The OCI Threat Intelligence Center is responsible for the tracking and monitoring of a range of threat actors from cybercrime to Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups impacting OCI and its customers. The scope and responsibility of this team includes attack analysis, tracking threat actor's indicators of compromise (IOCs) and their tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), aiding in security incident response, executive communication, and customer outreach.

 

As a Threat Intelligence Investigator, you will primarily focus on the day-to-day actions of threat actors that are of most significant value to our public sector partners. You will be responsible for tracking numerous groups independently and lead operational activities when situations present themselves. You will engage directly with public-sector customers and be responsible for maintaining those relationships and producing deliverables upon request. You will also have a passion for cyber security, researching and remaining current on attack trends, and ability to adapt to an organic and fast paced environment is a must. 

 

The position is a security designated role. The candidate will be an Australian Citizen able to hold and maintain a Top Secret Positive Vetted Clearance.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead collection and analysis efforts of suspected advanced persistent threat campaigns across the OCI ecosystem, develop remediation plans, and drive incidents to resolution and attribution.
- Manage various communication streams including cross company and executive communications
- Work supporting Oracle Australia National Security, Corporate Affairs, and other key stakeholders on various key initiatives

- Keep up-to-date on geopolitical issues across the world and be able to translate them into potential and future cyber incidents involving Oracle and its ecosystem

- Be an advocate for the needs of customers and help change scope and direction of Threat Intelligence program when necessitated.
- Develop and maintain threat intelligence procedures and runbooks.

- Ingratiate into the larger Threat Intelligence community to create and maintain trust networks.

Preferred Qualifications

- 4-6 years of industry experience performing analytical and operational work and case management against advanced threats. Have worked at least 3-4 different APT groups across at least two different regions in the world.

- Experience in one or more of the following fields of work: National security, military, federal intelligence, law enforcement, criminology, and/or foreign areas and language
- A broad background in information security with experience in security operations, vulnerabilities and exploitation, network security, and cloud security. 

- Experience with variety of operating systems and threats that target them including Windows, UNIX/LINUX, and MacOS

- Experience performing open source research on a variety of topics
- Excellent verbal/non-verbal communication skills with proficient ability to deliver technical information to non-technical staff
- Previous Incident Response, Security Operations Center, and/or Forensic Analyst experience preferred
- Previous experience with malware analysis and/or reverse engineering capabilities highly desired
- Knowledge of common attack types/vectors and associated mitigations. 

- Knowledge of how to use structured queries to pull data from logs and be able to formulate signatures such as ability to use YARA, Snort, Suricata, Bro/Zeek successfully 

- BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, Cyber Security, or equivalent experience

- Prior experience working on a global security team is a plus in industry or government

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