Threat Intel & Incident Response Engineer

Meta; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta in London is hiring a threat intelligence investigator to proactively respond to cyber threats and track actor groups targeting Meta. You will work with cross-functional stakeholders to improve security posture and identify gaps in detections through intelligence-led research.

The role emphasizes intelligence-driven hunting, collaboration with incident responders, and development of countermeasures. Ideal candidates have 3+ years in threat intel, a CS/InfoSec degree, and hands-on experience

Qualifications

• 3+ years threat intelligence experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or relevant field.
• Familiarity with campaign tracking techniques and ability to convert tracking results to long term countermeasures.
• Familiarity with threat modeling framework, such as Diamond Model and/or MITRE ATT&CK framework.
• Experience intelligence-driven hunting to spot suspicious activities in the network and identify potential risks.
• Proven track record of managing and executing on short term and long term projects.
• Ability to work with a team spanning multiple locations/time zones.
• Ability to prioritize and execute tasks with minimal direction or oversight.
• Ability to think critically and qualify assessments with solid communications skills.
• Coding or scripting experience in one or more scripting languages such as Python or PHP

Responsibilities

• Track threat clusters posing threats to Meta's infrastructure and employees, and identify, develop and implement countermeasures on our corporate network
• Investigate, mitigate, and forecast emerging technical trends and communicate effectively with actionable suggestions to different types of audiences
• Work closely with incident responders to provide useful and timely intelligence to enrich ongoing investigations
• Improve the tooling of threat cluster tracking and intelligence data integration to existing systems
• Engage constructively in cross-functional projects to improve the security posture of Meta's infrastructure, such as red team operations, surface detection coverage expansion and vulnerability management discussions

Skills

Threat intelligence

Python

PHP

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field

Tools

YARA

Snort

Job description

Meta in London is hiring a threat intelligence investigator to proactively respond to cyber threats and track actor groups targeting Meta. You will work with cross-functional stakeholders to improve security posture and identify gaps in detections through intelligence-led research.

The role emphasizes intelligence-driven hunting, collaboration with incident responders, and development of countermeasures. Ideal candidates have 3+ years in threat intel, a CS/InfoSec degree, and hands-on experience