Senior Security Intelligence Specialist

🏗 We're Hiring: Senior Security Intelligence Specialist
Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Experience Level: Mid-Level to Senior
Work Arrangement: Fully Remote
About Us
We are a construction-focused organization committed to delivering complex projects through disciplined contract management, commercial excellence, risk control, and collaborative project delivery. Our distributed teams collaborate 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 assets, strengthen operational resilience, and maintain secure project environments. We prioritize proactive risk identification, information security, threat awareness, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement across all business functions.
The Role
We are seeking an experienced Senior Security Intelligence Specialist to lead security intelligence activities, analyze emerging threats, assess potential risks, and provide actionable intelligence that supports organizational security and operational decision-making. The ideal candidate will bring strong expertise in threat intelligence, security risk analysis, intelligence collection, threat actor assessment, incident correlation, and strategic reporting.
This role will focus on identifying emerging security threats, evaluating their relevance to business operations, translating intelligence into practical recommendations, and supporting proactive security measures across the organization. The Senior Security Intelligence Specialist will collaborate with cybersecurity, physical security, risk management, IT, Legal, Compliance, Project Management, and executive leadership teams to strengthen threat preparedness and ensure alignment with applicable United Arab Emirates cybersecurity, privacy, regulatory, contractual, and organizational requirements.
Key Responsibilities
Lead security intelligence activities to identify, assess, and communicate threats that may affect organizational assets, personnel, information, infrastructure, and operations.
Develop and maintain structured intelligence collection plans aligned with organizational risk priorities and business objectives.
Monitor internal and external intelligence sources for emerging cybersecurity threats, physical security risks, criminal activity, and relevant geopolitical developments.
Collect, evaluate, and correlate intelligence from authorized open-source, commercial, internal, and industry-specific sources.
Assess the credibility, reliability, relevance, and timeliness of intelligence information before distributing findings.
Identify emerging threat patterns, adversary behaviors, attack trends, and indicators of potential security incidents.
Conduct threat assessments covering business systems, project environments, remote operations, third-party relationships, and critical business processes.
Analyze threat actors, their motivations, capabilities, targeting preferences, and commonly observed tactics and techniques.
Monitor relevant threat intelligence feeds, security advisories, vulnerability disclosures, and industry alerts.
Evaluate intelligence concerning ransomware, phishing, business email compromise, credential theft, data exfiltration, and other cyber threats.
Assess intelligence related to physical intrusion, theft, sabotage, workplace threats, and other security concerns where relevant to organizational operations.
Identify threats affecting construction sites, project facilities, corporate offices, supply chains, and critical operational assets.
Evaluate the potential impact of regional and international developments on personnel safety, project continuity, supply chain security, and business operations.
Translate technical and nontechnical intelligence into clear, actionable recommendations for relevant stakeholders.
Produce intelligence reports, executive briefings, threat advisories, situational updates, and risk summaries.
Prepare concise assessments that explain the threat, supporting evidence, confidence level, potential consequences, and recommended actions.
Establish appropriate intelligence classification, handling, distribution, and retention procedures.
Ensure sensitive intelligence information is shared only with authorized personnel and approved external parties.
Maintain accurate records of intelligence sources, collection activities, analytical judgments, and reporting outputs.
Apply structured analytical techniques to challenge assumptions, identify information gaps, and reduce the risk of analytical bias.
Distinguish confirmed facts from unverified reporting, analytical assessments, and speculative scenarios.
Develop and maintain threat profiles for relevant adversaries, criminal groups, attack campaigns, and other security threats.
Map observed cyber threat activity to recognized frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK where appropriate.
Correlate threat intelligence with internal security events, vulnerability information, incident reports, and asset inventories.
Work with Security Operations Center teams to improve threat detection, alert prioritization, and incident investigation.
Provide actionable indicators of compromise and contextual intelligence to support detection engineering and incident response.
Support proactive threat hunting by identifying suspicious patterns, adversary behaviors, and potential gaps in security monitoring.
Evaluate whether emerging vulnerabilities and exploits present meaningful risks to the organization's technology environment.
Prioritize intelligence findings according to threat severity, likelihood, exposure, business impact, and available mitigation options.
Support vulnerability management teams by communicating intelligence about actively exploited weaknesses and relevant attack campaigns.
Identify risks associated with third-party providers, contractors, suppliers, technology partners, and other external dependencies.
Conduct intelligence-based assessments of supply chain risks, service disruptions, fraud patterns, and potential malicious activity.
Support due diligence and risk reviews by providing appropriately sourced intelligence on relevant entities and threat exposures.
Coordinate with cybersecurity, physical security, and enterprise risk teams to integrate intelligence into existing risk management processes.
Contribute to security risk registers, threat scenarios, risk assessments, and business continuity planning.
Support the development of threat-informed security strategies, protective measures, and incident preparedness plans.
Identify intelligence gaps and recommend improvements to collection methods, analytical capabilities, and reporting coverage.
Establish measurable performance indicators for intelligence timeliness, source quality, analytical usefulness, stakeholder engagement, and actionability.
Maintain awareness of relevant regulatory obligations, contractual commitments, privacy requirements, and organizational security policies.
Ensure intelligence collection and analysis are conducted lawfully, ethically, and within authorized access boundaries.
Coordinate with Legal and Compliance teams when intelligence activities involve personal information, sensitive records, or potential legal implications.
Support incident response teams by providing threat context, adversary assessments, and intelligence related to ongoing investigations.
Participate in post-incident reviews to identify intelligence gaps, missed warning indicators, and opportunities for improved early detection.
Develop and maintain intelligence playbooks, analytical templates, collection procedures, and escalation criteria.
Automate appropriate intelligence collection, enrichment, correlation, and reporting workflows using approved tools and platforms.
Evaluate intelligence platforms and data sources to improve coverage, analytical efficiency, and operational relevance.
Prepare regular intelligence summaries for senior management, highlighting significant threats, emerging trends, and recommended priorities.
Deliver targeted threat briefings to project leaders, technical teams, security personnel, and other relevant stakeholders.
Provide guidance and mentoring to junior analysts on intelligence collection, source evaluation, analytical tradecraft, and report writing.
Promote collaboration between intelligence analysts, security operations personnel, investigators, and risk management professionals.
Monitor the effectiveness of intelligence-driven security actions and recommend adjustments based on outcomes and new information.
Maintain professional objectivity, discretion, and analytical independence when evaluating sensitive security issues.
Perform additional security intelligence, threat assessment, risk analysis, reporting, and security improvement duties as reasonably required.

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