Leidos is seeking a talented Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst to join our team to support a federal customer within the customers Security Operations. The Cyber Threat Intel Analyst will need a strong cyber security background with experience with the following:

• Identify, track and investigate high priority threat campaigns, malicious actors with the interest, capability and TTPs (Techniques, Tactics and Procedures).

• A comprehensive understanding, analyzing and tracking the cyber threat landscape, including identifying and analyzing cyber threats actors, APT TTPs and/or activities to enhance cyber security posture of the organization’s IT operating environment. 

Clearance Required: Must have active/current Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.

Basic Qualifications:

• Candidates shall have a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, with 8-12 years of professional experience and at least 5 years in incident detection and response and/or cyber intelligence analysis.
• Maintain and drive the development of new reports of Cyber Threat Intelligence analysis to peers, management, and customer teams for purposes of situational awareness and making threat intelligence actionable.
• Provide support to security operations during incident response and threat hunting activities that includes cyber threat analysis support, research, recommending relevant remediation and mitigation.
• Conduct trending and correlation of various cyber intelligence sources for the purposes of indicator collection, shifts in TTPs, attribution and establishing countermeasures to increase cyber resiliency.
• Deep understanding of Cyber Kill Chain and applicable analytic models such the Diamond Model.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.

Certifications/Skills:

• Must have ONE of the following: GCED, GCIA, GCFA, GPEN, GWAPT, GCFE, GREM, GXPN, GMON, GCIH, CCFP, CCSP, CISSP, CSIH, CHFI, LPT, ECSA, OSCP, OSCE, OSWP, OSEE, EnCE
   
• Previous DOD, IC or Law Enforcement Intelligence or Counter Intelligence Training/Experience.
• Knowledge of Structured Analytic Techniques
• Host-based and network-based forensics related to the identification of advanced cyber threat activities, intrusion detection, incident response, malware analysis, and security content development (e.g., signatures, rules etc.); and cyber threat intelligence.
• Proficiency in one more of the following computer languages Python, Bash, Visual Basic or Powershell in order to support cyber threat detection or reporting.
• Ability to develop scripts to support cyber threat detection that outputs results in a variety of formats, such as VB scripts, Python, C++, HTML, XML or other type most appropriate for the task.