About Careertakes

👉 Important disclosure: Careertakes is a third-party recruiting platform supporting this hiring process. If selected, you will be employed directly by our client, Financial Services (Credit Union).

Applicants for this role may also receive access to additional matched opportunities through the Careertakes platform.

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What You’ll Do

Confidential Client is seeking a Cyber Threat Analyst to operationalize threat intelligence and support threat‑informed defense activities. This role triages intelligence, enriches indicators, maps adversary behavior to frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK, and supports detection engineering, threat hunting, SOC investigations, and adversary emulation (purple team) exercises.

• Collect, analyze, and triage tactical and operational cyber threat intelligence from internal, open‑source, government, industry, and commercial sources.
• Operate and continuously improve the Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) to ensure intelligence is actionable across cybersecurity, fraud, and risk teams.
• Enrich and contextualize indicators of compromise (IOCs) for use in detection and response workflows.
• Monitor emerging threats, vulnerabilities, malware families, and threat actor activity relevant to the client and the financial services sector.
• Map operational intelligence to MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques to inform detection engineering, threat hunting, purple team exercises, and control assessments.
• Produce finished intelligence for both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Support adversary emulation and purple team campaigns by researching threat actors, techniques, and intelligence requirements to build realistic test scenarios.
• Support SOC investigations by identifying relevant indicators and adversary behaviors.
• Provide threat analysis for Third‑Party Risk Management (TPRM) and the Fraud Operations team (e.g., account takeover, phishing, BEC, synthetic identity, payment fraud).
• Monitor and respond to online impersonation, counterfeiting, infringement, and other malicious activities that could harm the organization.
• Contribute to tabletop exercises (TTX) through scenario research, participant coordination, and after‑action documentation.

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Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (4‑year) in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or a related field — OR 2 years of directly relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
• 0+ years professional experience; candidates with ~2 years in cyber threat intelligence, offensive security, threat hunting, detection engineering, or related fields are preferred.
• Familiarity with threat intelligence sources (open‑source, commercial, government) and basic IOC enrichment.
• Basic understanding of malware analysis, attack techniques, and defensive controls.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to produce clear intelligence products for technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

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Preferred Qualifications & Skills

• Security+ or other foundational cybersecurity certification preferred.
• Experience with Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIPs) and/or SIEMs.
• Exposure to scripting (Python) for enrichment, automation, or analysis.
• Experience mapping detections to MITRE ATT&CK.
• Background in threat hunting, adversary emulation, or purple team exercises.
• Military cybersecurity experience or equivalent operational background is a plus.

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Compensation & Benefits

• Typical hiring range: $69,600 to $108,300 annually. Actual compensation will be determined by experience, skills, and knowledge in accordance with applicable law.
• Benefits include health, vision, dental, 401(k) with employer match, annual performance bonus, paid parental leave, employee discount programs, paid personal/sick days, 11 paid holidays, education reimbursement.
• Hybrid work: work from home up to 3 days per week (role labeled remote‑eligible).

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Working Conditions & Compliance

• This role supports confidential client operations in the financial services (credit union) sector and requires adherence to applicable federal and state laws and client policies (e.g., privacy, Bank Secrecy Act compliance where applicable).
• The duties listed are representative but not exhaustive; responsibilities may be adjusted as business needs evolve.

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Keywords & Candidate Fit

This posting is optimized for candidates searching for Cyber Threat Analyst roles in Chicago, IL, with experience in threat intelligence, MITRE ATT&CK mapping, threat hunting, IOC enrichment, Python scripting, and SOC investigations.

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Equal Opportunity & Hiring Transparency

Careertakes and our client are Equal Opportunity Employers committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We prohibit discrimination or harassment of any kind. To support a fair and efficient hiring process, AI tools may be used to assist with application review or resume screening. These tools do not replace human decision-making. Final hiring decisions are made by people.

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