Threat Intelligence Analyst

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Risk Intelligence Analysts play a key role in the interpretation, transformation, and dissemination of intelligence crucial to the protection of Amazon customers and partners from fraudulent actors. Intelligence Analysts provide Amazon teams with information about targeting and threat landscape, and use information derived from all intelligence disciplines to determine changes in actor activity, capabilities, intent, and resources.

Your role will focus on the coordination, analysis, processing, and distribution of finished strategic, operational, and tactical intelligence. Partnered with internal fraud investigators, you will quickly and discretely provide intelligence to assist in decision making and actively thwart emergent and current threats targeting our customers. Specific duties of this role include: processing incoming information, reports, and messages; determining the significance and reliability of incoming information; analyze exploits and tools and translate analysis into actionable intelligence; preparation of all-source intelligence products; establishing and maintaining systematic, cross-reference intelligence records and files; integrating incoming information with current intelligence and investigations; assist in driving the maturation and efficacy of Risk Intelligence discipline by continual improvement of operational practices.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Experience in one or more of the following fields of work: National security, military, federal intelligence, law enforcement, criminology, and/or foreign areas and language
· Familiarity with foreign-language media sources, both traditional and non-traditional
· Multilingual with preference for Russia and/or Chinese
· Work or living experience abroad or of an international scope
· Experience in investigating fraud, abuse and eCrime
· Experience with e-commerce or online payment fraud
· Knowledge about retail and social media ecosystems
· Experience in managing vendors and ensuring effective project execution
· Excellent verbal and written communication skills
· Outstanding attention to detail and accuracy
· Meets/exceeds Amazon’s leadership principles requirements for this role
· Meets/exceeds Amazon’s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Minority / Women / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation / Age.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· BS degree in Computer Science, MIS, IT, Information Security, Computer Engineering, Statistics, or 5+ years’ equivalent technology experience
· 3-5 years of experience in Cyber Threat Intelligence research and analysis
· Proven experience of web protocols and an in-depth knowledge of Linux/Unix tools and architecture
· Demonstrated experience performing open source research on a variety of topics