Threat Intelligence Lead

Threat Intelligence Lead

Location Glasgow

Salary: £54-68K (plus double-match pension)

Permanent, Hybrid (2-3 days per week in office)

Help us create a better future, quicker

SP Energy Networks (SPEN) has kicked off an ambitious security transformation programme to transparently reduce risk, achieve compliance with NIS regulations and deliver a cyber resilient business, and the Cyber Threat Intelligence Lead will be essential in achieving our goals.

This role will be integrated into an active and ambitious global cyber security function, contributing to SPEN’s cyber security purpose of delivering cyber resilient OT and IT, to enable a safe and reliable electricity supply to customers.

What you’ll be doing

In this role you will be responsible for monitoring the threat landscape, analysing emerging risks, and delivering timely intelligence that supports Security Operations Centre (SOC) activities, incident response, threat hunting, detection engineering, risk management and the wider business. You will assess adversary tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs), develop intelligence led recommendations, and ensure that threat intelligence is effectively integrated into wider security operations, vulnerability management and risk management programmes.

A key part of the role is to collect process, analyse and disseminate threat assessments and indicators. You will develop a strong understanding of the networks and systems within our environment to contextualise threat intelligence to support control implementation, detection coverage and ensuring our defences are aligned to real-world adversary tradecraft. You will help transform intelligence into actionable decisions, strengthen monitoring capabilities and drive improvement across the detection and response lifecycle. There will also be the chance to research new and specialist techniques, working cross industry, and helping to shape our OT LAB.

You will be accountable for liaising and curating long term relationships with stakeholders to understand, document, prioritise, and communicate intelligence requirements. You will collaborate with threat detection, security monitoring, and incident response teams, providing subject matter expertise, sharing knowledge and developing/ coordinating intelligence sharing with trust groups. You will communicate the threat landscape and recommended actions to senior leadership, ensuring that the key threats to the business are understood from a top-down approach.

Other parts of the role involve identifying and supporting the integration of threat intelligence sources, commercial or other, to ensure the organisation has robust coverage of the threat landscape they face.

What you’ll bring

The successful candidate will contribute to compliance with CAF and NIS requirements by providing intelligence driven analysis, evidence, reporting and operational support. You will also help improve alert fidelity, triage quality, and threat detection effectiveness by translating intelligence into practical detection requirements and investigative use cases.

This is an opportunity for an experienced cyber security professional with a background in threat intelligence, SOC operations or detection analysis. You should have a strong understanding of attacker tactics and techniques, analytical frameworks, experience working with SIEM or SOAR technologies, threat hunting methodologies and a strong knowledge of the MITRE ATT&CK framework across both Enterprise and ICS environments.  Experience supporting regulatory and security frameworks such as CAF, NIS, NCSC guidance, or similar will be highly beneficial.

Knowledge of OT security principles, ICS environments, IEC 62443, networking fundamentals, and detection engineering would be advantageous.

The role requires excellent analytical and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex threat information into clear, actionable outcomes for technical teams and stakeholders. You will be comfortable prioritising intelligence activities in a fast-paced operational environment and supporting time sensitive investigations when required.

If you are passionate about cyber threat intelligence and want to help protect critical infrastructure operations against emerging threats, we would love to hear from you.

What’s in it for you

As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we’ll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.

At ScottishPower, we believe it’s the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family’s wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action – our benefits are designed to help you do just that -  so that you have everything you need to take care of your world – today and tomorrow. That’s why our benefits include:

• 36 days annual leave
• Holiday purchase – perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
• Share Incentive Plan and Sharesave Scheme
• Payroll giving and charity matched funding
• Technology Vouchers – save more and spread the cost of your technology purposes
• Count us in – pledge to reduce carbon emissions and help fight climate change
• Electric Vehicle Schemes – to help you transition to green/clean driving
• Cycle to Work scheme and public transport season ticket loans
• Options to purchase dental insurance, private medical insurance, health cash plan and annual health assessments
• Life Assurance (4x salary)
• Access to ‘nudge’ financial wellbeing support
• Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more

Why SP Energy Networks

SP Energy Networks is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world’s largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. We keep electricity flowing to homes and businesses through Central and Southern Scotland, North Wales and in the North West of England. We operate over 4000km of cables and lines that make-up the transmission network – connecting infrastructure like wind farms into the electricity system. It’s a role that puts us right at the heart of Scotland’s ambition to be Net Zero by 2044. And we’re taking it very seriously. We’re investing >£5.5 billion into our transmission network, directly supporting the rapid growth needed in renewable energy. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.

Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you’ll fit right in.

We are committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to [email protected].