you will shape the organization’s ability to outpace adversaries and protect critical national security networks at the highest standards of performance.

Responsibilities:

• Direct daily hunt-team operations, prioritizing targets based on intelligence gaps, threat trends, and mission risk.

• Design, maintain, and evolve advanced hunt playbooks, detection logic, and custom analytics leveraging tools like Zeek, Suricata, and proprietary PCAP parsers.

• Oversee red-team and threat-simulation exercises to measure detection efficacy, publishing after-action reports and corrective recommendations.

• Validate sensor telemetry, coverage metrics, and data fidelity; identify collection gaps and recommend new sensor deployment or tuning enhancements.

• Develop and deliver weekly threat-intelligence digests, executive-level briefings, and tactical recommendations to senior leadership.

• Mentor and develop analysts on advanced packet analysis, protocol dissection, and adversary emulation methods.

• Coordinate with incident-response teams, AI/ML engineers, and reverse-engineering experts to integrate and enrich detections for comprehensive hunt outcomes.

• Provide continuous feedback to engineering and architecture teams on sensor performance, coverage posture, and mission-aligned improvements.

Required Qualifications:

• 12+ years of experience in network exploitation, advanced network hunt, or cyber operations supporting classified or mission-critical environments.

• Expert proficiency with network packet inspection, NIDS frameworks, and advanced traffic-analysis tradecraft.

• Demonstrated success leading multidisciplinary teams and briefing senior stakeholders under high-pressure, high-tempo operational conditions.

• Certifications such as GREM, GNFA, or other advanced hands-on technical certifications.

• Proven commitment to mission-first, people-always leadership with zero tolerance for mission failure.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related field.

• CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional), CISM (Certified Information Security Manager), CompTIA Security+, CompTIA Network+.

• Background in offensive security, exploit development, or adversary simulation.

• Experience integrating AI/ML-driven detection frameworks with traditional NIDS or custom analytics.

• Proficiency in scripting (Python, Go) for building automated hunt tools and custom analytics.

• Familiarity with hunting in cloud and hybrid-network architectures.

Clearance Requirement:

• Active TS/SCI with Poly

Salary Range:

• $310K-$330K (Salary commensurate with experience)

BOOST is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.