Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst

Key Responsibilities

• Threat Intelligence: Produce tactical and operational threat intelligence, tracking threat actors, campaigns, tools, techniques and the broader financial services sector.
• Assessment of Emerging Threats: Rapidly triaging emerging threats and newly disclosed vulnerabilities to assess relevance, exposure, and potential impact to the organization.
• Vulnerability Prioritization: Analyze and prioritize CVEs using a risk-based approach, considering factors such as exploitability, threat actor activity, and business context to inform remediation urgency.
• Remediation Coordination: Work closely with asset and system owners to coordinate the remediation of prioritized vulnerabilities, tracking progress and helping resolve blockers to closure.
• Reporting and Communication: Convert technical findings into concise, actionable intelligence products and briefings tailored to both technical teams and non-technical stakeholders.
• Enrichment and Context: Enrich intelligence with indicators of compromise (IOCs), tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), and contextual analysis to support detection, response, and defensive planning.
• Collaboration: Partner with security operations, incident response, vulnerability management, and various operational functions to ensure intelligence is operationalized effectively.

Skillset Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of experience in threat intelligence, security operations, or a closely related cyber security discipline.
• Demonstrate expertise in tactical and operational threat intelligence, including threat actor tracking and analysis of TTPs and IOCs.
• Solid understanding of vulnerability management concepts and the ability to prioritize CVEs using a risk-based approach.
• Experience in coordinating vulnerability remediation with asset or system owners and comfortable driving cross-team outcomes.
• Strong analytical, written, and verbal communication skills, with the ability to distil complex technical information for varied audiences.
• A genuine willingness and eagerness to learn new platforms, tools, and intelligence feeds on the job.
• A good team player, agile, fast learner, and able to adapt to changes.