Cyber Threat Intelligence Manager

Salt is partnering with a cybersecurity company offering advanced solutions like threat intelligence, incident response, and managed security services. Focused on building digital trust, this Cybersecurity specialised consultancy helps organisations stay secure and resilient against evolving cyber threats.

As an urgent opening, they are looking for a Cyber Threat Intelligence Manager who will be leading a team of highly skilled Cyber Threat Intelligence Analysts to ensure that cyber threat intelligence is properly collected, analysed, and disseminated.

Functional Experience:

• 10+ years’ experience working in a Cyber Threat intelligence, incident response, cyber hunt, or other technical information security positions

Threat Intelligence:

• Leads a team of threat intelligence analyst to collect, analyse and distribute relevant and actionable threat intelligence to clients
• Responsible for the quality and timeliness of the team’s reports, briefs, presentations, findings and recommendations including executive level threat reporting
• Responsible for measuring and reporting on CTI value and customer satisfaction
• Leads the development, management, optimization and continuously improvement of processes to enhance the overall cyber threat intelligence function
• Leads and contributes practically in key projects
• Preparation of intelligence products, including high-quality reports, assessments, briefings, recommendations, and findings

• Establishes and maintains relationships with public and private intelligence community members

Leadership/Supervisory Experience:

• 5+ years of demonstrable management experience within Cyber Threat Intelligence
• Experience in training and providing mentorship to members of the team.
• Performance management and the ability to conduct performance evaluations

Skills:

• Strong understanding of threat models, including security kill chain and diamond model
• Experience with using threat intelligence analytics software
• Have in-depth analytical and monitoring skills, team cooperation and ability to work in a high-pressure environment.
• Expertise in understanding and applying the intelligence lifecycle.
• In-depth awareness and use of open source intelligence-type tools and methods.
• Expertise in collection methods, intelligence production and analysis, analytic writing, argument mapping, and structured analytic techniques.
• Strong knowledge of threat intelligence platforms.
• Strong analytic tradecraft is necessary, as is the ability to defend analysis in the face of countervailing opinion.
• Formal intelligence analysis training and/or intelligence application experience.
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of cyber-attack vectors, detection techniques, malware analysis, cybercrime networks and methodologies.
• Experience working in large scale security operations especially large corporations, military or government organizations.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Systems or a related discipline, or equivalent experience
• Scripting (Shell, Python, R, etc.)
• Big Data Analysis experience

Certifications:

• CISSP, CISM, or similar Information Security certification is preferred
• Desired: Malware analysis or threat intelligence related certification such as GCIH, GREM, GCTI
• Operating System Knowledge: Windows, Linux/Unix, and Mac/OSX.

Salt is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.