Intelligence Sourcing Analyst
Recorded Future
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Posted:
August 19, 2023
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Onsite
About the position
The job overview for the Intelligence Sourcing Analyst role is to be responsible for the core intelligence within the Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud. This includes identifying strategic data expansion opportunities, pursuing partnerships to obtain that data, and working with data engineering teams to maximize the value of the data. The role involves evaluating data gaps, identifying potential solutions, connecting with data vendors/partners, technically evaluating data samples, negotiating contracts, and writing detailed requirements for data ingestion. The job distribution is expected to be 10% defining strategy, 15% identifying data sources, 50% evaluating new data sources, and 25% working with data ingestion teams. The ideal candidate should have experience working with threat intelligence data, technical skills in APIs and data analysis, project management skills, and a problem-solving mindset.
Responsibilities
- Evaluate data gaps within the Recorded Future platform by working with Product Management, Threat Research, and others
- Identify potential solutions including internally sourced data and commercial solutions from partners
- Connect with data vendors / partners to obtain data samples
- Technically evaluate the data samples
- Negotiate contracts with partners where required
- Write detailed requirements for data engineering teams to ingest the data
- Monitor for successful data quality and continuously improve value
- Define strategy for new data acquisition (10%)
- Identify data sources (15%)
- Evaluate new data sources (50%)
- Work with data ingestion teams on detailed requirements (25%)
- Work with developers and customers in detail
- Hands-on technical skills working with APIs, data, and integrations
- Experience writing python (or similar) scripts to pull data from an API, parse it, and analyze it
- Organization, project management, and professional presentation skills
- Love of problem solving and motivation to deliver results
- Travel requirements of approximately 10% to customers, industry events, and R&D office in Sweden.
Requirements
- Experience working with threat intelligence data
- Bonus for time as an analyst, threat hunting professional, red team, or similar background
- Education: BS or MS in Cyber Security, Computer Science or related engineering field
- Proven success working in detail with developers and customers
- Hands-on technical skills working with APIs, data, and integrations
- Experience writing python (or similar) scripts to pull data from an API, parse it, and analyze it
- Organization, project management, and professional presentation skills
- Love of problem solving
- Motivated to move fast and deliver results
- Travel requirements ~10% to customers, industry events, R&D office in Sweden
Benefits
- Competitive salary and compensation package
- Opportunity to work for the world's most advanced and largest intelligence company
- Rapid year-over-year growth
- Chance to work with a diverse team of over 1,000 employees
- Access to over 1 million data sources including deep and dark web, open web, and technical feeds
- Opportunity to evaluate and fill data gaps within the Recorded Future platform
- Possibility to connect with data vendors and partners to obtain data samples
- Technical evaluation of data samples
- Negotiation of contracts with partners
- Writing detailed requirements for data engineering teams
- Continuous monitoring and improvement of data quality
- Defining strategy for new data acquisition
- Identifying and evaluating new data sources
- Collaboration with data ingestion teams
- Travel opportunities to customers, industry events, and R&D office in Sweden
- Inclusion and respect for diverse backgrounds and lifestyles
- Equal opportunity and affirmative action employer