Job Description
At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK’s leading Wealth & Investments group.
Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so that we can attract and retain the industry’s best talent.
Our people put our stakeholders at the heart of everything they do by helping us to make a positive difference to the lives of our clients, customers, colleagues, shareholders, and society.
We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand. We are committed to providing excellent client service, supported by leading technology and talent.
Aberdeen comprises three businesses, interactive investor (ii), Investments, and Adviser, each of which focuses on meeting and adapting to our clients’ evolving needs:
1. interactive investor, the UK’s second largest direct-to-consumer investment platform, enables individuals in the UK to plan, save, and invest in the way that works for them.
2. Our Adviser business provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers.
3. Our Investments business is a specialist asset manager that focuses on areas where we have both strength and scale to capitalise on the key themes shaping the market, through either public markets or alternative asset classes.
About the Role:
The Senior Cyber Threat Intelligence analyst is an exciting and integral part of our Cyber Threat intelligence Team that supports the wider Cyber Security Operations team in delivering improvements to the organisation’s security posture and keeping our business safe from Cyber-attacks.
The successful candidate would be responsible for the collection, analysis, and dissemination of actionable intelligence to proactively identify, assess, and mitigate threats to our organisation.
The role requires expertise in tracking threat actors, understanding emerging threats & TTPS, and translating complex intelligence into clear, actionable recommendations for both technical and executive stakeholders.
The role holder will report directly to the Cyber Threat intelligence Lead, and is based in Edinburgh, and work with other security functions including specialist 3rd party security suppliers, global IT and business teams.
Key Responsibilities:
4. Threat intelligence capabilities: Support and improve the Cyber Threat intelligence function based on priorities and intelligence requirements/needs.
5. Threat modelling utilising industry recognised methods/techniques to create relevant threat scenarios.
6. Produce Intelligence: Strategic, Operational, tactical and technical.
7. Gather TI requirements, facilitate intelligence evaluation and ensuring threat information and intelligence is described in a clear, concise manner.
8. Respond to emerging threats with ad hoc alerts and issuance of threat intelligence briefings to relevant areas of the business.
9. Engagement in industry information sharing groups and forums.
10. Facilitate and contribute to threat hunting & use case development.
11. Understanding and Demonstrating attacker TTP’s to drive control improvements, and strategic decision-making processes.
12. Ownership and engineering of threat intelligence systems, scripts or integrations.
13. Support Incident response by providing contextual information to security incidents and facilitating tabletop exercises.
About the Candidate:
14. Experience in security and threat intelligence within an international asset management or similar large organisations.
15. Experience with enterprise threat intelligence frameworks and Tooling. Including hands on experience with attackers TTP’s, managing technical IoC’s and TI platforms.
16. Experience with security tools, such as SIEM, IDS/IPS, EDR, vulnerability scanners, AV, web and email filtering, webapp firewalls and DDoS protections, host-based protections and malware analysis.
17. Familiarity with common enterprise technologies e.g. Microsoft, Linux, VMware, Citrix, etc.
18. Experience with Threat intelligence in cloud environments e.g. Azure, AWS, etc.
19. Passion for security and self-development to keep up to date with the evolving threat and vulnerability landscape, new technologies and service improvements.
20. Able to work in an international matrix organisation with complex and dynamic drivers and constraints.
21. Comfortable with a fast-paced multi-threaded working environment.
22. Industry recognised certifications such as CEH, OSCP, CISSP, CTIA, CPTIA, CRTIA, GCTI or equivalent experience (Preferred).
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you have a disability and would like to apply to one of our UK roles under the Disability Confident Scheme, please notify us by completing the relevant section in our candidate questionnaire. One of our team will reach out to support you through your application process.
Our benefits
There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported.
When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days’ annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance-based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits – including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal. You can read more about our benefits
Our business
Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas – our vectors of growth – focused on our clients’ changing needs. You can find out more about what we do .
An inclusive way of working
Whatever way you like to work, if you have the talent and commitment to join our team, we’d like to hear from you.
At Aberdeen we’ve adopted a ‘blended working’ approach. This approach combines the benefits of face-to-face collaboration, coaching and connecting in our offices with the flexibility of working from home. It enables colleagues to find a balance that works for their roles, their teams, our clients and our business.
, where diverse perspectives drive our actions, is at the core of who we are and what we do.