Sr Cyber Defense - Threat Intelligence Lead(only W2, onsite)
Job Description
Role: Sr Cyber Defense - Threat Intelligence Lead
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Location: Irving, Tx, 5 days onsite
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Duration:12 months
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Pay Rate: $60-65/hour on W2, client will not consider C2C
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Job overview:
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You own the threat intelligence function, setting collection priorities, intelligence standards, and reporting cadence for the organization. You lead a team of analysts, direct their day-to-day work, and are personally accountable for the quality, timeliness, and actionability of intelligence delivered to Security Operations, Incident Response, Vulnerability Management, and executive stakeholders. You represent threat intelligence in leadership forums, own vendor and feed decisions, and build the program's maturity year over year.
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Key Responsibilities:
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- Set intelligence collection priorities and requirements based on organizational risk, industry targeting, and stakeholder needs
- Own the threat intelligence roadmap, including program maturity, tooling, staffing, and process improvements
- Establish and enforce standards for finished intelligence products, source reliability, and confidence-level reporting
- Define and track program KPIs, such as report timeliness, actionability, detection coverage, and stakeholder satisfaction
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Required skills:
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- 6+ years of experience in threat intelligence, security operations, or incident response, including prior experience mentoring or leading analysts
- Deep working knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK, the intelligence cycle, and structured analytic techniques
- Demonstrated experience producing and delivering intelligence to executive and board-level audiences
- Experience directing threat intelligence platform and vendor strategy, including feed evaluation and management
- Experience partnering with detection engineering, incident response, and vulnerability management on intelligence-driven prioritization
- Strong people-leadership skills, including hiring, coaching, and performance management of analysts
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate technical findings into business risk
- Sound analytic judgment, including the ability to state and defend confidence levels under scrutiny
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Please send resume ASAP.