Hiring for Direct Client || Threat Intelligence Lead || Irving, Texas || Contract Position Only W2

• Set the team’s quarterly collection priorities based on a shift in the organization’s threat landscape or business footprint
• Lead intelligence support for a major incident, briefing executive leadership on likely actor, objectives, and containment status
• Negotiate and onboard a new commercial threat intelligence feed, defining success metrics before renewal
• Review and elevate an analyst’s actor profile before it goes to the CISO and board
• Direct a purple team exercise built around a threat actor actively targeting the organization’s sector

Years of Experience

• 10+ years of experience in threat intelligence, security operations, or incident response, including prior experience mentoring or leading analysts

Nice-to-Have Qualifications (Desired but Not Required)

• Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIPs): MISP, ThreatConnect, Anomali, Recorded Future
• SIEM/SOAR: Splunk, Palo Alto Cortex XSOAR
• Malware and sandbox analysis: VirusTotal, Any.Run, Hybrid Analysis, Joe Sandbox
• Frameworks: MITRE ATT&CK, Diamond Model, Cyber Kill Chain, Traffic Light Protocol (TLP)
• OSINT and dark web tooling: Maltego, Shodan, Censys, dark web monitoring services
• Vulnerability and exposure data: CVE/NVD, EPSS, CISA KEV catalog
• Program and reporting: KPI dashboards, ticketing/workflow tools, executive reporting templates

Required Qualifications (Non-Negotiable)

• Deep working knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK, the intelligence cycle, and structured analytic techniques
• Demonstrated experience producing and delivering intelligence to executive and board-level audiences
• Experience directing threat intelligence platform and vendor strategy, including feed evaluation and management
• Experience partnering with detection engineering, incident response, and vulnerability management on intelligence-driven prioritization
• Strong people-leadership skills, including hiring, coaching, and performance management of analysts
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate technical findings into business risk
• Sound analytic judgment, including the ability to state and defend confidence levels under scrutiny, * Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Intelligence Studies, or related field, or equivalent experience