Senior Security Operations & Threat Intel Lead

Point72; New York (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully-paid health care benefits

Generous parental and family leave

Mental and physical wellness programs

Volunteer opportunities

Non-profit matching gift program

Employee affinity groups support

Tuition assistance

401(k) employer match

Job summary

Point72 is seeking a senior security leader to drive investigations of sophisticated cyber threats and to serve as incident commander during critical events. You will translate threat intel into actionable defense, build dashboards, and collaborate with engineering teams to enhance security capabilities.

You will also communicate findings to executives, report on risk, and uphold the highest ethical standards while protecting the firm’s technology environment and data assets.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in intelligence, information security, network forensics, insider threat, or security operations.
• Understanding of key global threat areas affecting financial institutions, advanced persistent threats, and cyber actor motives.
• Experience with Splunk and creating visualizations and dashboards for security monitoring and investigations.
• Exceptional ability to analyze, correlate, and synthesize threat data from diverse sources into clear investigative conclusions.
• Proven ability to perform log file analysis and produce threat intelligence reports with findings, mitigations, and confidence levels.
• Extensive experience applying advanced analytics, network diagrams, and related knowledge to understand systems and adversaries.
• Ability to work with development teams and clearly articulate requirements and enhancements for security capabilities and tools.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level reporting for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to document findings and create detailed reports that strengthen security tradecraft.
• Commitment to the highest ethical standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead investigations into sophisticated cyber threats and shape defensive actions that protect the critical technology environment at the firm.
• Serve as incident commander for high or critical incidents by coordinating response actions, driving timely decisions, and keeping stakeholders aligned.
• Analyze and correlate security telemetry, log data, and threat intelligence to identify malicious activity and determine organizational impact.
• Develop threat intelligence reports that explain findings, mitigations, confidence levels, and implications for security operations.
• Create dashboards and visualizations that help security teams detect patterns, prioritize risks, and improve response decisions.
• Hunt for advanced adversary activity by applying analytics, network diagrams, and system knowledge to identify hidden threats.
• Partner with development teams to define requirements and enhancements for security capabilities, analytics, and operational tools.
• Document investigative findings and lessons learned to continually strengthen detection logic, response procedures, and security tradecraft.
• Brief technical teams, business stakeholders, and leadership on active threats, incident status, and recommended actions.

Skills

Threat intelligence

Incident response

Threat hunting

Security analytics

Executive communication

Log analysis

Security operations

Threat modeling

Network forensics

Tools

Splunk

Job description

Point72 is seeking a senior security leader to drive investigations of sophisticated cyber threats and to serve as incident commander during critical events. You will translate threat intel into actionable defense, build dashboards, and collaborate with engineering teams to enhance security capabilities.

You will also communicate findings to executives, report on risk, and uphold the highest ethical standards while protecting the firm’s technology environment and data assets.