Cybersecurity Threat Analyst

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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 Analyst. This position can be preformed remotely in the United States.

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 logs and security-related events using cybersecurity toolsets.
• Identify and respond to cyber threats occurring within Maxar environments.
• Write and compile documentation for threat research to be compiled into briefs.
• 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 clients.
• Collect and correlate threat intelligence from online sources to create actionable intelligence actions

Required Qualifications

• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• 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.

• Education: A Bachelor of Science is preferred, with a focus on information security or related disciplines
• Professional certifications: 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 cybersecurity 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.

Life with Us:

There is a reason we boast awards like Best Employer, Best Place to work, Top employer, candidate experience winner. Our strength is in our people. Each team member makes a unique contribution

to our collective mission. So, we recognize that with best-in-class benefits like:

• 401K matching and immediate vesting schedule

• Career growth opportunities

• Family friendly benefits like maternity and paternity leave, adoption reimbursement, flexible hours, hybrid work options

• Programs to help you grow like tuition reimbursement, hackathons, and career development

• Student loan repayment

• Generous time off

• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision at affordable monthly rates

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Our salary ranges are market-driven and set to allow for flexibility. Individual pay will be competitive based on a candidate’s unique set of knowledge, skills, and geographic diversity, with earnings potential commensurate with experience. The range for this position is:

$98,000.00 - $164,000.00 annually.

 

Maxar employees must follow all applicable Maxar policies and COVID-19 requirements as well as those of Maxar customers and third parties. Individual job requirements may vary, and Maxar reserves the right to modify its policies and requirements as it deems appropriate in accordance with applicable law.

Maxar Technologies values diversity in the workplace and is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.