At Optiv, we’re on a mission to help our clients make their businesses more secure. We’re one of the fastest growing companies in a truly essential industry.

In your role at Optiv, you’ll be inspired by a team of the brightest business and technical minds in cyber security. We are passionate champions for our clients, and know from experience that the best solutions for our clients’ needs come from working hard together. As part of our team, your voice matters, and you will do important work that has impact, on people, businesses and nations. Our industry and our company move fast, and you can be sure that you will always have room to learn and grow. We’re proud of our team and the important work we do to build confidence for a more connected world.

The Global Threat Intelligence Center Associate Analyst will be on the front lines of tracking industry aligned news and events for further analysis and reporting. Simultaneously, the analyst will be responsible for the production of daily and weekly intelligence reporting and initiating further research and analysis to Senior Analysts.

• Identify and prioritize active threat activity from identified intelligence and news sources.
• Conduct deep-dive analysis of global cyber events as they relate to geopolitical currents and differing industry verticals.
• Regularly develop and produce written intelligence reports.
• Maintain a state of current cyber threat actor techniques, tactics, and procedures and have the ability to discern new patterns of activity.
• Maintain analytic repeatable processes and assist in continuous improvement of those processes.
• Contribute to briefing materials and read books for team briefings on global cyber events and counter-threat concerns.
• This position will work physically in Optiv India Security Operations Center.

Qualifications

• Five or more years of professional experience in the Threat Intelligence or Information Security field or demonstration of technical excellence commensurate with this experience.
• Demonstrated experience contesting cyber threat actors and/or mitigating vulnerabilities exploited by threat actors.
• Excellent time management, reporting, and communication skills.
• Ability to generate analytic reports and countermeasure recommendations
• Understanding of modern cybersecurity instrumentation to include threat and vulnerability tools.
• Outstanding time management and organizational skills required.
• Ability to fully utilize MS Office products required.
• Ability to read, write, and converse in English.

Must Have:

• Ability to work within and support a Team environment
• Shift flexibility, including the ability to provide on-call support when needed
• Ability to act as a part-time on-call escalation point for security incidents
• High School Diploma or equivalent experience

Desired Qualifications:

• Security certifications (GCIA, CISSP, CCSE, CISA, HBSS, NSA, CEH, Cisco Security, Security +, OSCP or other security certifications).

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.