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Ascension Executive Recruitment

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11 - 50 employees

🎯 Recruiter

Recruitment • Human Resources • Executive Search

Ascension Executive Recruitment is a specialist brand placing senior candidates across a range of industries. The company focuses on recruiting for roles such as C-Suite, Director, Head of Function, and Senior Management positions. With a global reach in the Irish and international markets, Ascension has experience in handling confidential campaigns and matching clients with suitable candidates. Their thorough screening and interview process ensures that only qualified candidates are presented to clients, emphasizing quality, transparency, and commitment to equal opportunity.

📋 Description

• Collect, pivot, and analyze multi-source telemetry—including OSINT, commercial feeds, deep/dark web forums, and internal technical logs—to profile threat actors, track localized and global cyber campaigns, and map adversary TTPs directly to the MITRE ATT&CK framework. • Manage, tune, and optimize the Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) to ingest, score, and deduplicate IOCs, collaborating with SIEM/SOAR and Detection Engineering teams to translate threat trends into actionable YARA, Sigma, and SIEM rules. • Partner with security teams to design and execute hypothesis-based threat hunting scopes and conduct retroactive hunts across data lakes and internal security platforms utilizing newly identified indicators and zero-day vulnerability intelligence. • Provide real-time, context-driven intelligence support during active security incidents, delivering critical briefings on attacker infrastructure, capabilities, and intent to the Incident Response (IR), SOC, and DevSecOps teams. • Synthesize complex, abstract technical data into high-impact threat assessments, flash reports, and threat actor profiles ("baseball cards"), contextualizing technical risks into actionable operational insights for both technical stakeholders and executive leadership.

🎯 Requirements

• High School diploma equivalency with 2 years of cumulative experience OR Associate's degree/Bachelor's degree OR 4 years of applicable cumulative job specific experience required. • Advanced proficiency in developing automation scripts (e.g., Python, PowerShell) to streamline CTI workflows, automated enrichment, data parsing, and tool/API integration. • Hands-on experience with specialized external threat landscape and enrichment tools (e.g., DomainTools, Intel 471, Maltego, or VirusTotal Enterprise). • Active advanced security or threat intelligence certifications, such as GIAC Cyber Threat Intelligence (GCTI), Certified Threat Intelligence Analyst (CTIA), or GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst (GCFA).

🏖️ Benefits

• Paid time off (PTO) • Various health insurance options & wellness plans • Retirement benefits including employer match plans • Long-term & short-term disability • Employee assistance programs (EAP) • Parental leave & adoption assistance • Tuition reimbursement • Ways to give back to your community