Threat Intelligence Analyst

Key Responsibilities

Threat Discovery & Analysis

• Proactively hunt and analyze emerging cyber threats, including APTs, ransomware, zero-days, and supply-chain attacks.
• Monitor geopolitical developments and state-sponsored activities to assess cyber risk implications.
• Conduct in-depth threat analysis, including attribution, threat actor profiling, TTPs (MITRE ATT&CK), IOCs, and potential organizational impact.
• Correlate intelligence from OSINT, dark web, internal telemetry, and commercial threat feeds.

Reporting & Communication

• Produce high-quality intelligence reports, executive briefings, and risk assessments for diverse stakeholders.
• Translate complex threat intelligence into clear, business-relevant insights and mitigation strategies.
• Maintain and enhance threat intelligence repositories, dashboards, and playbooks.

Telescope Platform Development Support

• Partner with engineering and product teams as a subject matter expert to define platform requirements.
• Contribute real-world use cases to guide data ingestion, analytics, visualization, and automation.
• Participate in agile development processes, including sprint planning and user story refinement.
• Help design and implement detection logic, enrichment processes, and intelligence-sharing capabilities.

Continuous Improvement

• Stay updated on evolving threat actors, attack techniques, and global geopolitical trends.
• Support internal threat hunting and red/blue team exercises.
• Collaborate with SOC, incident response, vulnerability management, and risk teams to operationalize intelligence.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, International Relations, Political Science, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 3–5 years of experience in threat intelligence, cyber intelligence, or geopolitical risk analysis.
• Strong understanding of the cyber threat landscape, attack lifecycle, MITRE ATT&CK framework, and nation-state/financially motivated threat actors.
• Demonstrated ability to translate geopolitical developments into cyber risk insights.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience producing formal intelligence reports.
• Experience collaborating with engineering or product teams to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Hands-on experience with threat intelligence platforms, SIEM tools, OSINT frameworks, and data analysis tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Relevant certifications (GCTI, CTIA, CISSP, or equivalent).
• Experience with Python, SQL, or scripting for threat data analysis.
• Familiarity with APIs, data pipelines, and machine learning in cybersecurity.
• Experience contributing to or building threat intelligence platforms.
• Published research, conference speaking, or contributions to open-source intelligence projects.