Cyber Intelligence Senior Associate

Join our elite Cybersecurity Intelligence team and be at the forefront of innovative security strategies. In this dynamic role, you’ll harness cutting-edge technology and intelligence to protect our digital landscape, making a real-world impact on global cybersecurity. Your expertise will shape the future of secure digital operations, safeguarding critical assets and fortifying our cyber defenses.

As a Cybersecurity Intelligence Senior Associate in Cybersecurity & Tech Controls, Intelligence Operations, you will be an integral member of a team that safeguards the firm’s digital assets and infrastructure from cyber threats. Utilizing your extensive knowledge of cybersecurity, you will proactively identify and assess global and industry-specific attack vectors, emerging trends, and potential risks. Your expertise in threat assessment, intelligence analysis, and security research are vital for providing insights and recommendations to enhance the firm’s security posture and protect its clients. By collaborating with cross-functional teams and deeply analyzing the threat landscape, your insights will significantly inform and shape JPMorgan Chase’s cybersecurity strategy.

Job responsibilities

• Implement proactive threat intelligence strategies using advanced analytics and emerging technologies to identify and mitigate risks
• Develop custom threat hunts for specific threat indicators in large data sets using data analysis tools or programming languages
• Enhance threat detection and response capabilities, staying current with cybersecurity trends, sharing insights, and implementing best practices
• Hunt and track organized groups of threat actors using open and closed source tools
• Maintain detailed threat actor profiles on adversaries of interest/relevance to the firm, covering tactics, techniques and procedures, intent, goals and strategic objectives
• Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, sharing threat intelligence and best practices to achieve operational goals and improve cybersecurity operations

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or related disciplines, or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of experience in cyber threat intelligence or other relevant experience in data-intensive investigative disciplines
• Data acumen – ability to efficiently interrogate large amount of data, and extract intelligence from semi- or un-structured data. This includes automating data collection and processing using analytical tools and/or scripting languages (e.g. Python).
• Adoption of an always-improving and efficient mindset; leveraging repeatable query syntax or automating repeatable security tasks
• Demonstrated knowledge or keen interest in prominent cyber threat actor groups, campaigns and TTPs
• Experience employing objective analysis and effectively communicating (written and verbal) findings to both technical and non-technical audiences

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Having technical curiosity towards all things Cyber; always experimenting, always innovating
• Experience in implementing software systems for big data collection, ingestion, and processing
• Experience in the intelligence community / an international institution conducting cyber or security / intelligence related work, that includes direct use of the intelligence lifecycle, intelligence requirements, etc.
• Experience in advanced threat hunting, security research, and Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) for risk identification and assessment

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.