Senior Analyst, Threat Intelligence

Role Overview

• Conducting threat investigations in Verizon’s most complex and critical network environments
• Coordinating with multidisciplinary teams across network organization to iteratively improve security controls and detection capabilities
• Conducting time-sensitive analysis during cyber investigations, including active threat investigation and forensic analysis
• Leveraging Verizon’s network telemetry to find indicators of compromise
• Developing expertise on the Verizon threat landscape using threat intelligence, network telemetry, and operational metrics to clearly communicate the threat landscape
• Analyzing malicious code, packet capture files, and forensic artifacts
• Analyzing log data to detect active threats within the network using knowledge of the current threat landscape, threat actor techniques, and Verizon’s network
• Identifying gaps in logging capabilities and develop and propose strategies to fill gaps
• Identifying and propose automated alerts for new and previously unknown threats
• Collaborate with teams across the Cyber organization to mitigate risk by testing, deploying, and developing investigative playbooks

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in information technology, cybersecurity, computer science or professional equivalent training (i.e. Net+, Sec+, etc) or four or more years of work experience
• Experience in cybersecurity or information technology
• Experience conducting cybersecurity investigations
• Basic understanding of network device logs, netflow, and working with large datasets
• Good communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to think critically and identify risks
• Three or more years of experience with incident response, security operations, malware analysis, threat hunting, or intelligence operations (even better if you have)
• Three or more years of experience with application of data science concepts and techniques to enable advanced threat detection (even better if you have)
• Three or more years of experience with long term intelligence gathering projects providing information to joint intelligence initiatives (even better if you have)
• Working knowledge of Splunk and Elastic Search (even better if you have)
• Working knowledge with Threat Intelligence Platforms (even better if you have)

Tech Stack

• Cyber Security
• Splunk

Benefits

• 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
• matched 401(k) savings plan
• up to 8 company paid holidays per year
• up to 6 personal days per year
• paid parental leave
• adoption assistance
• tuition assistance
• other incentives
• up to 15 days of vacation per year