Principal Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist

University of Miami; Miami (FL); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Miami Information Technology & Systems Department seeks a full-time Principal Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist to lead enterprise threat intelligence and AI-enabled security operations across the university and UHealth.

This senior role focuses on threat detection, incident response, and security automation, collaborating with clinical, research, and institutional teams to advance cybersecurity capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant field.
• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience.
• Demonstrated learning agility and adaptability to changing priorities.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Any combination of education, experience, and/or certifications may be considered.

Responsibilities

• Leads the University's enterprise threat intelligence program across academic, healthcare, research, and administrative environments.
• Monitors and analyzes intelligence from diverse sources to identify emerging threats and risks.
• Develops intelligence-driven threat detection strategies and proactive cyber defense capabilities.
• Translates threat intelligence into actionable recommendations, detection content, and response procedures.

Skills

Bachelor's degree

10+ years experience

Learning Agility

Teamwork

Technical Proficiency

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in relevant field

Job description

The University of Miami Information Technology & Systems Department has an exciting opportunity for a full-time Principal Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist. The Principal Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist serves as the University's senior subject matter expert for enterprise threat intelligence, artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled cybersecurity operations, and security automation. This role leads the development and execution of intelligence-driven cyber defense strategies that enhance threat detection, incident response, vulnerability management, and operational efficiency across the University of Miami and UHealth. The incumbent provides enterprise-wide technical leadership and strategic guidance without direct supervisory responsibility and collaborates with technology, security, clinical, research, and institutional stakeholders to advance cybersecurity capabilities across academic, research, healthcare, and administrative environments.

Core Responsibilities

• Leads the University's enterprise threat intelligence program supporting academic, healthcare, research, and administrative environments.
• Monitors, analyzes, and operationalizes intelligence from internal, external, commercial, government, and industry threat sources to identify emerging cyber threats and risks.
• Develops intelligence-driven threat detection strategies, threat hunting methodologies, and proactive cyber defense capabilities.
• Translates threat intelligence into actionable recommendations, detection content, response procedures, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Leads advanced cyber threat analysis activities during significant security incidents, investigations, and cybersecurity events.
• Serves as the University's principal subject matter expert for AI-enabled cybersecurity operations, security automation, and intelligence-driven security practices.
• Designs, implements, and optimizes AI-powered workflows, prompts, playbooks, knowledge repositories, and automation solutions that enhance Security Operations Center (SOC) effectiveness and operational efficiency.
• Develops, deploys, and manages AI-powered agents and automated processes that support security monitoring, investigations, incident response, and operational decision-making.
• Establishes standards, governance practices, and security controls for the responsible and secure use of artificial intelligence technologies within cybersecurity operations.
• Develops and enhances enterprise security monitoring, analytics, reporting, and orchestration capabilities that improve threat detection, vulnerability prioritization, and cyber risk visibility.
• Analyzes and correlates threat, vulnerability, and operational security data using intelligence-driven and AI-assisted methodologies to identify emerging risks and critical exposures.
• Designs and implements dashboards, reporting solutions, automated workflows, runbooks, and operational playbooks that support remediation prioritization, risk reduction, and leadership decision-making.
• Leads cybersecurity innovation initiatives focused on threat intelligence, artificial intelligence, automation, and operational modernization while researching emerging technologies, threats, and industry trends.
• Serves as a trusted technical advisor and collaborates with cybersecurity, infrastructure, clinical technology, research computing, identity and access management, governance, risk and compliance, application teams, and institutional leadership to advance enterprise security objectives.
• Adheres to University and unit-level policies and procedures and safeguards University assets.

This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties or responsibilities as necessary.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field required
• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience required
• Learning Agility: Ability to learn new procedures, technologies, and protocols, and adapt to changing priorities and work demands.
• Teamwork: Ability to work collaboratively with others and contribute to a team environment.
• Technical Proficiency: Skilled in using office software, technology, and relevant computer applications.
• Communication: Strong and clear written and verbal communication skills for interacting with colleagues and stakeholders.
• Any appropriate combination of relevant education, experience and/or certifications may be considered.

Compensation & Benefits

• competitive salaries
• a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, tuition remission and more.

UHealth-University of Miami Health System, South Florida's only university-based health system, provides leading-edge patient care powered by the ground breaking research and medical education at the Miller School of Medicine. As an academic medical center, we are proud to serve South Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean. Our physicians represent more than 100 specialties and sub-specialties, and have more than one million patient encounters each year. Our tradition of excellence has earned worldwide recognition for outstanding teaching, research and patient care.

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The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination based on certain categories protected by Federal law.

Job Status: Full time Employee Type: Staff

The mission of the University of Miami is to transform lives through education, research, innovation, and service. A vibrant and diverse academic and healthcare community, the University of Miami and the University of Miami Health System ("UHealth") have rapidly progressed to become one of the nation’s top research universities and academic medical centers in the nation.

The University comprises 12 schools and colleges serving undergraduate and graduate students in more than 350 majors and programs. Visit welcome.miami.edu/about-um to learn more about our points of pride. The University ranks No. 55 on U.S. News & World Report’s 2022 Best Colleges list and ranked No. 49 in the 2022 Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings. Bascom Palmer Eye Institute is ranked the #1 eye hospital in the USA and offers some of the nation's premiere eye doctors to treat every eye condition for adults. Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer, part of the Miller School of Medicine, received the prestigious National Cancer Institute designation in 2019. The University of Miami and UHealth have also ranked among the Forbes Best Employers and Best Employers for Women on several occasions, most recently in 2022. With more than 17,000 faculty and staff, the University strives for excellence, and is driven by a powerful mission to transform and impact the lives of its students, patients, members of the community, and people across the globe.

The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination based on certain categories protected by Federal law.