Team Leader Role
Lab 1 is a fast growing cybersecurity startup, which finds and interprets compromised data.
Lab 1’s AI platform analyses the full corpus of exposed corporate data in near real time, providing customers with the assurance that they’ll know the unknown and reducing the risk, cost and anxiety associated with exposed data across entire supply chains.
The role provides flexibility in work location, with the majority of staff working from home with occasional meetings in London and Norwich. The role will be remunerated through a salary and, after a qualifying period you will be granted a meaningful share in the company through an options grant.
The Role
The Team Leader role is ideally suited for experienced operational cyber analysts with experience of managing individuals and teams. It is ideally suited to those who desire to apply their skills in their day to day work as a subject matter expert, whilst also managing and developing a team of analysts. Therefore, this role has three main accountable components; delivery management, line management and expert contribution.
Delivery ManagementThis role is responsible for ensuring the delivery of the 3 main goals of the team, namely; Data Acquisition and Quality, Provision of Intelligence and Customer Facing Activities (including being the 1st line of support for our customers)
Line ManagementThe line management accountability sees the day to day personnel management of the Analyst Team to deliver on the company goals for the team, including equal distribution of tasks, intelligence operations, issue/resolution management, staff development and the smooth delivery of analysts services to all stakeholders with corresponding management metrics.
Expert Contribution: The expert contribution accountability sees the authentic delivery of high quality analyst work as an experienced industry professional. This includes day to day dark web investigatory tradecraft, covert dark web data downloads, expert technical analysis, report writing in recognised industry formats along with recognition and adherence to professional frameworks and standards throughout.
The role also includes significant cyber intelligence research and analysis for the creation of new security tools, whitepapers and blog articles for publication.
Key Accountabilities
Manage a team which performs open source threat identification and collection activities on deep, dark and open web to support customer exposure assessment requirements.
Drive forward with the team with continuous improvement to ensure that the Team’s tools, processes and technologies are not only fit for purpose, but also are a competitive advantage. This is achieved using a combination of Lab 1's automated platform, proprietary and open source tools.
Key accountabilities also include:
- Team Leader management of the Analyst Team across the three accountable areas of Delivery Management, Line Management and Expert Contribution, being the advocate and spokesperson for the Team.
- Customer facing client success to articulate and explain exposed data events, providing insights and recommendations to customers and other stakeholders. This will include being responsible for responding to all Customer facing queries within 24 hours and answering questions about our data and platform
- Staying abreast of all recent cyber attacks with an understanding of their threat actors and corresponding Tools, Tactics and Procedures.
- Identify credible, new intelligence and perform threat assessments to emerging threat actors and the data they collect.
- Provide subject matter expertise to support wider company initiatives, such as writing short blog articles and supporting technical research for white papers and marketing collateral.
- Responsible for maintaining mature Operational Security (OpSec) in the application of technical tools and procedures for analysts and organisational safety.
- Create written and verbal data exposure assessments, reports and summaries for customer and research articles.
- Develop and present key findings to senior technical and non-technical leadership.
- Establish and develop links with other threat analysts within the cyber intelligence community.
Skills, Experience & Competencies
- MSc in a relevant subject, such as Threat Intelligence or Information Security.
- Previous Team Leader management experience.
- Experience with outreach and working within the wider Security community.
- Demonstrable understanding and experience with Linux and Open Source security tools are essential, preference given for active open source committers or security tools writers in any language.
- Experience in analysing compromised artefacts, such as databases, documents, spreadsheets.
- Good understanding of indicators of compromise (IOC), threat hunting methodology, intelligence lifecycle and the application of open source tools.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to effectively articulate complex technical terms to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Be able to adapt to a flexible working model, such as attending conference calls, meetings outside of normal office hours and occasionally travelling.
Advantageous:
- Willingness and ability to gain UK SC security clearance.
- Languages other than English. Russian, Turkish and Mandarin are particularly valuable.
We are interested in candidates who value:
- Act with integrity within a trusted role.
- Team working and collaboration.
- Supporting the organisation’s key vision and mission.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £60,000.00-£80,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Work from home
Schedule:
Work Location: Hybrid remote in London
Reference ID: JD1002
Expected start date: 10/10/2024
