Vulnerability & Threat Analyst (Cheltenham, UK)
Core
Analyze large volumes of threat intelligence data to identify, validate, and confirm exploited vulnerabilities, active exploits, threat actors, malicious infrastructure, and indicators of compromise (IOCs) to help security teams act faster.
Role type
Vulnerability & Threat Intelligence Analyst
Builds
Early, high-quality exploit intelligence, deep asset correlation, and contextual insights for security teams
Domain
Cybersecurity / Threat Intelligence
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure
Required skills
Analyzing threat intelligence sources, evaluating exploit PoCs, familiarity with scripting languages, experience with OSINT tools, understanding of IOCs, assessing source credibility, understanding CVEs (assignment/validation/scoring), working with structured data formats (JSON), familiarity with EOL software data, experience with developer/security tooling (VS Code), familiarity with package ecosystems (NPM, NuGet, PyPI)
Preferred skills
Python scripting, prompt engineering
Technologies
JSON, VS Code, NPM, NuGet, PyPI
Responsibilities
Identify and confirm exploited vulnerabilities (KEVs), Identify and confirm exploits and proof-of-concepts (PoCs), Identify threat actors, Botnets and Ransomware campaigns, Identify malicious hosts, domains and infrastructure, Validate accuracy and credibility of sources and findings, Assess evidence of real-world exploitation, Maintain structured, high-quality intelligence outputs
Seniority
Individual Contributor