Senior Specialist – SOC Threat Intelligence

The Senior Specialist – SOC Threat Intelligence is a senior analytical position within the company consultancy, embedded directly within a major banking client. This role is responsible for collecting, analyzing, and operationalizing cyber threat intelligence to drive proactive detection capabilities within the bank’s Security Operations Center (SOC). Serving as a critical link between global threat landscapes and localized defensive operations, this position ensures that emerging indicators of compromise (IoCs) and adversary tactics are rapidly converted into actionable detection rules, upholding the company’s standards of technical precision and professional excellence in the financial sector.

Responsibilities

• Threat Intelligence Analysis: Collect, evaluate, and analyze technical threat intelligence from open-source, commercial, and dark-web feeds to identify threats relevant to the banking infrastructure.
• Proactive SOC Enablement: Translate tactical threat data into actionable detection use cases, correlation rules, and watchlists within the enterprise SIEM/XDR platforms.
• Adversary Tracking: Monitor and document the Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) of financially motivated threat groups and advanced persistent threats (APTs) targeting the financial services sector.
• Incident Response Support: Provide technical context and specialized intelligence support to SOC analysts and incident responders during active security investigations or high-severity alerts.
• Senior Briefings: Synthesize technical intelligence findings into clear, structured threat advisories and situational briefings for senior security management and risk stakeholders.
• Strategic Collaboration: Representing the company on the ground by modeling proactive operational leadership, technical accuracy, and collaborative problem-solving across the global SOC function.

Requirements

• Advanced proficiency in threat analysis frameworks, including the MITRE ATT&CK matrix, Cyber Kill Chain, and the Diamond Model of Intrusion Analysis.
• Deep understanding of modern SOC workflows, including SIEM content tuning, EDR/XDR monitoring, and log analysis.
• Capacity to analyze unstructured threat data, perform threat hunting investigations, and eliminate false positives to ensure high-fidelity alerting.
• Practical experience with Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIPs), malware analysis tools, open-source intelligence (OSINT) techniques, and commercial intelligence providers.
• Ability to communicate complex attack vectors and technical indicators clearly to frontline analysts, while providing concise impact summaries for senior leadership.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in dedicated cybersecurity roles, with at least 3 years focused directly on cyber threat intelligence (CTI) or senior SOC analysis.
• Financial Services Context: Proven experience operating within a regulated tier-1 or tier-2 financial institution or a dedicated financial sector Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC).
• Consulting Delivery: Prior experience in a client-facing professional services or consulting capacity, managing delivery expectations and operational timelines.
• Detection Engineering Support: Documented experience collaborating with engineering teams to deploy automated blocks or detection logic based on threat intelligence findings.

Desirable Capabilities

• Professional Certifications: Relevant designations such as GCTI (GIAC Cyber Threat Intelligence), GCIA, GCIH, CISSP, or specialized threat intelligence credentials.
• Automation & Scripting: Ability to write scripts (e.g., Python) to automate the ingestion, parsing, and distribution of threat indicators.
• Malware Analysis: Basic capability to perform static and dynamic analysis of malicious binaries or scripts to extract unique indicators of compromise.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive personal health insurance
• Visa sponsorship for the successful individual
• Professional development and certification support
• Subscription reimbursement relating to your role
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI projects
• Monthly Employee Incentive program
• Career advancement opportunities in a rapidly growing AI company

Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates