Threat Intelligence Lead at Canonical

What you'll do in this role

• Build and own Canonical's threat intelligence strategy
• Build and maintain OSINT research environments
• Develop OSINT tradecraft, principals, and techniques
• Identify and track targeted intrusion cyber threats, trends, and new developments by cyber threat actors through analysis of proprietary and open source datasets
• Collaborate across teams to inform on activity of interest
• Coordinate adversary/campaign tracking
• Contribute to the wider threat intelligence community, establishing Canonical as a key contributor and thought leader in the space
• Work with product and engineering teams to explain cybersecurity threats and advise on mitigation strategies
• Work with the OPSEC and IS team to help implement/update security controls prioritising cyber defence
• Identify intelligence gaps and propose new tools and research projects to fill them
• Conduct briefings for executives, internal stakeholders and external customers

The successful Threat Intelligence Lead will be

• An experienced threat intelligence leader (or similar)
• Knowledgeable about the current open source threat landscape and computer networking/infrastructure concepts
• Highly competent with OSINT tools (e.g., Buscador, Trace Labs OSINT VM, OSINT Framework, Maltego, Shodan, social media scraping tools, etc.)
• Able to identify, organise, catalogue, and track adversary tradecraft trends — often with incomplete data
• Experienced using threat intelligence data to influence enterprise architecture or product development decisions
• An excellent communicator with the ability to clearly articulate and tailor technical content to a variety of audiences
• Able to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long