Senior Analyst, Threat Intelligence

When you join Verizon

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife.

What you’ll be doing…

The Network Security Threat Intelligence team is responsible for proactive detection and investigation of threat actor activity within the Verizon network.  Our analysts apply all source intelligence to identify threat activity and work with network and security teams to improve detection capabilities and security controls.  As a member of the Network Threat Intelligence team, you’ll be responsible for collecting and interpreting threat information, providing detailed information for the investigation and detection of threats, and continuously growing your technical skill set in this area.

• Incident Response & Investigation:

  • Conducting threat investigations in Verizon’s most complex and critical network environments

  • Coordinating with multidisciplinary teams across network organization to iteratively improve security controls and detection capabilities

  • Conducting time-sensitive analysis during cyber investigations, including active threat investigation and forensic analysis

• Advanced Data & Network Analysis:

  • Leveraging Verizon’s network telemetry to find indicators of compromise

  • Developing expertise on the Verizon threat landscape using threat intelligence, network telemetry, and operational metrics to clearly communicate the threat landscape

  • Analyzing malicious code, packet capture files, and forensic artifacts

• Threat Intelligence & Strategy:

  • Analyzing log data to detect active threats within the network using knowledge of the current threat landscape, threat actor techniques, and Verizon’s network

  • Identifying gaps in logging capabilities and develop and propose strategies to fill gaps

  • Identifying and propose automated alerts for new and previously unknown threats. Collaborate with teams across the Cyber organization to mitigate risk by testing, deploying, and developing investigative playbook

What we're looking for...

You’ll need to have…

• Bachelor’s Degree in information technology, cybersecurity, computer science or professional equivalent training (i.e. Net+, Sec+, etc) or four or more years of work experience 

• Experience in cybersecurity or information technology

• Experience conducting cybersecurity investigations 

• Basic understanding of network device logs, netflow, and working with large datasets

• Good communication skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Ability to think critically and identify risks.

Even better if you have…

• Three or more years of experience with incident response, security operations, malware analysis, threat hunting, or intelligence operations

• Three or more years of experience with application of data science concepts and techniques to enable advanced threat detection

• Three or more years of experience with long term intelligence gathering projects providing information to joint intelligence initiatives

• Working knowledge of Splunk and Elastic Search

• Working knowledge with Threat Intelligence Platforms

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes working from home and a minimum of three days per week in the office, which will be set by your manager. Employees are responsible for maintaining compliance with hybrid work policies.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Equal Employment Opportunity 

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.

Benefits and Compensation

Our benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and welln