Threat Intelligence Honeypot Engineer

Are you ready to push the limits of Threat Intelligence and offensive security? We're looking for a highly skilled Senior Threat Intelligence Engineer to help us enhance our ability to understand and detect how organisations could be compromised - in real time.

This is a hands-on, high-impact role for an experienced and highly technical professional who thrives on complex data challenges and wants to shape the future of proactive cyber defence.

What you'll do

• Analyse and interpret large-scale honeypot datasets to uncover patterns, behaviours, and real-world attack techniques.
• Design and deploy detections for both known and emerging exploits, translating raw telemetry into actionable intelligence.
• Develop and maintain intelligence platforms capable of ingesting, analysing, and alerting on threats in real time.
• Build scenarios and simulations based on live adversary data to support detection engineering, research, and reporting.
• Collaborate across teams to ensure intelligence findings are rapidly operationalised and communicated to key stakeholders.
• Produce clear, insightful intelligence reports that inform strategy, response, and prevention efforts.

• 8+ years' experience in cybersecurity, with a focus on large-scale data analysis, threat intelligence, or offensive security.
• Deep experience with honeypot data - analysing, correlating, and building scenarios from high-volume, real-world attack telemetry.
• 2+ years' experience specifically in a Threat Intelligence function.
• Familiarity with threat actor tracking, vulnerability databases, and frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK.
• Strong data analysis skills, ideally using the ELK stack (OpenSearch, Logstash, Kibana).
• Intermediate proficiency in Python, capable of automating workflows and developing custom analysis tools.
• Background in Incident Response or SOC operations is a plus.
• Experience in a fast-paced, early-stage environment working with enterprise clients is highly desirable., If you're passionate about understanding the adversary, thrive on working with rich, complex data, and want to make a tangible impact in the cybersecurity space - we'd love to hear from you.

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