Senior Analyst I – FNSS

TS/SCI Clearance Required

Are you an experienced threat hunter who enjoys helping others navigate the cyber threat landscape while being a part of a global team that covers all corners of the world?

Flashpoint is the pioneering leader in threat data and intelligence. We empower commercial enterprises and government agencies to decisively confront complex security challenges, reduce risk, and improve operational resilience amid fast-evolving threats. Through the Flashpoint Ignite platform, we deliver unparalleled depth, breadth, and speed of data from highly relevant sources enriched by human insights. Our solutions span cyber threat intelligence, vulnerability intelligence, geopolitical risk, physical security, fraud, and brand protection. The result: our customers safeguard critical assets, avoid financial loss, and protect lives. Discover more at flashpoint.io

We have a role for you if, you:

• Are able to effectively execute tasks and responsibilities independently while collaborating with other team members on more complex tasks.
• Possess an advanced understanding of cyber threat groups, internet slang, and Chinese geopolitics, including fluency in the Chinese language.
• Have the ability to read both traditional and simplified Chinese characters.
• Have an understanding of scripting languages and command line interfaces and experience using these tools to manipulate and format large datasets.
• Have in-depth experience leveraging APIs to complement analysis workflows.
• Have experience leveraging global internet mapping tools to identity vulnerabilities.
• Possess an advanced understanding of network and telecommunications technologies, electromagnetic spectrum, topologies, and vulnerabilities.
• Have detailed knowledge of communications platforms in which cyber threat actors operate and a willingness to engage.
• Have experience identifying cyber and physical vulnerabilities and creating vulnerability assessments.
• Have a strong ability to produce accurate analyses and key judgments for finished intelligence reports.
• Possess a high level of motivation, a positive attitude, and a willingness to be a self-starter and learn new skills.
• Have strong communication and presentation skills and a willingness to use these skills to communicate ideas, findings, and analyses to wider audiences.
• Have experience in cross-functional analytic teams in a time-sensitive environment.

What you will get to do on our team

• Support client deliverables and intelligence requirements within set deadlines.
• Produce quality analytic judgments that provide additional context to clients.
• Leverage Flashpoint proprietary tools and systems to support assigned tasks.
• Leverage external tools to synthesize data and enhance analysis/alerting services.
• Synthesize raw data to identify the credibility of information and deduce relevance to the client base.
• Create keywords/patterns to highlight high signal data within Flashpoint tools.
• Propose new content for blog posts, with supervisor review.
• Safely navigate virtual environments for supporting assigned tasks, following Flashpoint rules of engagement.
• Act as lead for internal subject matter expert projects and initiatives
• Support intelligence requirements gathering and identify collection gaps for respective teams.
• Maintain a nuanced understanding of Flashpoint’s collections systems operations.
• Follow established internal procedures for closing collection gaps.
• Nominate new collection sources in support of Flashpoint collections.
• Peer reviews finished intelligence products for analytical accuracy.
• Present at community calls, document team-specific processes/procedures, and facilitate job-specific guidance for new and junior team members.

What you will achieve 

Within 30 days

• You will have been fully onboarded and integrated into a team of professional intelligence analysts and assigned a mentor to guide you through your initial journey at Flashpoint. Your team will have provided you with access, resources, and training necessary to begin tackling deliverables.

Within 60 days

• You will have become familiarized with all of Flashpoints processes and become comfortable with taking on additional tasks and deliverables.

By 90 days

• You will have carried out your own investigations in support of intelligence requirements and drafted and published the findings from these initial investigations within Flashpoint intelligence platform.
• You will have become familiar with teams outside of your own team and begun building working relationships to assist you to become successful in your career.
• You will have become completely comfortable with handling day-to-day deliverables and tasks on your own and become confident in your abilities to work independently or on a team.

To be successful in this role, you will need

• Chinese language fluency.
• In-depth knowledge of Chinese geopolitics.
• Expertise in Open Source and Cyber investigations.
• Experience with scripting languages and task automation.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.

Base Pay Range: Salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Individual pay is determined by state, work location, and additional factors including job-related skills, experience, specialized skills or certifications, and relevant education or training. This position is eligible for incentive bonus compensation, and medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and 401K. Your recruiter can share more about the specific details of the compensation and benefits package during the interview process.

Why Flashpoint is a Great Place to Work:

• Diversity.  Flashpoint is committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, inclusion, belonging, and equity. We recognize that diversity is key to achieving our vision. We believe that every person and their experiences contribute to building a work environment and products and services that will change the world.
• Culture and Belonging.  Our company’s culture isn’t something you join, it’s something you build and shape, and each person's unique backgrounds and experiences contribute to who Flashpoint is and will become.  You will have ample opportunities to connect with coworkers through various communication channels and company-funded virtual events: book clubs, happy hours, committees, DIBE discussion group, Donut mixers, local team member meetups and much more.
• Perks. Flashpoint understands that personal wellness is one of the keys to a happy, healthy and productive work environment.  That’s why we also prioritize health and wellness perks like gym reimbursements, expensed lunches, cool cultural initiatives and inclusive employee events.
• Career Growth. Flashpoint is invested in the growth of our team members and understands that frequent, two-way feedback is critical to that growth. We encourage regular one-on-ones with your manager, a regular schedule of performance reviews, learning and development opportunities, and guidance through formalized career paths; whether that be towards being a great manager, being a great individual contributor, or a lateral move to gain breadth of knowledge and experience.

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