Location(s): UK, Europe & Africa: Frimley, London, Manchester
Job Title:
Threat Intelligence Specialist
Location
Hybrid – expected to be in office at least one day a week from Frimley, London or Manchester.
What you'll be doing
* Investigate cyber intrusions and threat activity in the Middle East region as part of the global Threat Intelligence team.
* Discover, analyze, document, and track advanced threat actor campaigns.
* Conduct research on threat actors (hacktivist to criminal to state) and their tools, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) using commercial and open sources.
* Produce finished intelligence reports on state and criminal threats with actionable mitigation and detection guidance.
* Collaborate with technical specialists, intelligence analysts, and customer-facing consultants.
* Support intelligence analysts with malware analysis and incident responders with technical expertise.
Skills and experience
* Experience tracking actors or campaigns and their associated tactics, techniques, and tools.
* Strong understanding of the cyber threat landscape and ability to communicate relevant insights to customers.
* Self‑starter with ability to identify problems early and develop solutions using own initiative.
* Technical skills with an interest in one or more of: open source intelligence investigations, digital forensics, infrastructure analysis, threat hunting, or malware reverse engineering.
* Understanding of networking fundamentals such as HTTP, TCP/IP, DNS and other core protocols.
* Experience writing Python scripts.
* Ability to document and explain technical details clearly and concisely in writing and graphics for technical and non‑technical audiences.
Desirable skills
* Experience querying commercial and open sources such as Shodan, Censys, etc.
* Familiarity with malware sandboxing and using the output to pivot and find additional activity.
* Experience in threat hunting and creating file/network traffic signatures using Yara and Snort.
* Experience with cloud environments, including AWS and Azure.
* Experience writing Python scripts.
Benefits
Competitive pension scheme, employee share plans, extensive flexible health, wellbeing & lifestyle benefits including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts. You may also be eligible for an annual incentive.
Why BAE Systems?
Bae Systems offers world‑class threat intelligence services across the globe. This role focuses on threats to the Middle East region within a team that investigates nation‑state threat actors and intrusions daily. We welcome diverse backgrounds and provide inclusive culture, merit‑based rewards and reasonable adjustments for disabilities.
All applicants must achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard and many require higher levels of National Security Vetting with 5–10 years continuous UK residency depending on the level needed.
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