Threat Intelligence, OSINT Analyst
Two Six Technologies
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $110,560 - $165,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
Cyber Security
About the role
- Conduct research across open sources, social media, forums, news media, code repositories, and publicly available datasets.
- Perform structured online investigations using non-attributable browsing, advanced search techniques, and OSINT tradecraft.
- Gather intelligence from deep web/dark web platforms, leveraging secure and compliant access methods (e.g., TOR, VPNs).
- Identify new sources of relevant information, including emerging platforms, niche communities, and alternative data streams.
- Monitor threat actor activity, illicit marketplaces, malware communities, and cybercriminal trends.
- Evaluate collected data to identify indicators, patterns, and threat signatures related to cyber, criminal, or geopolitical activity.
- Produce tactical, operational, and strategic intelligence products tailored to stakeholder needs.
- Correlate multi-source information—including OSINT, SOCMINT, GEOINT, technical telemetry, and dark web reporting—to develop comprehensive threat assessments.
- Support cybersecurity teams by identifying IOCs, TTPs, adversary profiles, and vulnerability exploitation trends.
- Conduct attribution assessments and contextual analysis on threat actors and campaigns.
- Create written intelligence reports, visualizations, briefings, and dashboards to communicate findings to leadership and operational units.
- Present analysis to technical and non-technical audiences, providing clear recommendations and assessments.
- Maintain intelligence requirements (IRs/PIRs) and contribute to the continuous refinement of collection priorities.
- Collaborate with cybersecurity, investigations, legal, engineering, and executive teams to ensure intelligence aligns with organizational mission needs.
Requirements
- Experience in OSINT collection, cyber threat intelligence, digital investigations, or related intelligence fields.
- Strong knowledge of cyber threat actor TTPs, global threat trends, and online malicious ecosystems.
- Proficiency with OSINT tools, SOCMINT techniques, and open-source research methodologies.
- Ability to investigate across social media platforms, online communities, marketplaces, and technical repositories.
- Familiarity with TOR, VPNs, encryption tools, operational security (OPSEC), and non-attributable research methods.
- Understanding of cybersecurity fundamentals, including IOCs, malware behaviors, vulnerabilities, and incident response workflows.
- Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills, with the ability to derive insights from incomplete data.
- Strong written and verbal communication abilities, including producing concise intelligence products.
Benefits
- medical, dental, and vision insurance
- life and disability insurance
- retirement benefits
- paid leave
- tuition assistance and professional development
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
OSINT collectioncyber threat intelligencedigital investigationsTTPsthreat assessmentsdata analysisincident responseencryption toolsmalware behaviorsvulnerability exploitation
Soft skills
analytical skillscritical thinkingwritten communicationverbal communicationcollaborationpresentation skillsproblem-solvingattention to detailadaptabilitystakeholder engagement