💼 Full-Time Position

Senior Threat Hunting Specialist

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Fortinet
📍 Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
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Location
Burnaby, Canada
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Posted
March 19, 2026
Type
Full-Time
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Full-Time Opportunity: This is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive package and real career growth potential.

Job Description

We are hiring a Senior Threat Hunting Specialist who combines deep threat-hunting expertise with practical purple-team simulation skills to support an AI-driven detection program. The ideal candidate understands attacker TTPs in depth, can design hypothesis-driven hunts from telemetry, and can script concise attack simulations to generate realistic logs and telemetry in a test environment for validating detections. This role focuses on attacker thinking, preparing and conducting simulations, threat detection SIEM query design and SOC detection validation. Moreover, this role will contribute to features design for ML-driven detection capabilities.

As a senior Threat Hunting Specialist, your responsibilities will include: 

  • Perform hypothesis-driven threat hunting projects and translate attacker TTPs into measurable telemetry signals (IOAs/IOCs) suitable for ML feature design. 
  • Collaborate with ML engineers and data scientists to define, propose, and vali...