Specialist, Cybersecurity Operations (Hybrid Rahway, NJ)

Job Description

As a part of our Companys Cyber Fusion Center (CFC) the Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) team collaborates with external and internal stakeholders across international technical centers to maintain our Companys proactive cybersecurity posture. The CTI team enables our Cyber Fusion Center to maintain an intelligence and threat informed approach to cybersecurity. The team liaises with our Company business partners to propose ideas and innovative solutions that reduce risk and enable new organizational capabilities.

The CTI Platform Specialist is responsible for supporting daily operations including threat intelligence threat hunting and vulnerability research. Additionally the CTI Platform Specialist is responsible for supporting maintaining CTI platforms and driving innovative solutions leveraging cutting-edge technology to reduce risk to the organization.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Evaluate tools methodologies and best practices to effectively understand the tactics techniques and procedures (TTPs) utilized by cyber threat actors.

• Perform continuous research and collection of information based on our Companys Intelligence Requirement Framework from open source vendor collection and internal tooling to identify threat intel and cyber risks.

• Monitor and action open source and vendor data for potential domain abuse third party cyber incidents credential/data leakage dark web and social media malicious indicators and executive impersonation.

• Conduct basic threat hunting within Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems and within specific tools for malicious indicators and threat actor TTPs.

• Research vulnerabilities and manage vulnerability response and remediation processes in our Company environment.

• Support development of visualizations for external stakeholders.

• Support data management and development of technical solutions.

• Provide briefings to ITRMS stakeholders and ITRMS LT.

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders for information sharing.

• Participate frequently as team representative during internal daily calls.

• Support operational incidents via cyber threat analysis hunting and vulnerability management.

Required Education: High School Diploma required.

Required Experience:

• Minimum of 2 years of relevant experience.

• Experience with cyberthreat intelligence vulnerability management or malicious threat hunting.

Preferred Experience

• Solid technical knowledge of one or more areas cybersecurity areas such as incident response and digital forensics security engineering malware analysis or security operations.

• Experience working with Threat Intelligence Platform and Collaboration tools.

• Experience working with extremely large data sets using tools and scripting languages within Excel Python CrowdStrike Logscale Microsoft Sentinel (KQL) and Power BI.

• Experience working with LLM models and prompt engineering.

• Independently delivers complex tasks applying critical thinking and care for detail.

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