Advanced Cybersecurity Analytics Lead

Advanced Cybersecurity Analytics Lead

Job Category: Information Technology

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: TS/SCI

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10%

Type of Travel: Local

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The Opportunity:
As the Advanced Cyber Analytics team lead, you will be tasked with developing and maintaining defensive countermeasures for the enterprise. Working within a Fusion model, you will collaborate with other teams within Focused-Operations with the task of proactively preventing a successful compromise and eradicating persistent adversaries already in the enterprise. This will be done through various means such as reviewing future and past intelligence reports, reviewing incident reports, through regular Purple Team exercises, and continuously validating Defensive Countermeasures already deployed.

Responsibilities:
• Lead the Advanced Cyber Analytics Team in developing and maintaining countermeasures, integrating the team in Focused-Operations and other outside teams' processes, providing expertise to train/mentor more junior members.

• Analyze trends and patterns of data on NGA networks to identify and predict previously undiscovered events and incidents and develop or tune rules/signatures/scripts as needed.

• Coordinate with Defensive Cyber Operations and Focused-Operations to develop or tune rules/signatures/scripts.

• Coordinate with other Cybersecurity Operations Services to investigate and obtain information about potential sources of compromise on enterprise systems and develop or tune rules/signatures/scripts as needed.

• Correlate and analyze precursors to incidents and develop or tune rules/signatures/scripts as needed.

• Collaborate with the Cyber Data Analytics team to achieve Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) alert efficiency through evaluation of valid alerts and false positives, and develop or tune rules/signatures/scripts as needed.

• Work with the Cyber Incident Response Team by assessing ongoing incident activity to predict adversary responses and locations of compromise to assist with triage.

• Document all work in the authorized ticketing system with a sufficient level of detail to ensure all stakeholders can systematically reconstruct the analysis.

• Provide input to recurring meetings and briefings as required.

Qualifications:

Required: 
• Must be a US Citizen with an Active TS/SCI.

• 8+ years of related advanced cyber security analytics work experience.

• Must have a certification that is compliant with DoD 8140.01 and DoD 8570.01-M IAT Level III and CSSP Analyst.

• Experience with data mining or building queries in a SIEM.

• Strong understanding of signature development and tuning.

• Strong understanding of network protocols and analysis with protocol analyzers.

• Knowledge of static file signatures, i.e., "magic numbers" and how it applies to developing countermeasures for files in transit and that reside locally on a host.

• Good working knowledge of regular expressions.

• Excellent written and verbal communication.

Desired:
• Comfortable in a hex editor.

• Ability to write Python/Bash/PowerShell scripts.

• Ability to analyze each use case, as it pertains to detection logic, and identify the corresponding capability.

• Good understanding of Purple Team Tactics.

• Familiarity with security in a cloud environment and how it applies to visibility gaps, data lakes, and data mining.

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What You Can Expect:

 

A culture of integrity.

At CACI, we place character and innovation at the center of everything we do. As a valued team member, you’ll be part of a high-performing group dedicated to our customer’s missions and driven by a higher purpose – to ensure the safety of our nation.

 

An environment of trust.

CACI values the unique contributions that every employee brings to our company and our customers - every day. You’ll have the autonomy to take the time you need throug