Senior Threat Intel Analyst

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Hiring Requirements / Constraints

This is a remote role within the U.S.

The successful applicant may be required to work with US-only data or on US Government environments and therefore must be a U.S. Person (i.e. U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent resident, asylee, or refugee). This position may also perform work that the U.S. government has specified can only be performed by a U.S. Citizen on U.S. soil.

Meet The Team

We are the Intelligence Operations team within the Intrusion Detection & Response organization at Cisco. Our team is responsible for delivering actionable cyber threat intelligence support to internal security teams across the company and the broader intelligence community. Our goal is to help protect Cisco and its distributed Business Units by distilling the cyber threat landscape in a way that improves our security posture, mitigates risk, and reduces uncertainty.

We are looking for an experienced Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst or Threat Hunter that can help us provide timely and actionable intelligence across Cisco to identify, protect, detect, and respond to threats impacting our environment.

If you enjoy researching and analyzing cyber threats to help security teams make informed decisions and reduce risk, then we would love to talk to you.

Your Impact

The Analyst plays a critical role in driving the collection and analysis of complex threat data to produce actionable intelligence that informs security decisions at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels. This role involves establishing and nurturing cross-functional partnerships, driving advanced threat detection initiatives, and providing expert support during incident investigations to protect Cisco's operations from sophisticated adversaries. In addition to influencing Cisco's security posture and playing a critical role in driving complex enterprise-wide initiatives, the senior analyst is expected to demonstrate technical leadership by mentoring junior team members, fostering their professional growth, and cultivating a collaborative, high-performing team environment. This role offers the opportunity to continuously adapt to the evolving threat landscape using cutting-edge intelligence techniques and collaboration across diverse teams.

The applicant would play a critical role in intelligence production and collection efforts, develop strategic partnerships, author authoritative reports, and deliver executive-level briefings, all while ensuring operational excellence through rigorous documentation and process governance. As a senior team member, the analyst is also responsible for coaching and mentoring colleagues, promoting knowledge sharing, and driving continuous improvement within the team. This senior technical role offers a dynamic environment that brings together technical proficiency, strategic impact, and innovative approaches to cybersecurity in support of a global technology enterprise.

• Drive Advanced Intelligence Collection and Analysis: Orchestrate and assure the day-to-day collection, processing, and synthesis of data from a broad range of sources, ensuring the production of impactful, actionable intelligence products that meet the strategic needs of Cisco leadership.

• Support Response: provide actionable intelligence support to internal defensive operations by fusing and exploiting information collected during investigations, building a common understanding of threat activities and attribution.

• Develop Strategic Partnerships: Establish and nurture cross-organizational partnerships with security teams and key stakeholders across Cisco to deliver comprehensive, data-driven insights into both existing and emerging threats.

• Generate Threat Intelligence Reporting: Produce and oversee the creation of threat intelligence reports and products that guide defensive operations and decision-making to enhance Cisco's overall security posture.

• Maintain Expert Threat Landscape Awareness: Continuously monitor and interpret the evolving threat landscape, focusing on relevant adversaries likely to disrupt Cisco's operations.

• Provide Incident Intelligence Support: Serve as a catalyst in incident intelligence support by offering expert analysis throughout challenging internal investigations, ensuring a clear and shared perspective on threat actor behaviors, attribution, and response strategies.

• Provide Guidance and Mentorship: Guide and mentor junior analysts by sharing expertise, fostering professional development, and promoting best practices in threat intelligence collection, analysis, and reporting to build a high-performing team.

• Champion Team Growth and Knowledge Sharing: Play a pivotal role in advancing initiatives that foster a collaborative learning environment, promoting continuous skill development, knowledge sharing, and career growth within the threat intelligence team.

• Drive Complex Security Initiatives: Play a pivotal role in coordinating multifaceted initiatives with business partners to enhance threat visibility, intelligence sharing, and security operations effectiveness across the organization.

• Executive-Level Metrics and Briefings: Oversee the capture, analysis, and presentation of key threat intelligence metrics to support operational efficacy and to ensure clarity and strategic relevance.

• Govern Documentation and Process Integrity: Ensure all threat intelligence documentation, workflows, and processes are rigorously maintained, accurate, and continuously improved to support operational excellence and compliance.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of experience in a technical cyber security role.

• Minimum 4 years of experience in a Threat Intelligence or Threat Hunting role.

• Understanding of the cyber threat landscape, including relevant business risks, threats, and adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).

• Understanding of the Intelligence cycle.

• Familiarity with a variety of defensive methodologies and frameworks.

Preferred Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience analyzing threats, collating indicators, and incorporating intelligence into organizational security posture.

• Experience tracking and clustering cyber threats and campaigns.

• Experience with Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIPs) to manage indicators and organize, cluster, and enrich intelligence.

• Proven ability to develop and maintain stakeholder and/or customer relationships.

• Experience developing and briefing reports or delivering products to stakeholders and/or customers.

• Experience driving complex security initiatives and collaborating across teams to improve visibility, intelligence sharing, and operational effectiveness.

• Demonstrated leadership and mentorship skills, including guiding junior analysts, fostering professional development, and promoting best practices within the threat intelligence team.

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we're revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. We've been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint. Simply put - we power the future.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you'll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

At Cisco, we're revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. We've been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you'll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco's plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco's policies:

• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees

• 1 paid day off for employee's birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco

• Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees

• Exempt employees participate in Cisco's flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)

• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours ofunused sick timecarried forwardfrom one calendar yearto the next

• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members

• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco's policies.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

• .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

• 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

• 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and

• Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area:

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco's sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.