About the Team

The USDS FUSE Intelligence program is an all-hazards team that develops products and services with action-based outcomes to reduce and identify risk to Tik Tok USDS. As a Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst, the candidate will be part of a multi-disciplinary cyber threat intelligence team managing the triage, escalation, and reporting of threats against our US business and users that emanate from multiple sources.

The candidate will effectively fuse their knowledge of the general threat landscape, the Tik Tok USDS business, and cyber threat intelligence tradecraft to lead in a team that's generating data driven, action-oriented intelligence for stakeholders. The candidate will possess strong skills in research and investigative techniques to develop tailored cyber threat intelligence products and to guide others on their creation. This role will require close collaboration with internal Cyber Threat Intelligence, Financial Crime, Payment, Converged Risk, Legal, other USDS security teams, and various business departments.

The candidate must also demonstrate strong leadership, intelligence writing and communication skills, contribute to cross-functional teams on a global scale, engage in response actions across various security disciplines, excel in a fast-paced and ambiguous work environment, and share pertinent information as needed to support the company's critical business, market strategy, and operational infrastructure requirements.

Additionally, as the Cyber Threat Intelligence Lead, the candidate must be able to effectively utilize and monitor a variety of tools including SIEM, case management, premium intelligence, OSINT, and social media/ dark web intelligence sources to perform alert review, triage and escalations. The candidate should be able to enhance processes by obtaining a high level of proficiency with collection platforms, tuning alerts, and automating tasks. The candidate must also be able to create and develop threat intelligence reports which outline findings and risk to business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement a roadmap for continuing development of CTI capabilities including a tooling/technology ecosystem supporting enterprise and on-platform threat analysis
• Mentor CTI analysts focused on diverse threat intelligence collection and analytic tasks including Deep/Dark Web, malware analysis, vulnerability intelligence, strategic risk assessment, threat modeling, threat hunting/red team support, SOC support, detection engineering, and on-platform investigations.
• Develop and implement analytic playbooks and workflows focused on the curation and enrichment of internal and external intelligence sources; maintain and tune data flows within a Threat Intelligence Platform and/or other analytic tooling including SIEM.
• Support and expand a cross-functional intelligence consumer base that includes SOC, Incident Response, Threat Hunting, Detection Engineering, Red Team, Financial Crimes/Fraud team, and Tik Tok product/engineering teams through the delivery of tailored intelligence analytic products and solutions.
• Develop and implement automations to enhance intelligence collection and processing
• Identify and further develop current intelligence sources and reporting processes; manage acquisition and evaluation of premium intelligence sources and delivery of metrics on intelligence value (ROI) derived from tool and intelligence investment.
• Bolster and expand CTI investigative and analytic resources that can be applied to on-platform security challenges including fraud, attempted user account compromises, and other violative activities.
• Align CTI intelligence resources to FUSE interdisciplinary intelligence reporting, including cyber threat intelligence, converged risk, protective intelligence/threat management, criminal intelligence, and influence operations.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Deep understanding of CTI team operations in conjunction with a SOC, Incident Response team, Red Team, Threat Hunting, Threat Detection, or other core CTI stakeholders.
• Technical knowledge sufficient to support analysis and investigation of complex threats to include network operations, cloud security principles, large data set manipulation, SQL querying, and basic malware analysis.
• Firm grasp of CTI analytic methodologies, tooling, and approaches to conducting threat actor analysis, TTP assessments, and intelligence contributions to detection engineering processes.
• Experience authoring intelligence products, a clear grasp of the intelligence lifecycle, and ability to integrate intelligence into a diverse range of security and enterprise workflows.

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills along with teamwork and collaboration abilities on global and multi-functional teams with different intelligence source groups
• Experience creating and disseminating reports to multi-level audiences in a technical environment
• Knowledge of cyber intelligence data sources and platforms while demonstrating time management and prioritization skills
• Highly motivated to contribute and grow within a complex area of emerging importance in an enterprise environment

Additional Information

This role requires the ability to work with and support systems designed to protect data and information. As such, this role will be subject to strict national security-related screening.