Threat Intelligence Team Leader

Vodafone Group; Newbury; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Vodafone is seeking a Cyber Threat Intelligence Lead to enhance its Cyber Security strategy. This pivotal role involves leading the threat intelligence team, shaping operational strategies, and cultivating partnerships to effectively manage cyber threats. The chosen candidate will contribute to securing Vodafone's global infrastructure and lead efforts in threat mitigation and incident response.

Benefits

Annual leave: 28 days + bank holidays

Charity days: 5 days/year

Maternity leave: 52 weeks with pay

Private pension scheme with matching

Access to private medical and dental

Qualifications

• Practical experience in cyber threat intelligence field.
• Professional experience in cyber security, incident response, or information security.
• Strong analytical skills to assess risks.

Responsibilities

• Lead Vodafone's cyber threat intelligence and threat hunting functions.
• Shape global Cyber Security strategy and operations.
• Drive partnerships and research to mitigate threats.

Skills

Cyber threat intelligence

Incident response

Risk assessment

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical skills

Education

Degree in Cyber Security or related field

Job description

Join Us

At Vodafone, we’re not just shaping the future of connectivity for our customers – we’re shaping the future for everyone who joins our team. When you work with us, you’re part of a global mission to connect people, solve complex challenges, and create a sustainable and more inclusive world. If you want to grow your career whilst finding the perfect balance between work and life, Vodafone offers the opportunities to help you belong and make a real impact.

What you’ll do

Vodafone Cyber Security’s role is to enable a secure connected future for our customers and society. We believe that we can inspire trust and confidence in our customers by enabling secure connectivity. Our purpose is to proactively protect Vodafone from security threats and reduce risk across Vodafone’s global footprint. This role is pivotal in how we contribute the security community and society through collaboration, sharing and learning and protect our Critical National Infrastructure in line with Government regulations.

This role is accountable for leading Vodafone’s cyber threat intelligence (strategic, operational, and tactical), and threat hunting functions ; additionally, the role holder will be responsible for research, innovation and advise on evolving tactics, techniques and procedures used by threat actors, in order to craft and lead cyber hunts across Vodafone’s assets, infrastructures and services, internally and externally. Lastly, working at the heart of Cyber Defence, the role holder will lead and influence on how security research is consumed, reviewed and then used to drive threat hunting across Vodafone. Through proactive and effective research, threat hunting and actionable intelligence, we can mitigate cyber threats, drive strategic actions and feed and support incident response.

The role holder will provide leadership and drive insight that is used to shape and inform global Cyber Security strategy, operations and tactical response. This insight is vital across the various markets and company in shaping discussions with Board and Executive committee members, Enterprise customers, media & journalists, regulators, and our workforce.

The key purpose of this role is to:

• Be Vodafone’s cyber threat intelligence leader and subject matter expert. Shape the implementation of threat-led cyber security decision making.
• Use accumulated experience, training and judgement to lead a team of cyber intelligence, threat hunt specialists. Specifically, you will:
  • Lead and evolve the strategy to drive the focus of the research conducted by the cyber threat hunting team, working across Vodafone.
  • Drive a team that focuses on partnerships and information sharing; provides strategic, tactical and operational direction to research and find threats, feeds information into the cyber defence lifecycle, produces and disseminates strategic and actional threat intelligence.
  • Think like an adversary in order to disrupt them – leverage tactical, technical and legal capabilities to mitigate threat.
  • Align, support and drive the right team to characterise suspicious binaries and be able to identify traits, command and control information, etc to develop network and host-based IOCs.
  • Prioritise interaction and assistance to other investigative teams within Vodafone on time sensitive, critical investigations.
  • Support Incident Management/CSOC teams with intelligence and threat actors monitoring during on going incidents and in feeding early warning impacting Vodafone
  • Provide contextual information to Vodafone’s Threat Intelligence team as well as Global and local entities for strategic and/or tactical briefings on threats as needed.

• Be an active member of the Global Cyber Security leadership community, providing insight, driving proactive mitigation and influencing security strategy.

Who you are

• Practical experience in the cyber threat intelligence field. Able to demonstrate the creation of strategic cyber threat landscapes, operational intelligence, and tactical remediation of cyber threats.
• Professional experience in cyber security, incident response, or information security.
• Practical experience of utilising cyber intelligence to improve incident detection and response.
• Creating strong working relationships, and engaging effectively, across a broad range of internal and external stakeholders. Building and maintaining trusted strategic level intelligence relationships.
• Communicating concise summaries of complex technical scenarios/information across diverse and senior stakeholder groups. Knowing how much and when to share.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to assess risks and develop effective threat mitigation and response strategies.
• Creating coaching and learning environments. Knowing when to offer support to others and when to take personal accountability.
• Knowledge of telecommunications infrastructure and related technology. (desirable).
• Change management, agile and continuous improvement experience. (desirable).
• Ability to become DV security cleared (desirable)

Not a perfect fit?

Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about empowering people and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to still apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another opportunity.

What's in it for you

Yearly bonus: 10%

Annual leave: 28 days + bank holidays + the opportunity to buy/sell/carry over 5 days/year

Charity days: 5 days/year

Maternity leave: 52 weeks: the first 13 weeks are fully paid, followed by 26 weeks of half pay

Private pension: You can contribute up to 5% of your basic pay with 2:1 matching from Vodafone up to 10%.

Access to: private medical, private dental, free health assessments, share save scheme

Additional discounts: Vodafone retail, gym, cinema, cycle to work, season ticket loan

Who we are

We are a leading international Telco, serving millions of customers. At Vodafone, we believe that connectivity is a force for good. If we use it for the things that really matter, it can improve people's lives and the world around us. Through our technology we empower people, connecting everyone regardless of who they are or where they live and we protect the planet, whilst helping our customers do the same.

Belonging at Vodafone isn't a concept; it's lived, breathed, and cultivated through everything we do. You'll be part of a global and diverse community, with many different minds, abilities, backgrounds and cultures. ;We're committed to increase diversity, ensure equal representation, and make Vodafone a place everyone feels safe, valued and included.

If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, for example, extended time or breaks in between online assessments, please refer to https://careers.vodafone.com/application-adjustments/ for guidance.

Together we can.