Title: Cyber Defense Analyst II
Location: Alexandria, VA
Clearance: TS/SCI with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph
Job Details:- Independently monitor, triage, and investigate routine and moderately complex security alerts and suspected incidents.
- Perform cyber defense monitoring and analysis using security information from enterprise systems, networks, security sensors, firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention technologies, endpoint sources, and other available telemetry.
- Analyze log files and network activity to identify anomalous or malicious behavior, determine potential security impact, and document investigative findings in the authorized case or ticketing system
- Perform cyber defense incident triage, including validation, enrichment, determination of scope, urgency, potential impact, and appropriate escalation
- Support incident handling across detection, investigation, analysis, containment/remediation coordination, recovery, and reporting in accordance with established authorities and procedures
- Correlate incident and security data across multiple sources to identify affected systems, users, vulnerabilities, adversary activity, and related events
- Collect and preserve relevant intrusion artifacts and investigative evidence in accordance with established procedures
- Communicate incident status, findings, risk, and recommended actions to SOC personnel, technical teams, management, and government stakeholders as appropriate
- Develop and test investigative hypotheses by correlating network, host, identity, firewall, vulnerability, and threat data
- Identify related activity beyond the initially alerted system and appropriately expand investigative scope
- Execute established incident response and escalation procedures and coordinate with technical teams when containment or remediation action is required
- Identify recurring alert-quality, telemetry, or process issues and recommend improvements to senior analysts
Requirements:- Bachelor's degree from an accredited institute in a technical discipline applicable to the position; an additional 4 years of may be substituted in lieu of a degree
- Minimum four (4) years of relevant experience in addition to education level
- Working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S, authentication, enterprise networking, Windows/Linux security events, and common adversary techniques
- Hands-on experience using SIEM and one or more network, endpoint, firewall, IDS/IPS, or security-analysis technologies
- Ability to independently investigate security activity, distinguish facts from assumptions, and communicate evidence-based conclusions
- Must possess current DoD 8570 IAT II or IAM II certification
- Experience working in a DoD or IC environment
- Current active TS/SCI clearance, with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph
