Senior Threat Intelligence Specialist - Uncover Cyber Threats

Protecting one billion people from cyber threats? If you find this proposition more exciting than scary, come on board and grow with us.

Whalebone is a global company working on user-centric cybersecurity products for telcos, ISPs, enterprises, public institutions, and governments that provide millions of everyday internet users unyielding protection from malware, phishing schemes, ransomware, and other malicious digital attacks without the need for them to download anything. Whalebone is headquartered in Brno, Czech Republic.

At this point, Whalebone has 400+ customers in telecommunications and corporate sectors (A1, O2 Telefonica, Tele2, Panasonic, Bauhaus, and many others) around the globe. With nearly 100 team members of multiple nationalities, Whalebone ranked 22nd in Deloitte’s list of fastest-growing companies in Central Europe.

We create cybersecurity products that people can actually use. We protect them against viruses and fraud on the network so that the users do not have to handle anything.
Thanks to this approach, we already protect tens of millions of people worldwide. Become a significant part of an important and ambitious project as a Threat Intelligence Specialist.

🧩Our Tech Stack

• Threat Intelligence team with their data analysis and machine learning use cases mainly rely on Python.
• Various machine learning and deep learning techniques are used throughout the product to identify unknown threats and to help achieve the best possible true/false positive ratio.
• Data for research usually reside in Elasticsearch with Kibana as a frontend and of course our internal scripts for specific analysis.

🔍What will you do

• Analyzing current security trends and their impact on our product and our customers
• Identification of online threats using own analysis, OSINT and cooperation with other security vendors
• Own analysis combines data analysis, machine learning, deep learning and simulation of threats or specific honeypots
• Pursuing real threats online and even engaging some of the attackers if needed
• Sharing the intelligence with the team internally, but also publicly via blog posts, threat reports and optionally conference speeches

Requirements

• Security analyst or threat intelligence background
• Analytical mindset
• Knowledge of common adversary techniques and overview of current threats
• Python scripting and data analysis proficiency
• OSINT experience, ability to proactively pivot on given or found indicators

🎯Nice to have

• Computer networking knowledge especially related to DNS
• Machine/Deep learning
• Data analysis/mining
• Experience with malware analysis or triaging

🚀 Why Will you like to work with us?

• Join our team and enjoy flexible working hours, home office option
• The opportunity to make a difference in the world by protecting people from malware and hackers globally
• You'll have 20+5 vacation days, a rewarding financial package, performance bonuses, and the option to choose ESOP as a benefit
• We value your input and encourage you to share your ideas directly with the CTO or CEO
• We'll provide an open-ended full-time agreement, a laptop, and a cellphone
• Our office is located in the heart of the city