Job Description

Technical Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst (Financial Services)

Location: Hybrid / Pretoria, Gauteng

This position is limited to BBBEE candidates due to BEE requirements.

Position Overview:

An exceptional financial services group requires the services of a Technical Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst.

The main purpose of this position is to facilitate predictive and early reactive cyber defence through the analysis or creation of technical and tactical threat intelligence.

Main responsibilities include:

• Collect, analyse, and interpret cyber-threat data from multiple technical information sources.
• Perform malicious software (malware) analysis on artefacts flowing from the incident response process.
• Produce high-quality technical and tactical threat intelligence reports.
• Proactively hunt for cyber-threats.
• Identify, imbed, and support cyber technical threat intelligence tools and technologies.

To be considered for this position, one must have:

Academic requirements:

• A Bachelors degree in Security/Information Technology or an equivalent NQF 7 qualification.
• A Security Certification in one of the following: Certified Incident Handler, Certified Forensic Analyst, Network Forensics Analyst, Offensive Security (OSCP/OSCE) or any other relevant certifications.
• An Ethical Hacking Certification.

Experience Required:

• A minimum of 5 to 8 years relevant Cybersecurity work experience, of which at least 2 years must be as a Cyber Threat Intelligence Expert.
• Sound knowledge of Cyber Threat Intelligence Processes and Tradecraft (e.g., the Cyber Kill Chain and Diamond Model of Intrusion Analysis).
• An understanding of networking (including the OSI Model, TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP).
• Experience working in a Blue Team.
• Knowledge of Intelligence Technologies, including Silo breaker, Anomaly, Maltego, VirusTotal Intelligence, and MISP.
• Knowledge of Threat Intelligence Conventions, including YARA, OpenIOC and STIX frameworks.
• Knowledge of Programming or Scripting Languages such as Python, Perl, PowerShell, and R.

If you meet all the requirements specified above, and interested to further the process, kindly send your detailed CV to Patricia Jacobs at

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