Senior Threat Intelligence Specialist

We're Hiring: Senior Threat Intelligence SpecialistLocation: United Arab Emirates (Remote)Employment Type: Full-TimeExperience Level: Mid-Level to SeniorWork Arrangement: Fully RemoteAbout UsWe are a construction-focused organization committed to delivering complex projects through operational excellence, effective risk management, secure technology infrastructure, and collaborative project delivery. Our distributed teams work across Project Management, Construction, Engineering, Procurement, Commercial, Legal, Finance, Human Resources, Design, Quality, HSE, Consultants, Contractors, Suppliers, Logistics, Administration, Information Technology, and Executive Leadership to protect business-critical information, maintain operational resilience, and support secure project delivery. As our digital environment expands across enterprise systems, cloud platforms, project sites, remote workforces, and third-party business relationships, understanding the evolving cyber threat landscape is essential to protecting organizational assets. We value professionals who combine intelligence analysis, technical investigation, strategic thinking, and proactive risk management to anticipate threats and provide actionable insights that strengthen our security posture. The RoleWe are seeking an experienced Senior Threat Intelligence Specialist to lead and enhance the organization's cyber threat intelligence capabilities. The successful candidate will collect, analyze, validate, and disseminate intelligence concerning cyber adversaries, emerging attack techniques, malicious infrastructure, vulnerabilities, threat campaigns, and potential risks affecting the organization. This role will focus on strategic, operational, and tactical threat intelligence, adversary profiling, threat hunting support, intelligence-driven detection engineering, external threat monitoring, and cyber risk assessment. The specialist will collaborate with Security Operations, Incident Response, Vulnerability Management, Network Security, Endpoint Security, Cloud Security, Identity and Access Management, Risk, Legal, and other relevant stakeholders to translate intelligence into practical security improvements and informed business decisions. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical capabilities, hands-on experience with threat intelligence platforms and investigation tools, a solid understanding of attacker behaviors, and the ability to communicate complex intelligence findings clearly to both technical teams and executive leadership.

Key Responsibilities
1. Cyber Threat Intelligence Collection and AnalysisDevelop and maintain structured cyber threat intelligence collection processes aligned with organizational security priorities and business risks. Collect threat information from approved intelligence platforms, commercial intelligence providers, open-source intelligence (OSINT), security advisories, industry reports, vendor disclosures, and trusted information-sharing communities. Analyze information concerning threat actors, malware families, ransomware groups, advanced persistent threats, cybercrime operations, and emerging attack campaigns. Evaluate the credibility, reliability, relevance, and timeliness of intelligence sources before using them to support security decisions. Correlate information from multiple sources to identify relationships between threat actors, attack infrastructure, vulnerabilities, and observed campaigns. Distinguish verified intelligence from unconfirmed reporting, assumptions, and low-confidence indicators. Assess the potential impact of identified threats on the organization's technology environment, business operations, geographic footprint, and third-party relationships. Maintain structured intelligence records covering indicators, adversary techniques, campaign timelines, affected technologies, confidence levels, and recommended actions. Identify intelligence gaps and recommend collection priorities to improve visibility into relevant threats. Establish repeatable analytical procedures to improve the consistency, accuracy, and usefulness of intelligence products. Maintain awareness of developments in cybercrime, state-sponsored activity, ransomware, cyber espionage, and other relevant threat categories.2. Strategic Threat IntelligenceAssess long-term cyber threat trends that may affect the organization's business operations, strategic objectives, technology investments, and risk exposure. Prepare strategic intelligence assessments explaining emerging threats, adversary motivations, likely targets, and potential business consequences. Evaluate geopolitical, economic, technological, and industry developments that may influence cyber threat activity. Identify potential risks associated with critical infrastructure, construction projects, engineering environments, supply chains, and geographically distributed operations. Analyze how changes in the threat landscape may affect confidentiality, integr