Cyber Intrusion Detection System Administrator - TS/SCI with Polygraph

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

Top Secret/SCI

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

Top Secret SCI + Polygraph

Public Trust/Other Required:

None

Job Family:

Cyber and IT Risk Management

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Cyber Defense, Data Analysis, Information Assurance

Certifications:

None

Experience:

8 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

Yes

Job Description:

CYBERSECURITY ANALYST PRINCIPAL

Advance your career while impacting our national security in cyber as a Cybersecurity Analyst Principal at GDIT. Here, technologists have many paths to grow a meaningful career supporting cyber missions and operations across the federal government.

MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT
As a Cybersecurity Analyst Principal, the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of DIA. You will play a crucial role in helping to protect our customers systems. Networks, and data.

● Lead/Manage/Support our customers cyber tool stack and ability to implement defensive rules.

● Collaborate with other government agencies to record and prepare incident reports and analysis methodology and results.

● Provide insight to Detection and Response teams on signature functionality and providing signature tuning as needed.

●Monitoring and analyzing signature alerts from Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS) for false positives.

● Creating Splunk Dashboards

● Provide guidance and work leadership to less-experienced staff

●Utilize Splunk, Snort signatures, Regular Expressions, Suricata, Palo Alto Firewalls, Fidelis, etc

●Experience using advanced data analytics tools and techniques, such as Splunk, SQL, Python, and statistical modeling.

●Utilize Splunk, Snort signatures, Regular Expressions, Suricata, Palo Alto Firewalls, Fidelis, etc

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED
Bring your cyber expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT. The Cybersecurity Analyst Principal must have:
● Education: BS Degree or equivalent experience
● Experience: 8+ years of related experience
● Technical skills: experience with Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE), authoring Yara rules and snort signatures
● Security clearance level: TS SCI / with Polygraph
● US citizenship required
● Role requirements: work is performed directly at customer site.

The likely salary range for this position is $148,750 - $201,250. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Travel Required:

Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options:

Onsite

Work Location:

USA VA Reston

Additional Work Locations:

USA CO Colorado Springs, USA DC Washington

Total Rewards at GDIT:

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

 

Our Identity Verification Process:

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.