Principal Threat Intelligence Consultant (m/w/d)

Who are we?

It all starts with the mission: NVISO is here to protect European society from potentially devastating cyber attacks! This means we offer cyber security services to private and governmental organizations to help them better prepare for, prevent, detect and respond to cyber security incidents.

All of this is built on four fundamental values that define who we are: We are Proud, We Break Barriers, We Care and No BS!

Tasks

As a Principal Threat Intelligence Consultant (m/w/d) , you will be responsible for executing complex threat intelligence engagements and projects with a high degree of autonomy. You will independently deliver work upon under the direction of clients or the NVISO Threat Intelligence Manager, while acting as a trusted senior advisor to clients.

You will play a key role in managing stakeholder relationships, leading discussions with technical and executive audiences, and ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality threat intelligence services. In parallel, you will support more junior team members, contributing to the professional growth and maturity of the Threat Intelligence team.

The role spans the full breadth of Threat Intelligence services, including strategic, operational, and tactical intelligence, capability building, threat landscapes, and intelligence-driven incident response support. TIBER-EU and TLPT-style assessments form an important part of the role.

Your responsibilities

• Execute threat intelligence engagements and project-related tasks independently, based on guidance from the Threat Intelligence Manager in charge.
• Act as engagement lead or primary analyst on advanced TI engagements, including TIBER-EU, TLPT, and other intelligence-led security assessments.
• Manage stakeholder relationships throughout engagements, serving as the primary threat intelligence point of contact for clients, regulators, and internal teams.
• Coach and mentor junior threat intelligence analysts, providing technical guidance, reviewing deliverables, and supporting their professional development.
• Produce and deliver threat landscape reports (generic and targeted), capability maturity assessments, strategic intelligence briefings, and threat actor analysis tailored to client sectors and risk profiles.
• Conduct dark web monitoring assessments, identifying exposed credentials, leaked data, and digital risks beyond conventional security perimeters.
• Provide threat intelligence support during incident response engagements, including threat actor attribution, TTP analysis, and intelligence-driven containment and remediation recommendations.
• Deliver threat-based briefings and security awareness sessions for managerial and technical audiences, leveraging NVISO's incident response and threat intelligence experience.
• Drive continuous improvement of NVISO's threat intelligence processes, methodologies, and service offerings, ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements and industry best practices.
• Support the Threat Intelligence Manager with service strategy definition, business development activities, and contribution to proposals and client engagement planning.
• Maintain current knowledge of threat landscapes across key sectors, including TTPs of advanced persistent threat actors, emerging attack techniques, and evolving regulatory requirements.
• Support cross-functional collaboration with NVISO's incident response, red team, and SOC teams to provide integrated threat intelligence services.
• Maintain current knowledge of threat landscapes across key sectors, including TTPs of advanced persistent threat actors, emerging attack techniques, and evolving regulatory requirements.
• Support cross-functional collaboration with NVISO's incident response, red team, and SOC teams to provide integrated threat intelligence services.

Requirements

• You hold citizenship in one of the 32 NATO member states.
• 5+ years of experience Cyber Security and at least 3+ years in cyber threat intelligence, including production of intelligence assessments, threat reporting, and client-facing delivery.
• Demonstrated experience delivering threat intelligence for TIBER-EU and/or TLPT assessments within the financial services sector.
• Strong understanding of threat landscapes across financial services, technology, and critical infrastructure sectors, including relevant threat actors, attack patterns, and regulatory requirements.
• Proven experience establishing or improving threat intelligence capabilities, processes, and programs within organizations.
• Strong analytical and research skills, with proficiency in intelligence collection from open-source, dark web, and commercial threat intelligence platforms.
• Expertise in threat actor profiling, TTP analysis, and mapping to frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK, Killchain & Diamond model.
• Experience supporting incident response activities with threat intelligence, including threat actor attribution and intelligence-driven recommendations.
• Proven ability to produce high-quality written intelligence products for technical and executive audiences.
• Strong stakeholder management and coaching skills, with experience presenting to senior executives, regulators, and technical teams, and mentoring junior analysts.
• Self-starter who takes ownership of deliverables and can work independently to execute complex projects under customer or manager direction.
• Language: German and English at C1+ proficiency for client-facing work across DACH.

Your availability

• Standard business hours with occasional flexibility required during active client engagements and incident response support.

Travel

• Some limited travel within DE/AT/CH (~10%) for onsite engagements, workshops, and stakeholder meetings

Benefits

At NVISO, we care. We are committed to offering you a highly competitive remuneration package including financial and non-financial components:

• Working and learning from the best people in the European cyber security industry. We have multiple SANS Instructors working at NVISO, our staff has presented at popular hacking conferences (BlackHat, BruCON, OWASP, etc) and all of our technical staff can acquire deep technical security certifications (GSE, GXPN, GREM, GCFA, OSCP, etc);
• An entrepreneurial and agile company, where you will be stimulated and supported in driving new initiatives (either through internal innovation or by improving our service offering), without losing sight of having fun!
• Regular team-building and fun events;
• Our commitment to coach and counsel you and help you grow; each employee receives a personal coach within the team, whose role is to ensure your well-being and helps you grow in your career!
• A training budget of 10,000 EUR plus 10 days paid time off rolling over two years;
• An annual gross base salary between 91,000 EUR and 118,000 EUR, depending on your experience;
• Flexible working hours and home office possibilities (incl. working abroad options within the EU);
• Reimbursement of Deutschlandticket + BahnCard 50 1st Class;
• Business Bike Leasing;
• Company Pension Scheme;
• 30 holidays.

Disclaimer on the Use of AI Tools in the Application Process

Please be aware that the creation and submission of application documents (e.g. CV, cover letter, case studies, etc.) using AI-powered tools is only permitted to a limited extent .

Our expectations:

Application documents must authentically reflect your own qualifications, personality, and motivation.

The use of AI for supportive purposes (e.g. spell-checking, improving wording) is acceptable.

Fully generated application documents created by AI without personal adaptation or review are not permitted.

Under no circumstances may NVISO information, data, or documents be uploaded to or processed by external AI tools.

We reserve the right to exclude applications from the selection and interview process that are clearly created primarily or exclusively by AI and show no recognizable personal input.

The purpose of this policy is to ensure a fair and transparent recruitment process and to obtain an authentic impression of our applicants.