Cybersecurity Threat Analyst

Maxar Intelligence is a provider of secure, precise geospatial intelligence. We deliver disruptive value to government and commercial customers to help them monitor, understand, and navigate our changing planet. Our unique approach combines decades of deep mission understanding and a proven commercial and defense foundation to deploy solutions and deliver insights with unrivaled speed, scale, and cost-effectiveness.

We are hiring immediately for a Cybersecurity Threat Analystto join our team in Westminster, CO. This position can work from home two days per week and in the office three days.

The Maxar Cybersecurity team is seeking a Threat Intelligence Analyst with experience in building out and maintaining a threat intelligence program for large-scale environments. As a Threat Intelligence Analyst on our Managed Threat Response (MTR) team, you will play a critical role in supporting the team in detecting, analyzing, and neutralizing cyber threats before they impact our environments. Your primary focus will be on gathering threat intelligence and proactively hunting in order to defend Maxar networks against emerging threats. You'll collaborate with a team of incident response analysts, engineers, vulnerability management specialists and cybersecurity leadership.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Collaborate with other threat analysts to identify and understand threats to Maxar.

• Investigate and analyze dark web and security-related events using cybersecurity toolsets.

• Identify and respond to cyber threats occurring within Maxar environments.

• Write and compile threat research documents to be distributed to stakeholders.

• Communicate findings to technical and executive teams.

• Follow up with Maxar teams through issue resolution and provide recommendations to minimize risk.

• Collaborate with cybersecurity and threat response teams and provide Tier 3 support when needed.

• Research emerging Indicators of Compromise (IoCs), exploits, and vulnerabilities to enhance protection for our networks.

• Must take a proactive approach in improving and enhancing team deliverables and research methodologies.

• Collect and correlate threat intelligence from OSINT and third-party tools to create actionable intelligence.

Required Qualifications:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen

• Must have the ability to obtain a security clearance

• 5+ years' experience in a Cybersecurity related role with an experience in threat intelligence gathering and analysis.

• Working knowledge of Information Security best practices, policies, standards, and baselines, including industry standards and guidelines from NIST, CIS, and OWASP.

• A Bachelor of Science is preferred, with a focus on information security or related disciplines

• IT Security Certifications such as Security+, CySA+, CISSP, CEH, or other equivalent certifications.

• Strong communication, collaboration, and analytical skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with industry standard security tools.

• Experience with OSINT and other intelligence gathering toolsets.

• Technical working experience/knowledge of operating systems, databases, web applications, mobile devices, middleware, and other computing devices/software components.

• Knowledge and experience related to the space industry and its technology stack.