Cyber Threat Intel Analyst
Location: Washington D.C. / Hybrid 
Clearance: must be eligible for SBA Public Trust
Full Time

Company Description
Our client is in search of a Cyber Threat Intelligence analyst possessing robust writing, research, and analysis skills to bolster their Cyber Threat Intelligence team. This role is dedicated to supporting a prominent cybersecurity team within a crucial Federal Agency. The CTI analyst will be responsible for researching cyber threats potentially affecting the customer, aiding in the collection of indicators of compromise, aggregating open-source intelligence, monitoring social media, and crafting comprehensive CTI reports and analyses. These deliverables will be disseminated from CTI to the agency, Security Operations Center, and agency leadership.

The responsibilities for this role include:

• Conduct Cyber Open-Source Intelligence (C-OSINT) AND Social Media Intelligence (SMI/SOCMINT) exploitation, link and network analysis investigations for high intel threat clients
• Parse and fuse information to provide stakeholders with relevant knowledge of indicators and behaviors to monitor
• Develop regular threat intelligence briefs based on general threat actor concerns across the agency, business units, and those specific to our client and deliver briefs to senior executives
• Work with the team to track campaigns actively or historically targeting our client
• Contribute data to actionable intelligence sharing reports as needed
• Relay cyber threat information to the Security Operations Center and Vulnerability Management Team to help prevent the exploitation of threats in the future.
• Perform research and analysis to support security investigations.
• Write multiple CTI reports on a weekly basis
• Develop reporting and presentations.
• Perform writing, editing and quality assurance review of security team documentation.
• Work with security team subject matter experts to translate technical data and information into documentation for non-technical audiences.
• Develop and maintain CTI Standard Operating Procedures and manuals.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree (or work experience equivalent)
  • Degree with a focus in Communications, English Writing, IT related fields or Policy is preferred.
• 3+ years work experience, preferably in CTI or related cybersecurity or intelligence role
• 2+ years of technical delivery, service delivery, client management, and/or managed services experience
• General understanding of IT and cyber security concepts
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Delivery of well written and researched fact-based communications
• Experience developing writing and editing technical research and analysis, white papers, or in-depth technical articles.
• Ability to successfully interface and establish rapport with clients (internal and external)
• Ability to work well with a team
• Strong familiarity with social media sites and mediums
• Self-motivator possessing a high sense of urgency and a high level of integrity.
• Strong customer service skills to deliver quality results in a demanding environment.
• Able to work well under pressure and within short time constraints.
• Excellent documentation, communication and interpersonal skills. Attention to detail is key.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to efficiently prioritize and organize competing work demands with little oversight.
• Ability to manage and balance own time among multiple tasks
• Ability to operate independently and with little direction
• Writing samples may be requested