Lead Cyber Threat Intelligence & Detection Architect

State Employees' Credit Union; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

State Employees' Credit Union seeks a Senior Cyber Intelligence Analyst to own intelligence-driven detection and exposure management. You will set the bar for Splunk work, mentor analysts, and brief leadership with defensible analytic calls.

You will lead threat hunting, vulnerability prioritization, and CTEM efforts while coordinating with CISO leadership and industry partners to strengthen detections and risk assessments.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in cybersecurity with at least 4 years in threat intelligence, detection engineering, or threat hunting.
• Expert hands-on Splunk skills: SPL, Splunk Enterprise Security, correlation searches, CIM, and search optimization.
• Experience building detection programs or coverage strategies, not just individual detections.
• Deep knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK, structured analytic techniques, and analytic standards.
• Ability translating attacker tradecraft into telemetry and search logic.
• Strong briefing and executive-facing communication skills.
• Demonstrated mentoring ability to raise the technical bar for a team.

Responsibilities

• Lead threat intelligence and analysis.
• Own the intelligence requirements process and evaluation of feeds.
• Lead analysis of threat actors, campaigns, malware families, and TTPs mapped to MITRE ATT&CK.
• Produce decision-ready intelligence products for tactical, operational, and strategic levels.
• Own vulnerability prioritization and emergency remediation decisions.
• Lead intelligence support to incident response and post-incident lessons.
• Represent the organization in industry sharing communities and with vendor/government contacts.
• Lead detection engineering program in Splunk Enterprise Security with standards and tuning.

Skills

Splunk

SPL

Splunk ES

MITRE ATT&CK

Threat intelligence

Threat hunting

Detection engineering

Python scripting

Vulnerability management

Incident response

Tools

Tenable

SentinelOne

GitHub Advanced Security

Zscaler

Proofpoint

CI/CD tooling

Job description

State Employees' Credit Union seeks a Senior Cyber Intelligence Analyst to own intelligence-driven detection and exposure management. You will set the bar for Splunk work, mentor analysts, and brief leadership with defensible analytic calls.

You will lead threat hunting, vulnerability prioritization, and CTEM efforts while coordinating with CISO leadership and industry partners to strengthen detections and risk assessments.