Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Flashpoint is the pioneering leader in threat data and intelligence. They are seeking a Senior Intelligence Analyst II who will lead high-impact analytical efforts and support strategic clients in addressing complex security challenges.
Responsibilities
- Conduct comprehensive analysis across OSINT and Deep & Dark Web sources, with a focus on novel, publicly exposed data, to develop intelligence on threats to national security
- Run proactive, covert engagement with threat actors across underground environments and chat services, employing advanced managed-attribution tradecraft to safely elicit critical intelligence and identify emerging risks
- Apply an offensive-security lens to exposed-data investigations, assessing how adversaries could operationalize what you find and where the real risk lives
- Proactively monitor and collect high-signal data from illicit marketplaces, forums, and encrypted chat platforms, using specialized keywords and patterns within Flashpoint tools to drive investigations
- Synthesize complex, raw data into high-quality analytic judgments, assessing credibility, deducing client relevance, and supporting essential client deliverables and intelligence requirements
- Safely navigate virtual environments, articulate the security safeguards each task requires, and comply with Flashpoint org-wide and Intel team policies, including Rules of Engagement
- Create finished intelligence products and peer-review the work of others for analytic accuracy and conformity with Flashpoint report-writing standards
- Brief clients and communities directly, including in-person engagements, and propose new, relevant content for external publication
- Act as an internal subject-matter expert, documenting team processes and mentoring new and junior analysts
Skills
- Have a proven track record of delivering actionable intelligence in support of high-impact national security missions, with the agility to rapidly pivot focus across dynamic global regions as intelligence requirements evolve
- Have advanced Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and Deep & Dark Web (DDW) research experience, and have engaged threat actors in online communities while maintaining credible online personas under managed attribution
- Have worked with novel and publicly exposed datasets and can recognize how an adversary can combine offensive cyber capabilities and exposed data to create real-world risk
- Bring an offensive-security perspective to your analysis, drawn from hands-on red teaming, penetration testing, or equivalent work, and use it to anticipate how adversaries operate
- Have a strong command of Linux and the command line, and an intermediate- to advanced-level ability to script and automate the manipulation and formatting of large datasets
- Possess an advanced understanding of network and telecommunications technologies and topologies
- Have produced accurate investigations and key judgments for finished intelligence reports, and presented complex findings to wide audiences, including community calls, executive-level briefings, and direct client engagements
- Advanced OSINT tradecraft and methodology, including Deep & Dark Web research and managed-attribution operations
- A strong command of Linux and the command line, plus scripting ability to automate work against large datasets
- Demonstrated offensive-security capability, such as OSCP or equivalent hands-on red teaming and penetration testing experience, and the mindset to think like an adversary
- A track record as an intelligence analyst, ideally supporting the public sector or national security mission space
- Strong writing skills, with experience producing finished intelligence products, and strong communication and presentation skills for both technical and executive audiences
- Willingness to travel periodically for in-person client engagements and briefings
- TS/SCI clearance is preferred
- SANS/GIAC is a plus
Benefits
- Gym reimbursements
- Expensed lunches
- Cool cultural initiatives
- Inclusive employee events
- Learning and development opportunities
- Guidance through formalized career paths; whether that be towards being a great manager, being a great individual contributor, or a lateral move to gain breadth of knowledge and experience
- Regular schedule of performance reviews
- Regular one-on-ones with your manager
- Company-funded virtual events: book clubs, happy hours, committees, DIBE discussion group, Donut mixers, local team member meetups and much more
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