What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Cyber Analyst position at Verizon?
When you join Verizon
Verizon is one of the world's leading providers of technology and communications services, transforming the way we connect across the globe. We're a diverse network of people driven by our shared ambition to shape a better future. Here, we have the ability to learn and grow at the speed of technology, and the space to create within every role. Together, we are moving the world forward - and you can too. Dream it. Build it. Do it here.
What you'll be doing...
The Verizon Threat Research Advisory Team within Verizon's Professional Services is seeking Threat Intelligence Hunters/Analysts (Analysts) 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.
- Applying 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 have enough understanding to answer tough questions by C-Level executives in the organization.
- Utilizing understanding of the hacker mindset and methods used to carry out their objectives.
- Working independently and be self-motivated.
- Using experience and knowledge in identifying threats that pose a significant risk to their customer's organization to identify when there is no threat or risk at all.
- Generating, collecting, and enriching focused threat intelligence.
- Contributing significantly to wider team investigations and research.
- Acting as a subject Matter Expert (SME) for cyber threat actors TTPs.
Where you'll be working...
In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.
What we're looking for...
You'll need to have:
- Bachelor's degree four or more years of work experience.
- Four or more years of relevant work experience.
- Experience in researching, investigating and tracking threat actors and threat groups in the cybercrime ecosystem.
- Experience in analyzing computer and network related data and logs to uncover threats and IOC's.
- Experience in tracking nation-state threat actors and other cyber criminals.
- Willingness to travel up to approximately 25% of the time.
Even better if you have one or more of the following:
- Ability to work effectively in a remote distributed team environment.
- Experience in intelligence analysis, including analytic tradecraft.
- Experience in investigative and ability to have an investigative mindset.
- Experience in Intelligence, Counterintelligence and/or Cyber Investigations and Operations.
- Experience in cyber threat intel analyst or special agent for Cyber Command, Homeland Security, NCIS, OSI, FBI.
- Experience in cyber investigations agency or public company as an incident responder, penetration tester, malware analyst or midlevel to senior SOC/CERT analyst.
- Ability to continually look to improve current processes.
- Experience in modern hacking techniques, vulnerability disclosures, data breach incidents, and security analysis techniques.
- Ability to design, draft, and publish high-quality technical and business-level reports, studies, whitepapers, and blogs.
- Knowledge of IP networking and services.
- Knowledge of operating system concepts as it relates to the network stack (client & server).
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.
Equal Employment Opportunity
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