Cyber Threat Lead in Hounslow

hackajob is collaborating with British Airways to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role.

A career without limits. As the nation’s flag carrier, we take great pride in connecting Britain with the world and the world with Britain. It’s something we’ve been doing for over 100 years, ever since we launched the world’s first international scheduled air service between London and Paris. This originality has been in our blood since day one. It’s the spirit we share with the people that fly with us, our partners, and our colleagues.

The role reports to the Cyber Threat Intelligence Manager, working with IAG and BA business to ensure BA is identifying, understanding and responding to cyber threats and emerging vulnerabilities.

What You’ll Do

• Leading the effort to identify and report cyber threats relevant to British Airways, covering both tactical and strategic requirements.
• Technical leader for cyber threat identification across BA.
• Support the Cyber Threat Intelligence Manager in active threat management for BA, ensuring timely, specific, and relevant cyber threat information is available to enable decision making.
• Engage with IAG group peers, the wider aviation industry and UK critical infrastructure and government bodies such as NCSC.
• Manage and deliver on threat intelligence requirements and end to end intelligence lifecycle.
• Engage collaboratively and pragmatically with BA/IAG stakeholders to undertake cyber threat assessments, supporting cyber control decision making.
• Leverage available and open source feeds and tools, to track the cyber threats that BA faces and produce finished intelligence products for stakeholders across the organisation.
• Support the Cyber Threat Intelligence and Cyber Incident Managers during cyber incident response activities.
• Support the implementation of the broader BA/IAG Cyber Strategy.

What You’ll Bring To British Airways

• Highly analytical, demonstrating a methodical and structured approach with high attention to detail.
• Good communicator, taking complex technical issues and making them approachable to all stakeholders.
• Experience in threat modelling using frameworks such as STRIDE, PASTA, attack trees (Desirable).
• Ability to remain calm and prioritise under pressure.
• Understanding of incident response methodology.
• Strong understanding of actor methodology including their tactics, techniques and procedures.

Your Experience

• Holding or working towards relevant cyber intelligence certifications e.g., SANS/GIAC (FOR578, FOR589), CREST CPTIA/CRTIA.
• Demonstrable experience in threat intelligence gathering, analysis and reporting.
• Experienced in the use of MITRE ATT&CK, Lockheed Martin Killchain, Diamond model etc.
• Understanding of aviation, transport, or critical infrastructure threat landscape (Desirable).
• Experience in tracking adversary infrastructure through open source or Netflow data (Desirable).

What We Offer

We believe that all the people who work with us should feel valued for the part they play. It’s one of the reasons our rewards go far beyond a competitive salary. From the day you join us, you’ll get access to brilliant staff travel benefits including unlimited basic and premium standby tickets on British Airways flights. You’ll also receive up to 30 discounted ‘Hotline’ airfares per year for yourself, friends, and family.

At British Airways you’ll have the chance to take on new challenges and move forward in a way that feels right for you. We encourage all those who work for us to consider opportunities right across our business to help you develop and progress. We never stand still, and we don’t expect our people to either.

Inclusion & Diversity

At British Airways we all have a part to play in creating an inclusive place to work. Diverse representation among our people is really important to us and we recognise that all our colleagues are uniquely different and bring their own originality, creativity and identity to work. Inclusion and diversity is a key driver of innovation and we’re committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they can be themselves. We’re looking for people from all backgrounds and cultures to join us and be a part of our journey to become a Better BA as we continue to connect Britain with the world and the world with Britain.