Cyber Threat Intel Lead

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Security Operations Center (SOC) is a U.S. Government program responsible to prevent, identify, contain and eradicate cyber threats to FEMA networks and its regions through monitoring, intrusion detection and protective security services to FEMA information systems including local area networks/wide area networks (LAN/WAN), commercial internet connection, public facing websites, wireless, mobile/cellular, various cloud environments, security devices, servers and workstations.  The FEMA SOC is responsible for the overall security of FEMA Enterprise-wide information systems, and collects, investigates, and reports any suspected and confirmed security violations.

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Cyber Threat Intelligence Lead to establish and lead enterprise-wide cyber threat intelligence operations. This role will be responsible for producing high-confidence intelligence products, leading CTI coordination for FEMA with DHS and other agencies, supporting the SOC and engineering teams and driving strategic intelligence priorities in support of FEMA’s mission.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead FMI’s CTI program, develop and maintain CTI CONOPS, SOPs, prioritizing tailored intelligence collection and dissemination across FEMA and it’s regions.

• Will conduct cyber threat analysis, identifying mitigation and/or remediation courses of action; developing actionable intelligence used to protect organizational IT assets; and trending cyber threat metrics for leadership situational awareness. 

• Responsible for maintaining a comprehensive understanding of the cyber threat landscape, including identifying and analyzing cyber threats actors and/or activities to enhance cybersecurity posture of an the organization’s IT operating environment.

• Identify, track and investigate, and write technical products for dissemination to stakeholders regarding high priority threat campaigns, malicious actors, APTs, emerging threats, etc.

• Bring a comprehensive understanding, analyzing and tracking the cyber threat landscape, including identifying and analyzing cyber threats actors, APT TTPs and/or activities to enhance cybersecurity posture of the organization’s IT operating environment.

• Provide expert threat analysis to the Security Operations Center during incident response and threat intelligence activities that includes cyber threat analysis support, research, recommending relevant remediation and mitigation.

• Conduct trending and correlation of various cyber intelligence sources for the purposes of indicator collection, shifts in TTPs, attribution and establishing countermeasures to increase cyber resiliency

• Oversee and mentor team of CTI analysts

• Collaborate with federal, state, and local CTI stakeholders to ensure actionable information sharing and situational awareness

• Proficient in one more of the following computer languages Python, Bash, Visual Basic or PowerShell in order to support cyber threat detection or reporting.

 Will be responsible for:

• Producing high quality technical and non-technical products, briefings, whitepapers, etc., with minimal supervision and emphasis on effective/accurate reporting on product topics.

• Maintain situational awareness of emerging threats, zero days, vulnerabilities and other threats against customer systems, networks, and assets.

• Process technical data from various sources and fuse the data with intelligence reporting to improve the security posture of the customer, as well as manage Threat Intelligence tools security tools such as Analyst1 and Silobreaker.

• Collaborate with federal, state, and local CTI stakeholders to ensure actionable information sharing and situational awareness

Basic Qualifications:

• The candidate must currently possess a Top Secret Clearance Eligibility with the ability to obtain a TS/SCI.  In addition to clearance requirement, all FEMA personnel must have a current or be able to favorably pass a FEMA EOD

• BS in IT related field or higher and 8-12 years’ experience in an information technology field with a minimum of 5 years of experience as a Tier II senior cyber security analyst performing intelligence analysis, collection management, and technical analysis. 

• 5+ years of recent experience with host-based and network-based security monitoring solutions and to include security content recommendation or development (host based and network signatures).

• 2 years recent experience with host-based and network-based security monitoring using cybersecurity capabilities.

• Must be experienced developing scripts to support cyber