Cyber Defense Firewall Administrator 104-024

IC-CAP LLC • $75K — $95K *
Colorado Springs, CO 80918In-Person
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
More than 3 months ago
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of experience in cybersecurity with a high school diploma
  • 2+ years of experience in cybersecurity with an associate's degree
  • Bachelor's degree in a related field preferred
  • IAT Level II certification is required
  • DoD Approved Clearance and Polygraph is mandatory

Responsibilities

  • Investigate, analyze, and respond to cyber incidents.
  • Monitor Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems for anomalies.
  • Perform Enterprise Defense activities and coordinate with agencies.
  • Provide technical enforcement of security policies.
  • Develop and maintain incident reporting and analysis methodologies.
  • Guide and mentor less-experienced staff in best practices.
  • Participate in special projects and provide leadership as needed.

Benefits

  • Flexible work locations in the National Capital Region
  • Opportunities for professional development and advancement
  • Involvement in high-impact projects
  • Collaboration with other government agencies
  • Exposure to advanced cybersecurity tools and technologies
Full Job Description
Cyber Defense Firewall Administrator:

Job Description Summary:

Investigates, analyzes, and responds to cyber incidents within the network environment or enclave.

This position has alternate locations in the National Capital Region.

Level 0:

  • Investigates, analyzes, and responds to cyber incidents within a network environment or enclave
  • Uses data collected from a variety of cyber defense tools (e.g., IDS alerts, firewalls, network traffic logs) to analyze events that occur within their environments for the purposes of mitigating threats.
  • Interprets, analyzes, and reports all events and anomalies in accordance with computer network directives, including initiating, responding, and reporting discovered events.
  • Evaluates, tests, recommends, coordinates, monitors, and maintains cybersecurity policies, procedures, and systems, including access management for hardware, firmware, and software.
  • Ensures that cybersecurity plans, controls, processes, standards, policies, and procedures are aligned with cybersecurity standards.
  • Identifies security risks and exposures, determines the causes of security violations and suggests procedures to halt future incidents and improve security.
  • Understands and applies more advanced processes to daily activities.
  • Develops techniques and procedures for conducting cybersecurity risk assessments and compliance audits, the evaluation and testing of hardware, firmware and software for possible impact on system security, and the investigation and resolution of security incidents such as intrusion, frauds, attacks or leaks.


Job Description:

  • Performing Enterprise Defense Countermeasure (DC) activities and coordination with other government agencies to record and prepare incident reports and analysis methodology and results.
  • Monitoring and analyzing signature alerts from Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS) for false positives.
  • Providing technical enforcement of organizational security policies.
  • Providing "tune-or-drop" recommendations towards the DC team's Signature Lifecycle Review procedure.
  • Provide insight to Detection and Response teams on signature functionality and providing signature tuning as needed.
  • Providing guidance and work leadership to less-experienced staff.
  • Communicating with customers and teammates clearly and concisely.
  • Maintaining current knowledge of relevant technology as assigned and may have supervisory responsibilities.
  • Participating in special projects as required.
  • May serve as a technical team or task leader.
  • Position may require evening, weekend, or shiftwork (depending on operational tempo).


Desired Skills:

  • Experience with Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE)
  • Experience authoring Yara rules
  • Experience authoring Snort signatures


Education and Experience:

  • HSD/GED+4yrs
  • Associates+2yrs
  • Bachelors+0yrs


Training and Certifications:

  • IAT Level II


Security Clearance:

  • DoD Approved Clearance and Poly

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