<div>With 1,000 intelligence professionals, over $300M in sales, and serving over 1,900 clients worldwide, Recorded Future is the world’s most advanced, and largest, intelligence company!</div><h1>Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst (China Focus)</h1> Strategic and Persistent Threats, Insikt Group, Recorded Future   This Role: As a Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst on Insikt Group’s Strategic and Persistent Threats (SPT) team, you will lead efforts to track state-sponsored APT campaigns, mentor peers in intrusion analysis, represent Insikt Group’s expertise externally, and support Recorded Future’s Analyst-on-Demand service. This role involves both proactive monitoring and in-depth research into threat actor infrastructure, tools, and TTPs, as well as the production of high-impact, client-driven finished intelligence. Your focus will be on state-sponsored cyber threats originating from China. What You’ll Do:  <ul> <li>Conduct proactive research on state-sponsored APT activity by synthesizing multiple technical datasets to develop novel insights and high-quality reporting</li> <li>Establish and refine methods to track APT campaigns using network, intrusion, and malware analysis</li> <li>Hunt for threat actor infrastructure and activity across diverse technical data sources, leveraging banner data, service metadata, and related technical artifacts</li> <li>Identify, prioritize, and deploy detection mechanisms for command-and-control infrastructure, malware families, and threat groups of interest</li> <li>Continuously evaluate and improve threat intelligence workflows, identifying opportunities to enhance automation, efficiency, and analytic precision</li> <li>Stay up to date on evolving APT tradecraft by regularly reviewing technical publications, blogs, and intelligence from trusted sharing communities</li> <li>Mentor colleagues on intrusion analysis tradecraft and threat intelligence best practices, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous development</li> <li>Collaborate with geopolitical and regional analysis teams to support cross-functional research</li> <li>Propose and evaluate new data sources and analytical methods to enhance or automate the intelligence cycle</li> <li>Represent Insikt Group externally as a subject matter expert through customer briefings, media engagements, or public research dissemination</li> <li>Collaborate with engineering and data science teams to ensure effective integration of relevant data and analytics into the Recorded Future platform</li> <li>Support customer intelligence needs through Recorded Future’s Analyst-on-Demand service</li> </ul> What You’ll Bring (Required): <ul> <li>BA/BS or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Security, Security Studies, Intelligence, or a related field</li> <li>Preferably 5+ years of experience in Information Security and/or Threat Intelligence</li> <li>Demonstrated experience conducting technical threat analysis and research</li> <li>In-depth knowledge of TCP/IP and other networking protocols and datasets relevant to intrusion and network infrastructure analysis</li> <li>Demonstrated capability in identifying and tracking infrastructure through methods such as banner analysis and metadata correlation</li> <li>Experience with static and dynamic malware analysis, including family attribution and variant clustering</li> <li>Proficiency in scripting (Python preferred, or Go, C, C++, Java) and fluency with common CTI research tools such as Maltego, Jupyter Notebook, the Elastic Stack, and similar tools</li> <li>Proven experience applying structured analytical techniques and intelligence methodologies to assess state-sponsored threat activity, including the intelligence cycle, intelligence writing best practices, and frameworks such as the Diamond Model</li> <li>Familiarity with threat modeling and adversary tracking frameworks such as MITRE ATT&amp;CK, the Cyber Kill Chain, and related models to support campaign clustering, detection development, and strategic reporting</li> <li>Detailed understanding of existing APT groups’ past activities, TTPs, motivations, and targeting patterns</li> <li>Experience with open-source intelligence-gathering tools and techniques</li> <li>Experience working directly with customers, with strong written and verbal communication skills to clearly convey complex technical and non-technical concepts</li> <li>Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills, including working with globally distributed team members</li> </ul> Highly Desirable Skills/Experience (not required): <ul> <li>MA/MS or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Security, or a related field</li> <li>Experience writing network and endpoint detection signatures</li> <li>Experience with Windows, iOS, Android, macOS, or malware analysis</li> <li>Proficiency in a high-priority foreign language, with preference for Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, or Spanish</li> </ul> The base salary range for this full-time position is $127,000 - $160,000.  Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. 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