Job Responsibilities
About SLED
The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) is a premier statewide law enforcement agency dedicated to serving and protecting the citizens of South Carolina. With a proud history rooted in integrity, professionalism, and public service, SLED is committed to providing high-quality investigative, intelligence, and forensic services to support law enforcement agencies across the state.
At SLED, we value dedication, ethical conduct, accountability, and a strong commitment to justice. Our agency plays a vital role in maintaining public safety and supporting criminal justice efforts at the local, state, and federal levels. From advanced forensic science to homeland security, criminal investigations, and criminal justice information systems, SLED's diverse responsibilities make it one of the most dynamic law enforcement agencies in the state.
We foster a professional work environment where teamwork, respect, and continuous improvement are fundamental. Our employees are held to the highest standards and are given opportunities to grow within a mission-driven organization that makes a meaningful difference in South Carolina communities.
Learn more about why you should join our team at www.sled.sc.gov .
General Responsibility
Serve as a Threat Intelligence Analyst for South Carolina Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (SC CIC). This position will work closely with government agencies, private sector partners, and other stakeholders to identify and address cybersecurity challenges. Gathers, analyzes, and disseminates information about cyber security threats to prevent, detect, and mitigate cyber attacks. This role also supports strategic threat intelligence development, enhances external security postures through vulnerability analysis, and promotes cybersecurity awareness through training and exercises.
Specific Duties
- Collect, monitor, and analyze cyber threat data from open-source intelligence (OSINT), threat feeds, and other sources to identify patterns, techniques being used, and potential threats. Provide insight and context to enhance the team's efforts to improve the security posture throughout the state.
- Maintains working knowledge of latest attack techniques, tactics, and procedures (TTPs) relevant to SC critical infrastructure. Ensures that SC CIC analysts are briefed on current threats in a digestible, timely, and efficient manner. Initiate special projects, work both independently and as part of a team, gather information related to specific criminal, cyber, or administrative investigations, and disseminate information in an effective and efficient manner. Meet with members of local, state, and private sector partners to discuss cyber security issues.
- Coordinate with IT, Security Operations Center (SOC), and Incident Response teams to identify, analyze, and hunt for threat actor behavior.
- Meet with critical infrastructure participants to ascertain intelligence needs. Develop threat intelligence reports, briefings, and alerts to disseminate to key stakeholders including participants and task force partners, enabling proactive decision-making and risk mitigation strategies.
- Create content for SC CIC monthly webinar and hosted events to build information security community awareness of emerging cybersecurity threats with appropriate recommendations for countermeasures.
Minimum And Additional Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in IT Systems, Computer Science or a related field.
- Relevant experience in the IT field to include experience in a security-focused role. Relevant experience may be substituted for the bachelor's degree on a year-for-year basis.
- Knowledge of information security frameworks.
- Broad understanding of common information security regulations.
- Knowledge of system and network security for common operating systems and local area networks.
- Advanced technical knowledge of application, hosted service and cloud security principles.
- Thorough knowledge of information risk concepts and principles, with the ability to relate them to business needs and security controls. Strong ability to communicate with audiences with varying levels of technical knowledge.
- This position involves working with sensitive information concerning local government and private critical infrastructure organizations around the state.
- Must be able to participate in on-call rotation and respond to after-hours incidents.
Additional Comments
South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, including, but not limited, to lactation), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information.
SLED offers an exceptional benefits package for FTE positions that includes:
- Health, Dental, Vision, Long Term Disability, and Life Insurance for Employee, Spouse, and Children
- 15 days annual (vacation) leave per year
- 15 days sick leave per year
- 13 paid holidays
- Paid Parental Leave
- State Retirement Plan and Deferred Compensation Programs
Supplemental questions are considered part of the official application. Any misrepresentation of yourself may be grounds for disqualification.
Conditional selection based on candidate education, training, experience, oral interviews and clearance of background investigation.
