Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst

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As a Senior Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst, you will play a key role in protecting the company's digital infrastructure by researching, analysing, and communicating the latest cyber threats facing the organisation. You'll evaluate global risks, provide actionable intelligence to stakeholders, and support the development of a robust threat-informed defence strategy. You'll also work collaboratively across teams to enhance our threat intelligence capabilities, inform vulnerability management, and strengthen incident response readiness.

Your role will involve maintaining threat actor profiles, managing intelligence feeds, supporting compliance, and shaping threat intelligence processes to align with our risk reduction initiatives. You'll help ensure it is well-prepared to address evolving cyber threats while contributing to the organisation's long-term security maturity.

What you'll be doing as a Senior Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst:

Cyber Threat Assessment: Support and lead cyber threat assessments and provide recommendations to technical, managerial, and executive stakeholders.
Incident Response Support: Act as part of the incident response team where appropriate and deliver cyber intelligence insights during security events.
Threat Research & Intelligence: Research emerging threats, threat actors, TTPs and IoCs to support threat hunting, detection engineering and signature development.
Intelligence Feeds & Dashboards: Evaluate technical intelligence feeds, ensure quality of data, and build reporting dashboards for key stakeholders.
Vulnerability Management Collaboration: Work closely with the vulnerability management team to align intelligence with known exposures.
Threat Actor Profiling: Maintain in-depth profiles of adversaries, detailing motivations, objectives, and behavioural patterns.
External Intelligence Sharing: Establish relationships with credible external partners for mutual threat intelligence exchange.
Intelligence Gap Analysis: Identify and address intelligence coverage gaps and contribute to strategic security capability development.
Compliance & Documentation: Support compliance with GDPR, NIS, ISO 27001, and document threat intelligence processes and outputs.
Strategic Capability Growth: Contribute to long-term improvement of threat and vulnerability management (TVM) capabilities and the broader cyber security roadmap.Base Location: Hybrid - Flexible working with travel to Reading offices as required - 2 days a week.
Working Pattern: Full Time / 36 Hours per week

What you should bring to the role:

Essential Experience:

Minimum of 3 years in a cyber threat intelligence environment
Strong knowledge of the MITRE ATT&CK framework
Experience researching threat actor TTPs and evaluating geopolitical, commercial, and environmental threat impacts
Experience remediating cyber risks in complex and evolving digital environments
Ability to prepare and present detailed threat reports and dashboards to senior stakeholdersEssential Technical Skills & Qualifications:

Cyber security certification(s) such as Certified Threat Intelligence Analyst (CTIA)
Hands-on experience with threat modelling, OSINT tools, and vulnerability assessment
Deep understanding of adversary behaviours and threat landscape trends
Strong communication skills with the ability to convey technical risk clearly to non-technical stakeholdersDesirable Skills & Qualifications:

Experience working within the water industry or similar large infrastructure environments
Familiarity with legacy system vulnerabilities and OT risk management
Experience managing technical intelligence feeds and platform integration
Additional certifications such as OSCP, OSWP, CVA, or CHECK Team Member/Leader (CTM/CTL)
Previous experience contributing to cyber risk discussions with business stakeholdersWhat's in it for you?

Annual Leave - 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays).
Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family's health and wellbeing, and your finances - from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.

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