Principal Threat Intelligence Consultant

GuidePoint Security

Principal GRIT Consultant at GuidePoint Security delivering Threat Intelligence services and solutions to various sectors. Leading the GRIT team and collaborating on complex threat intelligence tasks and investigations.

Posted 6/18/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGoOpen SourcePython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Operate as a technical resource within the Practice and actively participate in DFIR investigations to provide actionable intelligence.
Mentor junior analysts and provide leadership.
Effective engagement communication, time management, and collaboration with peers.
Author comprehensive engagement deliverables that are tailored to both technical and managerial audiences as well as fully detail the technical findings, recommendations, business impact, and realistic remediation strategies.
Foster client relationships by providing support, information, and guidance.
Utilize automation, orchestration, and scripting to reduce manual processes, improving overall efficiency while also enabling new capabilities to meet the rapidly changing needs of our clients.
Contribute to integration of existing and future open-source and commercial tools to help improve GRIT processes and procedures.
Perpetually strengthen relevant skills, knowledge, and abilities to stay at the forefront of the information security industry.
Maintain a strong desire to learn, adapt, and improve along with a rapidly-growing company.
Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Five (5+) years of experience performing Threat Intelligence analysis.
Five (7+) combined years of IT and information security experience.
Embraces emerging technologies, including AI tools, to work smarter, solve problems, and drive better business outcomes.
Prior experience in a Consulting Services role.
Experience implementing or improving operational processes or procedures in the intelligence analysis lifecycle.
Proficiency hunting APT data using open source or commercial cyber threat analytic tools or data repositories such as VirusTotal, Passive Total, Threat Miner, or Maltego.
Core capabilities include:
Network traffic analysis
Host forensics
Malware handling / triage
Log review
Experience with a variety of industry-related solutions including EDR, SIEM, NDR, FW, NGAV, Velociraptor, OSQuery, and others.
Strong ability to correlate data and research using open source repositories (ex. VirusTotal, Domaintools, Threatminer, etc.)
Intermediate ability to present technical information and analysis to audiences up to 50 persons on a quarterly basis.
Ability to apply formal intelligence analysis methods, develop hypothesis, prove/disprove relationships, always ask why, defend your analysis, and apply attribution to cyber threat activity.
Ability to make confidence-based assessments for purposes of attribution based on their technical analysis of network traffic, multi-source data, malware and system analysis. Candidate must be able to identify analytic bias.
Experience with common programming languages including PowerShell, Python, BASH, Go, or others.
Experience with cloud technologies for the enterprise, such as Amazon Web Services, G Suite, Office 365, and Azure.
Awareness of attacker techniques, advanced threat groups, and integration of intelligence into an investigation.
Other relevant industry certifications, such as but not limited to GCIA, GCIH, GDAT, GCFE, and GFCA.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Group Medical Insurance options: Zero Deductible PPO Plan (GuidePoint pays 90% of the premium for employees and 70% for family plans (spouse/children/family) or High Deductible Health Plan with HSA (GuidePoint pays 100% of the employees premiums and 75% for family plans (spouse/children/family). If you choose the High Deductible / HSA plan, GPS will contribute in 4 equal quarterly installments: ($850 per EE annually / $1750 per family annually (includes spouse/children/family options)
Group Dental Insurance: GuidePoint pays 100% of the premium for employees and 75% of family plans
12 corporate holidays and a Flexible Time Off (FTO) program
Healthy mobile phone and home internet allowance
Eligibility for retirement plan after 2 months at open enrollment
Pet Benefit Option

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Hard Skills & Tools

Threat Intelligence analysisNetwork traffic analysisHost forensicsMalware handlingLog reviewProgramming languagesAutomationOrchestrationScriptingOperational processes

Soft Skills

MentoringLeadershipEffective communicationTime managementCollaborationClient relationship managementAdaptabilityDesire to learnProblem-solvingPresentation skills

Certifications

GCIAGCIHGDATGCFEGFCA