Cyber Incident Monitoring Analyst - Senior

Responsibilities

Peraton is seeking to hire a Cyber Incident Monitoring Analyst (Senior) to become part of Peraton’s Department of State (DoS) Diplomatic Security Cyber Mission (DSCM) program providing leading cyber and technology security experience to enable innovative, effective and secure business processes. This role supports the Cyber Incident Response Team (CIRT).

Location: Beltsville, MD. 

Required: This position requires 5 days on-site. This position will support Tuesday-Saturday from 2:00pm to 10:00pm.

In this role you will:

• Support the Cyber Incident Response Team (CIRT) and will be responsible for running day to day operations and analysis of the team.
• Develop the overall maturity of the team both from a holistic and professional level.
• Liaison between other CIRT teams and contract/government management.
• Provide Monitoring support in a 24x7x365 environment.
• Provide leadership and mentoring to security analysts.
• Share in-depth knowledge and intelligence gained from cyber security events with stakeholders.
• Protect against and prevent potential cyber security threats and vulnerabilities.
• Monitor and analyze network traffic to identify potential security threats and vulnerabilities.
• Monitor and analyze Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) alerts to identify security issues for remediation and investigate events and incidents.
• Provide response, technical assistance and expertise for significant cyber incidents, investigations, and related operational events.
• Develop and implement training programs for monitoring analysts.
• Develop and maintain security policies, procedures, and documentation.
• Conduct detailed research to increase awareness and readiness levels of the security operations center.
• Conduct advanced analysis and recommend remediation steps.
• Analyze network events to determine impact.
• Conduct all-source research to determine threat capability and intent.
• Develop and maintain analytical procedures to meet changing requirements.
• Develop content for cyber defense tools.
• Analyze identified malicious activity to determine weaknesses exploited, exploitation methods, effects on system and information.
• Determine tactics, techniques, and procedures for intrusion sets.
• Work with stakeholders to resolve computer security incidents and vulnerability compliance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure compliance with security standards and best practices.
• Collect and analyze intrusion artifacts (e.g., source code, malware, and system configuration) and use discovered data to enable mitigation of potential cyber defense incidents within the enterprise.
• Perform real-time cyber defense incident handling (e.g., forensic collections, intrusion correlation and tracking, threat analysis, and direct system remediation) tasks to support incident response.

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Qualifications

Required: 

• Bachelor's degree with 5 Years experience; 3 Years with Masters; 0 Years with PhD.
• Must possess ONE of the following certifications or the ability to obtain before start date:
• CISSP-ISSAP, CISSP-ISSEP, CISSP, Security + CE, CySA+, PPDA, Agile IC, or SNOW App Dev 
• U.S. Citizenship and an active Secret security clearance.
• Security Operations Center experience, network event analysis and/or threat analysis.
• Tuning and/or configuring SIEM and vulnerability tools experience.
• Cloud computing technologies to include Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) experience.
• Expertise in traditional computing technologies architecture, design and security.
• Expertise in planning, implementation and usage of log aggregation and security analysis tools.
• Demonstrated knowledge utilizing native security and logging tools and centralized log aggregation utilizing a variety of methods.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the Incident Response Lifecycle and how it applies to cloud, legacy and hybrid environments.
• Ability to identify remediation steps for cybersecurity events.
• Demonstrated ability to utilize and leverage forensic tools to assist in determining scope and severity of a cybersecurity incident.
• Proven ability to brief (technical/informational) senior leadership.
• Ability to scope and perform impact analysis on incidents. 

Preferred/Desired:

• Knowledge of network architecture, design and security.
• Ability to analyze static and dynamic malware analysis reports.