Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst III

About the role

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

Top Secret

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

Top Secret/SCI

Public Trust/Other Required:

None

Job Family:

Intelligence Operations and Analysis

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Cyber Operations, Cyber Threat Analysis, Cyber Threat Intelligence, Intelligence Reports, Threat Monitoring

Certifications:

None

Experience:

5 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

Yes

Job Description:

Position Summary

The Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst III produces timely, accurate threat intelligence that supports a DHS agency's national cyber operations. The analyst fuses classified and unclassified intelligence, open-source, law enforcement, and partner reporting into products that help leaders and operators understand who is acting, how, and what is at risk.

The analyst works closely with watch floor, incident management, and hunt and response teams, adding threat context to active incidents and keeping leadership informed through regular and short-turn products.

Key Responsibilities

Threat Monitoring & Analysis

• Continuously monitor intelligence, open-source, media, law enforcement, and partner reporting.
• Analyze threat actors, campaigns, and tactics, techniques, and procedures, and map them to MITRE ATT&CK.
• Assess relevance of threats to federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, and critical infrastructure partners.
• Apply structured analytic techniques and clearly state confidence and sourcing.

Intelligence Products & Leadership Support

• Produce weekly and monthly intelligence updates, leadership notes, threat summaries, and rapid briefings.
• Contribute threat content to alerts, advisories, and partner communications.
• Follow classification review and downgrade procedures so products can be shared at the right level.
• Align products to the agency's existing critical information requirements and essential elements of information.

Incident & Operations Support

• Provide threat context to triage and incident management, including indicators and actor attribution where supported.
• Give hunt and response teams leads drawn from intelligence reporting.
• Support surge and crisis action activities during significant incidents.

Critical Infrastructure Context

• Help analyze threats against critical infrastructure sectors, their dependencies, and potential consequences.
• Contribute to operational and strategic reporting on critical infrastructure threats and vulnerabilities.

Tools & Data

• Use and help improve threat intelligence platforms and sharing standards such as STIX and TAXII.
• Review AI-generated summaries and enrichment for accuracy before release.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Intelligence Studies, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, International Relations, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in cyber threat intelligence analysis.
• Working knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK, the Diamond Model, and the Cyber Kill Chain.
• Experience with threat intelligence platforms and STIX/TAXII.
• Experience writing intelligence products for senior government leaders.
• Experience working with classified intelligence reporting.
• Active Top Secret (TS) clearance.
• Eligibility to obtain and maintain TS/SCI access.
• Ability to work onsite at DHS Headquarters and other agency sites in the National Capital Region. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience at DHS, CISA, the Intelligence Community, DoD, or FBI cyber components.
• Experience analyzing threats to critical infrastructure, including industrial control systems and operational technology.
• Experience using Palantir or other enterprise analytics platforms for intelligence analysis.
• Experience reviewing or validating AI-assisted analysis.GCTI, CTIA, or similar certifications.
• Experience applying Intelligence Community analytic and sourcing standards (ICD 203 and ICD 206).
• Experience managing intelligence requirements and requests for information, including tracking whether products met the need.
• Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK for ICS.
• Ability to support nights, weekends, holidays, on-call, and work at a continuity site during emergencies.
• Current DHS suitability (Entry on Duty) determination.
• Experience handling information under the Traffic Light Protocol and controlled unclassified information (CUI) markings.

The likely salary range for this position is $123,250 - $166,750. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Travel Required:

10-25%

Telecommuting Options:

Onsite

Work Location:

USA DC Washington

Additional Work Locations:

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