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Senior Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist

Whateverittakescom
Washington, DC Full Time
POSTED ON 1/19/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/18/2025

WITCOM has an immediate, funded opportunity for a Senior Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist to join our mission critical customer in Washington, DC. Qualified candidates must possess a minimum Top Secret clearance or be able to obtain a Public Trust Level 6c.

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The overall objective of this position is to provide analytic support in the areas of dependency and interdependency analysis, analysis of cascading impacts, and cyber / physical risks to critical infrastructure. The Senior Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist will provide proactive and reactive end-to-end threat intelligence services to help protect external facing and internal based computing assets, data, and Government clients. The position will also help support key, high profile cyber security related activities and projects, including support to the Government agencies incident management program.

  • Research, analyze, interpret, evaluate and integrate complex data from multiple intelligence sources
  • Possess a strong understanding of intrustion sets
  • Perform Cyber Threat Analysis; must be able to identify threats and develop threat vulnerability assessments
  • Provide actionable intelligence for enterprise risk reduction and remediation by partnering with key groups in identifying and driving risk remediation approaches to current and emerging threats
  • Exhibit a strong critical thinking and writing skill ability; prepare extensive assessments, documents, and disseminates information through reports and briefs to technical and non-technical audiences
  • Develops complex analytical approaches to problems and situations for which data is incomplete, controversial, or no precedent exists
  • Develop and lead briefs to senior leadership regarding critical best practices / capabilities pertaining to cyber issues
  • Develop innovative approaches to analyze and validate analytical conclusions
  • Maintain and update databases, systems, and other mechanisms for sharing relevant intelligence information to support ongoing and projected projects

Desired Skills

  • Previous experience with threat intelligence tools and platforms
  • Previous experience in cyber intelligence or related disciplines
  • Experience using Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tolls such as Splunk, ArcSight, etc.
  • Industry certification such as Network , Security , Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst (GCIA), GIAC Certified Enterprise Defender (GCED), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), or other related courses
  • Required Experience

  • Bachelor’s Degree, or Masters Degree, equivalent experience within related field, 8 years of cyber threat intelligence experience performing threat monitoring and assessment,
  • Knowledge of network and server based attacks and mitigation methods
  • Experience summarizing complex information security concepts and ogoing threat events for management consumption
  • An understanding of commonly used targeted attack techniques, tactics and procedures (TTPs)
  • Excellent verbal and written communications skills including forensics reporting and investigation summaries
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