Threat Intelligence Analyst

Summary

Join UpGuard's Threat Scanning Team as a Threat Analyst and become an integral part of a collaborative team dedicated to identifying, analyzing, and mitigating emerging cyber threats. You will leverage existing OSINT tools and contribute to the development of new ones, directly enhancing UpGuard's threat intelligence capabilities. Analyze data leaks to identify impacted customers, contribute to threat intelligence feeds by researching and integrating new findings, and build new product and vulnerability detections. Conduct extensive open-source intelligence (OSINT) research across the open, deep, and dark web to identify risks and vulnerabilities. This role requires expertise in OSINT methodologies, a solid understanding of software development, and excellent communication skills. UpGuard offers a competitive salary, generous benefits, and a fully remote work environment.

Requirements

• Expertise in Open Source Intelligence: Strong understanding of OSINT methodologies with a focus on the open, deep, and dark web
• Understanding of Software Development: Solid grasp of software development processes to deconstruct and interpret vulnerability disclosures effectively
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Excellent communication skills to work with the Customer Success & Support teams, explaining capabilities and resolving customer issues
• Independence and Initiative: A self-starter attitude with the ability to take ownership of tasks and drive them to completion independently or collaboratively
• Technical Skills in Scripting: Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, with the ability to learn and adapt to new programming languages as needed

Responsibilities

• Analyze Data Leaks: Process and assess incoming data feeds to identify whether customers have been impacted by data leaks
• Contribute to Threat Intelligence Feeds: Enhance UpGuard’s proprietary threat intelligence feeds by researching and integrating new findings
• Develop Vulnerability Detections: Build new product and vulnerability detections by reverse-engineering applications, analyzing vulnerability disclosures, and creating robust detection methodologies
• Conduct Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and Security Research: Focus heavily on identifying, analyzing, and interpreting open-source intelligence across the open, deep, and dark web to identify risks and vulnerabilities

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven Expertise: Demonstrated experience through OSINT-focused tools or projects you’ve built or contributed to
• Background in Security Research or Development: Prior experience in security research, penetration testing, or software development
• Ability to Communicate Across Audiences: The capability to bridge technical insights with non-technical stakeholders to ensure alignment and understanding

Benefits

• Monthly Lifestyle subsidy: use this for financial, physical, and mental wellbeing
• WFH set-up allowance: to ensure you have the right environment to work in, we will help you get set up within your first 3 months at UpGuard
• Generous Compensation: The base salary for this role is $120,000. Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience
• $1,500 USD annual Learning & Development allowance: to support your career development all team members will be able to expense development opportunities against this allowance
• Generous Annual Leave/PTO allowances: time to recharge your batteries
• 18 weeks paid Parental Leave: irrespective of parenting role
• Personal Leave allowance: this includes sick & carer’s leave
• Fully remote working environment: while we have physical offices in Sydney & Hobart, we do not mandate compulsory attendance
• Top-spec hardware: all team members will be provided with top-spec laptops for their roles
• Personal device security & online privacy protection subsidy: UpGuard provides team members with a paid subscription to personal device security & online privacy protection platform
• Generative AI subsidy: UpGuard provides paid subscriptions for all team members to access generative AI tools to support their work