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IOG is one of the world's pre-eminent blockchain infrastructure research and engineering companies.
Senior Open Source Intelligence Analyst – Python Focused
Location
United States
Posted
176 days ago
Salary
$120K - $135K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Open Source Intelligence Analyst – Python Focused
Input Output (IOHK)
• Collecting, evaluating, and interpreting complex open-source data to support proactive threat identification and trend analysis. • Identifying analytical pivot points, connecting disparate data sets, and carrying intelligence investigations from initial collection through to final assessment. • Scraping and analyzing information from niche and hard-to-access online environments to identify, assess, and contextualize security-relevant threats. • Developing and maintaining Python-based scraping tools and automation scripts targeting open-source platforms. • Collect, clean, and structure large datasets from diverse online sources. • Designing and implementing ETL workflows, including metadata tagging and automated data validation. • Normalizing and harmonizing collected data for seamless integration across analytic tools and internal intelligence systems. • Identifying emerging threat actors, narratives, and patterns relevant to executive security. • Conducting continuous online monitoring for indicators of physical threats or emerging security trends. • Producing clear, actionable intelligence deliverables for protective operations.
Job Requirements
- Certifications or formal training in the Intelligence Cycle, OSINT tradecraft, Python programming, or related disciplines are preferred. Relevant professional experience may be accepted in lieu of formal credentials. A Python proficiency assessment will be included as part of the selection process.
- Minimum 5 years of professional experience in Intelligence/OSINT/Protective Intelligence.
- Strong analytic writing skills with the ability to produce concise and operationally relevant intelligence products.
- Familiarity with threat actor behaviors, protest dynamics, doxxing tactics, and other security-relevant online activity.
- Working knowledge of OPSEC best practices in intelligence collection.
- Experience working in a distributed or remote environment, including collaboration across time zones and secure data-sharing practices.
- Willingness and ability to travel domestically or internationally in support of special assignments or executive movements (valid passport preferred).
- Proficiency in Python with demonstrated experience in building and maintaining scraping frameworks (e.g., BeautifulSoup, Scrapy, Selenium, Playwright, or equivalent).
- Proven ability to identify and monitor niche or hard-to-reach online ecosystems.
- Experience with data processing, enrichment, and storage (e.g., regex, JSON manipulation, APIs, database handling, PostgreSQL).
- Prior experience in a corporate protective intelligence, executive security, or government security environment.
- Experience integrating Python-based collection pipelines into intelligence platforms.
- Familiarity with foreign language sources and/or language models for multilingual data exploitation.
- Develop and maintain analytic tools, dashboards, and interfaces that enhance data visualization, querying, and integration with internal systems.
- Contribute to user interface and user experience (UI/UX) design for internally developed tools to improve accessibility and analyst efficiency.
- Evaluate emerging technologies, datasets, and platforms/vendors for relevance, applicability, and integration into existing protective intelligence workflows.
- Assess data sources for continued value and reliability, ensuring resources are appropriately allocated and deprecating obsolete items.
- Provide cross-functional support to team members as needed to ensure continuity of protective intelligence operations.
Benefits
- Remote Working
- Laptop reimbursement
- New starter package to buy hardware essentials (headphones, monitor, etc)
- Learning & Development opportunities
- Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits coverage through Anthem for the employee and dependents
- 401k
- Health Savings Account
- Life Insurance
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