Cyber Defense Analyst (US Citizen, ONSITE, 2nd Shift)

Job Description

Job Description

Cyber Defense Analyst/Intrusion Detection Team Shift Lead

2nd shift - 3pm - 11:30pm

Washington, DC – onsite

Must be able to obtain Public Trust clearance

Responsibilities:

• Collaborates with intrusion analysts to identify, report on, and coordinate remediation of cyber threats to the client

• Provides timely and actionable sanitized intelligence to cyber incident response professionals

• Leverages technical knowledge of computer systems and networks with cyber threat information to assess the client's security posture

• Conducts intelligence analysis to assess intrusion signatures, tactics, techniques and procedures associated with preparation for and execution of cyber attacks

• Researches hackers, hacker techniques, vulnerabilities, exploits, and provides detailed briefings and intelligence reports to leadership

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's with 8+ years of cyber security experience (or commensurate experience)

• 7 years of security intrusion detection examination experience involving a range of security technologies that product logging data; to include wide area networks host and network IPS/IDS/HIPs traffic event review, server web log analysis, raw data logs

• Working experience of Splunk SIEM. Contractor will have at least two years as a cyber security or security operations shift team leader

• At least five years’ experience working at a senior level, performing analytics examination of logs and console events in the following working experience areas of; creating advance queries methods in Splunk or advance Grep skills, firewall ACL review, examining Snort based IDS events, Pcaps, web server log review, and working in a SIEM environment