Cyber Defense Infrastructure Support Specialist - SME (Blue/Purple Team Lead)

Responsibilities & Qualifications

This role functions as a technical expert who provides a mix of strategic vision, hands-on technical expertise, and effective leadership to support dual-focused teams responsible for defending against and mitigating cyber threats within a fast paced technical and cybersecurity proactive and reactive environment.

 

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Leadership and Planning
  • Support and coordinate advanced vulnerability assessments, incident response initiatives, and threat hunting operations for the Blue Team.
  • Support the collaborative activities of the Purple Team, combining offensive (Red Team) and defensive (Blue Team) strategies to identify security weaknesses and enhance defenses.
  • Support the development and subsequent execution of strategic plans that align with threat intelligence and operational realities, ensuring assessments are comprehensive and based on real-world risks.
• Threat Intelligence and Risk Assessment
  • Leverage threat intelligence to scope and prioritize projects, ensuring that assessments address true operational risks and are not limited by arbitrary system boundaries.
  • Support risk-based evaluations of the government customer critical systems, networks and infrastructure to uncover potential vulnerabilities that could impact missions.
  • Maintain up-to-date knowledge of the threat landscape and integrate this information into assessment and response activities.
• Threat Hunting Oversight
  • Support proactive threat hunting efforts to identify weaknesses and vulnerabilities to emerging threats on the government customer networks and systems.
  • Recommend best practices and advanced methodologies for tracking threat actors and reducing the organization’s exposure to attacks.
• Collaboration and Cross-Team Coordination
  • Facilitate collaboration between the Red, Blue, and Purple Teams, ensuring that insights from offensive operations are integrated into defensive strategies.
  • Work with SMEs across different technical domains to maximize the effectiveness of assessments and security planning.
• Tool and Technique Utilization
  • Guide the Blue and Purple Teams in conducting extensive vulnerability assessments using the government customer tools and techniques
  • Support evaluations across various technologies (e.g., network devices, databases, operating systems, applications) to identify vulnerabilities and recommend remediation strategies.
  • Stay current on technological advancements and support the integration of innovative security process improvements into the government customer operations.
• Team Skill Development
  • Mentor team members, enhancing their technical expertise, analytical skills, and knowledge of threat actor tactics.
  • Foster a learning culture that encourages professional growth and continuous improvement in threat detection, mitigation, and response capabilities. Promote cross-training between team members to maintain flexibility.
• Reporting and Communication
  • Prepare detailed reports and briefings for stakeholders on assessment outcomes and security improvements.
  • Translate technical findings into actionable recommendations that can be understood by both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Continuous Improvement and Innovation
  • Promote continuous evaluation and improvement of security measures through lessons learned from past assessments and incidents.
  • Encourage innovative thinking to develop adaptive defenses against evolving threats, enhancing the security posture over time.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Active Top Secret Clearance Required
• Experience: At least 14+ years of experience with at least 6 years in a management capacity or equivalent experience.
• Certifications preferred include:
  • CISSP
  • CISM
  • CISA
  • SANS GIAC certification (e.g., GPEN or GW APT)
  • OSCP
  • CEH

Overview

We are seeking a Cyber Defense Infrastructure Support Specialist-SME (Blue/Purple Team Lead) to join our team supporting a government customer.

TekSynap is a fast-growing high-tech company that understands both the pace of technology today and the need to have a comprehensive well planned information management environment. “Technology moving at the speed of thought” embodies these principles – the need to nimbly utilize the best that information technology offers to meet the business needs of our Federal Government customers.

TekSynap offers our full-time employees a competitive benefits package to include health, dental, vision, 401K, life insuran