NMC Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist

Cyber Threat Intelligence Specialist – Police Digital Service

Permanent full‑time role with a starting salary of £45,000 per annum.

About the role

Join Police Digital Service an NMC Civil Service. This is an opportunity to play your part and protect our company, our customers and our communities from cyber attack. Be part of a dedicated team and get ready to be challenged every day to make the most of your skills and experience. You’ll learn from those around you, and from training and development resources to become even better at what you do. With the best technology at your fingertips, you'll be part of a friendly and flexible working environment where your contribution is always valued.

The National Management Centre provides visibility and control of information risks for Policing. It supports the 24×7×365 nature of the police operations, providing a threat detection and response capability for digital services before, during and after cyber attacks, enabling stakeholders to understand and proactively manage risk across the technology estate at both national and force level.

You’ll be involved with:

• Developing awareness for the policing community of the cyber risks to critical services by continually assessing the threat landscape and informing stakeholders.
• Reporting cyber risks to service, executive, and operational stakeholders for mitigation decisions.
• Limiting the impact of known cyber risks by engaging forces in pre‑incident planning and preparatory activities.
• Constraining attack surfaces through proactive threat intelligence working directly alongside the threat hunting and malware service.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide expertise and support through the use of analytical products to assist mitigation practices at a tactical and operational level.
• Analyse advanced persistent threats including the tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) of attackers.
• Conduct analysis at a tactical or operational level, identifying and using appropriate analytical tools to interpret gaps, patterns, trends, assess threat, risk and harm and make recommendations in support of decision‑making, prioritisation and resource allocation.
• Correlate intelligence from a variety of sources to develop and lead understanding and analysis of contextually relevant threats.
• Lead independent analysis of projects and the development of materials for specific subjects of concern.
• Work proactively to serve the policing community with limited direct oversight or guidance.
• Perform a broad range of tasks, bringing together output from stakeholders within Cyber SOC, Malware, Threat Hunting and Vulnerability teams.
• Prepare and deliver analytical alerts, reports and briefings to stakeholders to provide evidence‑based understanding of the subject matter, including providing advice and guidance.
• Produce actionable threat intelligence from diverse data sources.
• Develop an understanding of the cyber risks facing policing, performing core intelligence tasks focusing on social, cultural and geopolitical context.

What You Need To Succeed In The Role

• Knowledge of current threat landscape including specific awareness of adversarial cyber actors, their TTPs.
• Experience utilising open‑source intelligence and the development of tools to assist with this.
• Experience conducting malware, phishing and SIEM log analysis.
• Knowledge of relevant cyber threat intelligence sources.
• Demonstrated ability to manage customer relationships.
• Proven ability to translate cyber threats to the relevant audience, both verbally and written.
• Ability to produce clear and concise reports and presentations for stakeholders, from technical analysts to management and senior leadership teams.
• Experience in internal and external stakeholder management and engagement.
• Experience working in an intelligence environment, ideally as an intelligence researcher or analyst.
• Ability to work independently within a cyber environment with limited oversight or guidance.
• Experience within an active cyber incident.

Desirable Experience

• 3+ years of experience in an analytical role with specific focus on cyber threats (experience in intelligence and research from other areas specifically military or law enforcement encouraged to apply).
• CREST Registered Threat Intelligence Analyst.
• Demonstrated experience in developing and delivering cybercrime or risk reduction recommendations and/or strategies.
• Completed Intelligence Analysis course (e.g. NIAT, RISC UK or similar).

Benefits

Benefits – Police Digital Service (pds.police.uk)

Diversity, equity and inclusion

We are committed to equal opportunity for all and will not discriminate on any grounds. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible span of experience. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates and people with disabilities.

Working Arrangements

At the NMC, you will benefit from hybrid working, getting the advantages of both face‑to‑face team engagement and home working. NMC employees have the opportunity to work in our new modern office environment for in‑person collaboration, however you will also get the opportunity to work from home 2 days a week. All applicants must be eligible for NPPV3 and SC clearances. Successful applicants will require NPPV3 clearance to have been approved before starting with PDS.