Threat Intelligence Analyst, SEAR

at  Apple

SUMMARY

Posted: Sep 25, 2024
Weekly Hours: 40
Role Number:200569958
Home Office: Yes
Apple’s Security Engineering & Architecture (SEAR) provides operating system security foundations across all of Apple’s innovative products, including Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. As part of our efforts to protect our users, Apple is looking for a world-class threat intelligence analyst to join a team of security researchers and analysts who work together and cross-functionally to inform efforts to solve security engineering challenges. The success we are striving for is the result of very skilled people working in an environment that cultivates creativity, partnership, and solving old problems in new ways. We are looking for a threat intelligence analyst who is passionate about securing the desktop computing environment, loves macOS, and is committed to driving security investigations and improvements in macOS. At Apple, our mission involves securing and protecting over a billion endpoints; operationalizing threat intelligence into security engineering decisions affecting every layer of the stack; and touching the lives of everyone who interacts with our products. Working for a company whose commitment to user privacy is at the heart of everything it does. Being surrounded by the most creative, passionate, hardworking engineers in the industry. Constantly being challenged to go beyond the norm to find new, innovative ways of solving problems and to make software safer, easier, and more fun to use. You can find all of this in one opportunity, and only at Apple.

DESCRIPTION

You will have a broad set of skills that make you successful as threats continue to evolve, and you will be capable of analyzing cyber threats to our users’ devices. Our environment fosters innovation, rapid solution development, and grants a wide range of autonomy-within which you will be expected to work with security engineers and researchers in order to quickly bring to market new security methods and technologies addressing the complex needs of Apple users.

• Minimum of 4 years experience in threat intelligence or security research.
• Intellectually curious team player with a genuine passion for finding, understanding, and mitigating cyber threats against macOS.
• In-depth understanding of the threat intelligence cycle and cyber operations.
• Experience in analyzing highly-complex threat actor campaigns, including infrastructure, malware, and victim endpoints.
• Demonstrable experience investigating macOS threat activity.
• Proven history of successfully working on solo and group projects in a virtual/remote environment.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelors Degree or Masters in related field or equivalent years of industry related experience

Please refer the Job description for details