***U.S. GOVERNMENT CLEARANCE REQUIRED***
Duties:
- Performs network security monitoring and incident response for a large organization.
- Coordinates with other government agencies to record and report incidents.
- Maintains records of security monitoring and incident response activities, utilizing case management and ticketing technologies.
- Monitors Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) to identify security issues for remediation.
- Recognizes potential, successful, and unsuccessful intrusion attempts and compromises thorough reviews and analyses of relevant event detail and summary information. Communicates alerts to agencies regarding intrusions and compromises to their network infrastructure, applications and operating systems.
- Assists with implementation of countermeasures or mitigating controls.
- Supports efforts to consolidate and conduct comprehensive analysis of threat data obtained from classified, proprietary, and open-source resources to provide indication and warnings of impending attacks against unclassified and classified networks.
- Supports Team Lead on developing recommendations for changes to Standard Operating Procedures and other similar documentation.
- Monitors and reviews logs from existing security tools and creates new security tool signatures to ensure maximum performance and availability.
- Performs all aspects of intrusion detection, log and audit management, network and database vulnerability assessment and compliance management, and security configuration.
- Installs, configures, troubleshoots, and maintains server configurations (hardware and software) to ensure their confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Also manages accounts, security devices, and patches; responsible for access control/passwords/account creation and administration.
- Analyze collected information to identify vulnerabilities and potential for exploitation.
- Provides support in the identification, documentation, and development of computer and network security countermeasures.
- Identifies network and operating systems vulnerabilities and recommends countermeasures.
- Supports the deployment and integration of security tools as needed.
- Prepares written reports and provides verbal information security briefings.
- Investigates, monitors, analyzes, and reports on information security incidents.
- Responds to crisis or urgent situations within the pertinent domain to mitigate immediate and potential threats.
- Use mitigation, preparedness, and response and recovery approaches, as needed to maximize information security.
- Provides incident handling support for incident detection, analysis, coordination, and response.
- Monitors network to actively remediate unauthorized activities.
- Monitors intrusion detection sensors and log collection hardware and software to ensure systems are collecting relevant data.
- Monitors all security systems to ensure maximum performance and availability.
- Analyze computer security threat information from multiple sources, disciplines, and agencies across.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in one or more of the following disciplines or equivalent (documented formal training): computer science, information systems, engineering, business, physical science, or other technology-related discipline.
- Secret clearance: must be eligible for a Top-Secret clearance, if requested.
Education Substitution:
- Any combination of certificates such as Microsoft’s MCSE, or Cisco’s, CCNA, CCDA, or CCNP, may be considered equivalent to two (2) year of general experience / information technology experience. Certificates under the DoD IAM, IAT, IASAE, or CSSP Levels I, II or III may be considered equivalent to two (2) years of information security experience.
- Three (3) years of documented work experience performing any combination of Information System Security, Security Assessment & Authorization, Cybersecurity, Computer Forensics, or Insider Threat
Desired Qualifications:
- CompTIA CySA+ cybersecurity analyst certification
- Cybersecurity Incident response and Detection experience.
- Experience in cybersecurity event triaging. Utilizing the seven steps of the Incident Response Process – (IRP)
- Security Operation Center Experience – (SOC)
- Conducting cyber event investigations to determine root cause of the event. Determining if the event is a True/False Positive.
- Creating rules, thresholds, and policies associated with cybersecurity tool platforms designed to prevent Indicators of Compromise/Attack from occurring. IOC’s/IOA’s
- Verification & Validation of information, containment, eradication, and recovery from incidents.
- Experience in validating Hash’s Malicious IP’s, URL’s
- Experience in investigation malicious emails and payloads
- Requirements analysis, program development activities, architecture, engineering, integrating, developing and/or deploying information technology products (hardware and software) in an enterprise environment.
- Ability to create and monitor multiple cybersecurity tools dashboards.
- Experience in Open-Source Intelligence gathering.
- Experience with Threat hunting and vulnerability assessment
- Knowledge of SIEM tools and query generation
General Experience: SOC (Security Operations Center) operations, vulnerability analysis, triaging, incident handling, reporting, ticket generation and handling, assisting with incident resolution.
Relevant Cybersecurity Analyst Experience:
- Work experience and knowledge in; vulnerability assessment, analysis, and mitigation; analyzing security system logs, security tools, and data; network monitoring, and intrusion detection using host-based and network-based intrusion detection systems (IDS) and log management applications; testing, installing, patching, and upgrading computer hardware and operating systems (Windows, and UNIX) in an enterprise environment; identifying, collecting, processing, documenting, reporting, cyber security/incident response events; architecting, engineering, developing and implementing cyber security/incident response policies and procedures; engineering, testing, installing, patching, and upgrading various information security hardware and software applications.
- Familiarity with SourceFire, Arcsight, Splunk, NetWitness, Guidance Software, Digital Guardian, SureView, Intelliview, Nessus, and Foundstone.
- Penetration testing experience for networks, web applications, and enterprise systems. Experience with Federal cybersecurity standards, industry best practices and guidelines.
Salary Range:
- $115,000 to $129,000 per year