Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst

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The Verizon Threat Research Advisory Team within Verizon's Professional Services is seeking a Threat Intelligence Analyst who will play a critical role in protecting Verizon's customers from current and future cyber threats. This position will support our customer's overall cyber threat analysis efforts.

• Apply scientific and technical knowledge to solving complex threat intelligence problems and produce strategic, operational, and tactical-level written assessments.

• Briefing organizations such as Fortune 500 companies on their findings and having enough understanding to answer tough questions by C-Level executives in the organization.

• Utilize understanding of the hacker mindset and methods used to carry out their objectives.

• Work independently and be self-motivated.

• Use experience and knowledge to identify threats that pose a significant risk to their customer's organization, and recognize when there is no threat or risk at all.

• Generate, collect, and enrich focused threat intelligence.

• Contribute significantly to wider team investigations and research.

• Subject Matter Expert (SME) for cyber threat actors TTPs.

What we're looking for...

• Experience analyzing computer and network related data and logs to uncover threats and IOC's.

• Ability to work effectively in a remote distributed team environment.

• Experience tracking nation-state threat actors and other cyber criminals.

• Working knowledge of IP networking and services.

• Foundational knowledge of operating system concepts as it relates to the network stack (client & server).

You'll need to have:

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.

• Four or more years of relevant work experience.

• Experience researching, investigating and tracking threat actors and threat groups in the cybercrime ecosystem.

• Willingness to travel up to 25%.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Bachelor Degree (Computer Science, Cyber Security, Electronics, Investigations).

• Experience with intelligence analysis, including analytic tradecraft.

• Proven threat hunting experience (PCAP diagnoses).

• Data science and analytics experience including aggregating, manipulating, examining, mining, exporting, reporting, and visualizing threat intelligence and incident data.

• Investigative experience and mindset.

• Intelligence, Counterintelligence and/or Cyber Investigations and Operations experience.

• Experience as a cyber threat intel analyst or special agent for Cyber Command, Homeland Security, NCIS, OSI, FBI or equivalent cyber investigations agency or public company as an incident responder..

• Ability to continually look to improve current processes, think outside the box and constantly evaluate better and more efficiently.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every "even better" qualification listed above.

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.

Our benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and wellness benefit options including: medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance. We also offer a matched 401(k) savings plan, stock incentive programs, up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year, parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition assistance, plus other incentives, we've got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. Depending on the role, employees have the opportunity to receive compensation in the form of premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, allowances, etc. Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service. For part-timers, your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances.