About this role

Capital One is looking for a talented Cyber Security Threat Intelligence Analyst to join our Active Defense team.

This role plays an integral part in protecting our customers, our associates, and our brand. The team it belongs to helps identify, track, and collect adversarial tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), and indicators of compromise.

The role is very much involved in the fight against threats and by identifying and responding to malpractices such as brand impersonations, spoofed domains, and phishing attempts, it aides with our strides toward program maturity.  Other areas of responsibility are assisting in tactical investigations, operational planning and communicating that information in a meaningful way with partners, stakeholders, and leadership. 

The position requires technical knowledge of network protocols and infrastructure, understanding of cloud infrastructures, and cyber threats to those networks, and applications. We are looking for the ability to work cross-functionally and understanding of how to produce intelligence products to support business requirements that allows us to proactively identify areas for cooperation. We are looking for a candidate with excellent communication skills, which allows for the effective managing or triaging of collection workflows.

This role sits as part of an exciting and dynamic environment and will play a key role in building detections designed to defend Capital One brand, systems and data.

What you’ll do

• Produce intelligence products analyzing cyber adversary trends and the impact to Capital One’s consumer products and defenses

• Proactively monitor, collect and leverage intelligence from external data sources gather intelligence from deep and dark web, and other OSINT sources

• Assist countermeasures development through integration of threat intelligence and operational data.

• Create and iterate on workflows synthesizing data from sources such as malware infections, cyber attack patterns, and closed and open-source intelligence

• Connect with stakeholders; understand their priority needs for collaboration 

What we’re looking forWhat we’re looking for

• Experience producing intelligence products to combat cyber threats or conducting investigations into cybercrime, or advanced persistent threats

• Experience in evaluating cyber adversaries, technical indicators of compromise (IOCs), and cyber tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs)

• Experience with vendors and external resources used to collect cyber intelligence in the financial services space

• Experience collecting against intelligence requirements and applying intelligence cycle principles to cyber threat analysis

• Experience with cloud concepts and resources (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform)

• Experience analyzing attack vectors such as account takeovers, synthetic account creation, malware infections, phishing kits, and session or cookie hijacking

• Experience performing OSINT Social Media research

• Ability to understand computer networking concepts

Where and how you'll work

This is a permanent our Nottingham Head Office.  

We have a hybrid working model, so you’ll be based in our office 3 days a week on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, and can work from home on Monday and Friday.

Many of our associates have flexible working arrangements, and we're open to talking about an arrangement that works for you.

What’s in it for you

• Bring us all this - and you’ll be well rewarded with a role contributing to the roadmap of an organisation committed to transformation

• We offer high performers strong and diverse career progression, investing heavily in developing great people through our Capital One University training programmes (and appropriate external providers)

• Immediate access to our core benefits including pension scheme, bonus, generous holiday entitlement and private medical insurance – with flexible benefits available including season-ticket loans, cycle to work scheme and enhanced parental leave

• Open-plan workspaces and accessible facilities designed to inspire and support you. Our Nottingham head-office has a fully-serviced gym, subsidised restaurant, mindfulness and music rooms. In London, you can heighten your mood with a run on our rooftop running track or an espresso at the Workshop Coffee café

What you should know about how we recruit

We pride ourselves on hiring the best people, not the same people. Building diverse and inclusive teams is the right thing to do and the smart thing to do. We want to work with top talent: whoever you are, whatever you look like, wherever you come from. We know it’s about what you do, not just what you say. That’s why we make our recruitment process fair and accessible. And we offer benefits that attract people at all ages and stages.

We also partner with organisations including the Women in Finance and Race At Work Charters, Stonewall and upReach to find people from every walk of life and help them thrive with us. We have a whole host of internal networks and support groups you could be involved in, to name a few:

• REACH – Race Equality and Culture Heritage group focuses on representation, retention and engagement for associates from minority ethnic groups and allies

• OutFront – to provide LGBTQ+ support for all associates

• Mind Your Mind – signposting support and promoting positive mental wellbeing for all

• Women in Tech – promoting an inclusive environment in tech

• EmpowHER - network of female associates and allies focusing on developing future leaders, particularly for female talent in our industry