JOB DESCRIPTION-OSINT Analyst & Fact-Checking Specialist
Grow Your Career with HACKELITE PVT LTD – Now Hiring OSINT Analyst & Fact-Checking Specialist. HackElite is a leading provider of comprehensive cybersecurity solutions. From advanced threat intelligence and vulnerability management to dark web monitoring and risk assessment, we specialize in helping businesses stay ahead of cyber threats. Backed by a team of seasoned experts, innovative tools, and a commitment to excellence, we empower organizations to build resilient digital ecosystems.
We are looking for a highly skilled The OSINT Analyst & Fact Checker is responsible for conducting deep open-source investigations, validating information, analyzing geopolitical narratives, and providing intelligence on aviation, maritime, and digital ecosystems.
This role combines traditional research, real-time monitoring, and advanced digital analysis to produce accurate intelligence products for decision-makers, media teams, or security units.
You will track global events, identify emerging risks, verify claims, expose misinformation, and build structured narratives that support strategic communication and situational awareness
Essential Skills
- Perform line-by-line verification of articles, reports, claims, and digital content.
- Confirm authenticity of photos, videos, maps, documents, and online posts.
- Use reverse image search, metadata extraction, and cross-source triangulation.
- Identify manipulated media, AI-generated content, and deepfakes.
- Compile transparent sourcing and verification notes.
- Gather intelligence from social media, satellite imagery, government databases, commercial platforms, and open data repositories, ensuring all activities comply with applicable laws, regulations, and privacy protections.
- Apply geolocation, chronolocation, and forensic digital methods.
- Monitor extremist networks, political groups, and geopolitical actors online.
- Track information environments during conflict, elections, or crisis situations.
- Produce short-term and long-term assessments of global political dynamics.
- Track conflicts, military movements, diplomatic shifts, and regional tensions.
- Map relationships between state and non-state actors.
- Forecast geopolitical risks using indicators, trend analysis, and scenario modeling.
- Analyze how narratives emerge, spread, and influence public perception.
- Identify disinformation campaigns, bot activity, and coordinated influence operations.
- Produce narrative maps, message flow diagrams, and audience segmentation.
- Develop counter-narratives and communication strategies aligned with organizational goals.
- Track aircraft using platforms such as ADS-B Exchange, FlightRadar24, RadarBox.
- Monitor military air activity, transport logistics, and unusual flight behaviors.
- Analyze airport operations, flight patterns, and no-fly or restricted zones.
- Cross-reference aviation activity with geopolitical events or crisis indicators.
- Use MarineTraffic, VesselFinder, AIS data, and satellite imagery to track naval and commercial vessels
- Identify ship-to-ship transfers, sanctioned vessel movements, and naval deployments.
- Analyze maritime chokepoints, shipping disruptions, and regional naval tactics.
- Map digital networks, track online personas, and assess digital footprints.
- Investigate data leaks, cyber incidents, and hacktivist activity (within legal limits).
- Analyze digital propaganda, extremist digital behavior, and hybrid warfare tactics.
Reporting, Visualization & Presentation-
- Create intelligence reports, situation updates, threat briefs, and visual dashboards.
- Develop maps, timelines, geospatial layers, and pattern-analysis graphics.
- Present findings clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Maintain documentation and OSINT chain-of-custody standards.
Key Competencies & Technical Competencies
- OSINT frameworks (SOCMINT, GEOINT, IMINT, SIGINT-adjacent)
- Fact-checking methodologies (3-source rule, triangulation, forensic review)
- Geopolitical literacy (IR theory, conflict studies, global power dynamics)
- Aviation & maritime tracking tools
- Digital forensics & metadata analysis
- Narrative and influence operations analysis
- Data visualization and intelligence writing
Pay: ₹200,000.00 - ₹600,000.00 per year
Work Location: In person
