Senior Security Threat Intelligence Investigator

At F5 we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create secure and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation.

Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers and their customers better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.

What youll do

• Evaluate existing methodologies and develop recommendations for improved processes tools analytics and infrastructure
• Evaluate current and emerging tools and best-practices for tracking advanced persistent threats; tools techniques and procedures (TTPs) of attackers motivations industry and attacker trends.
• Perform strategic tactical and operational research and analysis of adversarial cyber threats and the geopolitical context they operate in.
• Partner with the Security Operations Center (SOC) and Investigators in support of security legal and HR issues.
• Correlate all-source intelligence to develop deeper understandings of tracked threat activity.
• Present tactical and strategic intelligence about threat groups the methodologies they use and the motivations behind their activity.
• Work with Product groups to determine their intelligence needs and requirements.
• Convey both verbally and in writing the importance of findings for a variety of audiences.
• Prepare and deliver briefings and reports to a variety of audiences as needed .
• Ability to work proactively with little direct oversight and take ownership to ensure success.

What youll bring

• 8 years of experience in an analytical role (network forensics analyst intelligence threat analyst or security engineer/ consultant).
• Exceptional oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to present to a variety of internal audiences including senior executives.
• Excellent organizational and leadership skills.
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal abilities.
• Proven track record of successfully managing and executing on short term and long-term projects.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to prioritize and execute in a methodical and disciplined manner.
• Ability to set and manage expectations with senior stakeholders and team members.
• Ability to express complex concepts including technical ones verbally graphically and in writing.

Bonus Points

• Masters or other professional degree preferred.
• Experience correlating across very large and diverse datasets (T-SQL & NoSQL systems)
• Experience of development involving extraction/manipulation/summarization of network data
• Experience working closely with threat intelligence analysts to understand their workflow and analytic problems and turning those into large-scale analytics
• Experience working within a diverse organization to gain support for your ideas
• Reverse-engineering & binary analysis
• Strong Windows internals - especially in the areas of event management and networking (sockets/RPC/named pipes)
• Working competency with Linux and MacOS internals ASEPs and memory management.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to prioritize and execute in a methodical and disciplined manner.
• Ability to set and manage expectations with senior stakeholders and team members.
• Ability to express complex concepts including technical ones verbally graphically and in writing.

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The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However the description may not be all-inclusive and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

F5 maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge skills experience geographic locations and market conditions as well as to reflect F5s differing products industries and lines of business. The pay range referenced is as of the time of the job posting and is subject to change.

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