Senior Cyber Security Analyst - Cyber Threat Intelligence (4626)

Job summary

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Senior Cyber Security Analyst specialising in Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) to join the Digital Risk & Security branch within Digital Delivery & Change. This role plays a key part in identifying, analysing, and communicating cyber threats that could impact Social Security Scotland’s digital services, systems, and sensitive information.

As a senior member of the Security Operations function, you will support the delivery and continuous improvement of the organisation’s Cyber Threat Intelligence capability. You will work closely with security teams, technical specialists, and stakeholders to gather, assess, and share actionable threat intelligence that helps strengthen defensive measures, reduce cyber risk, and support informed decision-making across a cloud-first environment.

You will contribute to the operational delivery and development of key Cyber Threat Intelligence services, including:

• Threat Intelligence Collection and Analysis
• Threat Hunting and Threat Detection Support
• Threat Actor and Campaign Tracking
• Open-Source and Commercial Intelligence Monitoring
• Indicators of Compromise (IoC) Management
• Vulnerability and Threat Correlation
• Strategic, Operational and Tactical Intelligence Reporting
• Threat Intelligence Sharing and Collaboration
• Emerging Threat and Risk Assessment
• Intelligence Support for Incident Response and Security Operations

The role requires strong analytical, investigative, and problem-solving skills, with experience of threat intelligence methodologies, cyber threat landscapes, and industry-recognised frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK. You will be responsible for assessing complex information from multiple intelligence sources, identifying patterns, and producing timely, actionable intelligence to support risk-based decision-making. The successful candidate will be confident working both independently and collaboratively, applying professional judgement to develop evidence-based assessments, recommendations, and decisions within their area of responsibility. You will take ownership of investigations and intelligence activities, demonstrating the initiative and confidence to act on findings where appropriate, while recognising when matters require escalation. You will also contribute to the continuous improvement of intelligence-led security practices and help ensure the organisation maintains an effective understanding of evolving cyber threats.

If you are passionate about cyber threat intelligence and want to play a key role in protecting critical public services and citizen data, we would welcome your application.

Cyber Security Analysts are responsible for protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information and information systems used by government and Partners Across Government.

• Explains the purpose of and provides advice and guidance on the application and operation of elementary physical, procedural and technical security controls.
• Performs security risk, vulnerability assessments, and business impact analysis for medium complexity information systems.
• Investigates suspected attacks and manages security incidents including use of forensics where appropriate.
• Maintains security administration processes and checks that all requests for support are dealt with according to agreed procedures.
• Specifies requirements for environment, data, resources and tools. Interprets, executes and documents complex test scripts using agreed methods and standards.

Job description

Responsibilities

• Gather, analyse and share cyber threat intelligence from a range of sources to identify cyber threats, vulnerabilities and emerging risks affecting the organisation.
• Produce and deliver cyber threat reports, briefings and risk assessments for technical teams, senior leaders and key stakeholders, providing clear recommendations to improve cyber resilience.
• Provide advice and guidance on cyber security controls, helping teams understand and apply security best practice.
• Communicate cyber security risks and issues clearly to managers, stakeholders and colleagues across the organisation.
• Investigate security incidents and breaches, using forensic techniques where appropriate, and support the implementation of corrective actions.
• Carry out security risk assessments, vulnerability assessments and business impact analyses to help identify and manage cyber risks.
• Develop security test cases based on identified risks, threats and common vulnerabilities.
• Keep up to date with the latest cyber security threats, attack methods and industry developments.
• Provide specialist cyber security advice and support, applying expertise to complex security challenges and projects.

Person specification

Success Profiles
We use an assessment framework called ‘Success Profiles’ which lists the elements we test and provides detailed descriptions of each. Find out more about the framework here.

For this post, the following Success Profile elements will be assessed:

Experience:

1. Experience of delivering or reviewing cyber security risk assessments for enterprise IT systems using recognised methodologies, incorporating threat intelligence from a range of sources to assess emerging threats, vulnerabilities and organisational risk.
   

2. Experience of conducting and developing security investigations, threat hunting activities or vulnerability assessments across enterprise environments, selecting and applying appropriate tools, techniques and methodologies to identify vulnerabilities, malicious activity and indicators of compromise.

Behaviours:

• Seeing the Bigger Picture - Level 3
  
• Communicating and Influencing - Level 3

You can find out more about Success Profiles Behaviours here.

Technical / Professional Skills:

This role is aligned to Senior Cyber Security Analyst within the Government Digital and Data Profession.

These skills will be tested during the Technical Assessment if you are successful at sift stage. They will not be assessed at application stage. Please review the following to understand the skill expectations .

Benefits

Annual Leave - You will receive 25 days annual leave on joining us. This will increase to 30 days after four full years of service. You will also have 11.5 public and privilege days of leave every year. We also offer Flexi-time. Any extra hours you've worked can be taken as leave when suitable.

A Civil Service Pension - This job comes with a Civil Service pension. New joiners to the Civil Service will join a career average pension scheme as standard. Read more here - www.civilservicepensionscheme.org.uk.

Healthy work life balance - We can offer the possibility of full-time, part-time, term-time, and job shares. We also encourage flexible working.

Discounts - You can enjoy a vast range of retail, travel and lifestyle discounts through our benefit scheme.

Personal support for you - Our Employee Assistance Programme gives you confidential, independent information and guidance 24/7.

Volunteering special leave - Up to six days paid special leave a year for volunteering. We support our staff to help