Senior Cyber Intelligence & Detection Lead

State Employees' Credit Union; Raleigh (NC); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

State Employees' Credit Union is seeking a Senior Cyber Intelligence Analyst to own threat intelligence, detection engineering, and threat hunting in a financial services context. You will lead analytic tradecraft, establish detection standards, and mentor a team of analysts.

You will oversee MITRE ATT&CK mappings, vulnerability prioritization, and executive-level briefings, collaborating with peers and governance bodies to drive risk-informed decisions.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in cybersecurity with 4+ years in threat intelligence, detection engineering, or threat hunting; leadership experience.
• Expert hands-on Splunk skills: SPL, Splunk Enterprise Security, correlation searches, risk-based alerting.
• Deep knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK, analytic techniques, and intelligence product standards (confidence language, sourcing, analytic rigor).
• Strong understanding of attacker tradecraft across endpoint, network, identity, cloud, and email, with telemetry/search translation.
• Experience integrating threat intelligence into vulnerability prioritization using CVSS, VPR, EPSS, CISA KEV, and exploit intelligence.
• Excellent analytic writing and briefing skills; comfortable presenting to executives and defending assessments.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and raise the technical bar for a team.

Responsibilities

• Lead threat intelligence and analysis; own requirements, campaigns, and MITRE ATT&CK mappings.
• Lead detection engineering; design high-value detections, risk-based alerting, and SPL standards.
• Lead threat hunting and exposure management; correlate data across tools to identify exposed assets.
• Mentor analysts, manage dashboards, and present risk assessments to leadership.
• Represent the organization in industry groups and coordinate with stakeholders across IT and security.

Skills

Splunk

MITRE ATT&CK

Threat intelligence

Analytic writing

Leadership

Briefings

Education

Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity or related field

Tools

Splunk ES

Tenable

SentinelOne

GitHub

Zscaler

Proofpoint

Job description

State Employees' Credit Union is seeking a Senior Cyber Intelligence Analyst to own threat intelligence, detection engineering, and threat hunting in a financial services context. You will lead analytic tradecraft, establish detection standards, and mentor a team of analysts.

You will oversee MITRE ATT&CK mappings, vulnerability prioritization, and executive-level briefings, collaborating with peers and governance bodies to drive risk-informed decisions.