Hybrid Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst

Alliant Credit Union; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 108,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual performance bonus

Work from home up to 3 days a week

Paid parental leave

Employee discount programs

Time off including paid personal and s

11 paid holidays

Job summary

Alliant Credit Union is seeking a Threat Intelligence Analyst to operationalize threat intelligence and support threat-informed defense activities within a hybrid, full-time role in Chicago. You will triage and analyze intelligence, enhance TIP, and produce actionable recommendations for cybersecurity, fraud, and risk management functions.

The ideal candidate has a 4-year degree in CS/Cybersecurity or related field, security certifications preferred, and experience in threat intelligence, threat

Qualifications

• Minimum - 4 Year Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology or Related
• Minimum - 0 years
• Preferred - 2 of Cyber Threat Intelligence, Offensive Security, Threat Hunting, Detection Engineering or related

Responsibilities

• Collect, analyze, and triage tactical and operational cyber threat intelligence from internal, open-source, government, industry, and commercial intelligence sources.
• Operate and continuously enhance the Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) to ensure threat intelligence is relevant, actionable, and effectively operationalized across cybersecurity, fraud, and risk management functions.
• Enrich and contextualize indicators of compromise (IOCs) for use in threat detection and response workflows.
• Monitor emerging threats, vulnerabilities, attack techniques, and threat actor activity relevant to Alliant and the financial sector.
• Develop and maintain profiles of malware families and threat actors most likely to impact Alliant, including their motives, intent, and capabilities.
• Map operational intelligence to MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques to inform detection engineering, threat hunting, purple team exercises, and security control assessments.
• Contribute to finished intelligence products, supporting both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Support adversary emulation and purple team campaigns by researching threat actors, malware families, attack techniques, and intelligence requirements used to construct realistic testing scenarios.
• Contribute threat intelligence that informs campaign planning, ATT&CK mapping, scenario development, and security control validation activities.
• Support adversary emulation activities through intelligence preparation, operational research, evidence collection, and after-action analysis.
• Support SOC investigations by identifying relevant indicators and adversary behaviors.
• Support Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) activities by analyzing cyber threats effecting vendors, service providers, and supply chain partners and assessing their potential impact.
• Support the Fraud Operations team through intelligence on cyber-enabled fraud threats, including account takeover, credential theft, phishing, business email compromise (BEC), synthetic identity fraud, social engineering, and payment fraud.
• Protect Alliant, it's members, and it's brand by monitoring and responding to online impersonation, counterfeiting, infringement other malicious activities that may harm the organization.
• Support tabletop exercises (TTX) through threat research, scenario development support, participant coordination, and after-action documentation.

Job description

Alliant Credit Union is seeking a Threat Intelligence Analyst to operationalize threat intelligence and support threat-informed defense activities within a hybrid, full-time role in Chicago. You will triage and analyze intelligence, enhance TIP, and produce actionable recommendations for cybersecurity, fraud, and risk management functions.

The ideal candidate has a 4-year degree in CS/Cybersecurity or related field, security certifications preferred, and experience in threat intelligence, threat