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SENIOR CYBER INCIDENT RESPONDER

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Beltsville, MD 20705In-Person
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5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or higher.
  • 7+ years of network management experience, including configurations and security implementation on LAN and WAN equipment.
  • Certifications in system security, network infrastructure, access control, cryptography, assessments, and audits.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the Incident Response lifecycle across the Bureau of the Census against ongoing threats and vulnerabilities.
  • Provide leadership in cyber security intelligence and incident response enhancement.
  • Advise management on multi-vector threat remediation and capabilities enhancement.
  • Coordinate with multi-partner teams regarding 24/7 security posture and compliance with national regulations.
  • Develop and implement network security protocols and recovery procedures.

Benefits

  • Top Secret clearance required and maintained.
  • Mentorship and management opportunities for SOC team members.
  • Training programs for enhancing cybersecurity knowledge and skills.
  • Work in a dynamic environment addressing national regulatory requirements.
Full Job Description
Location: Washington, D.C.

Clearance: Top Secret

Job Description:
  • Lead, facilitate and advise via the Incident Response lifecycle across the Bureau of the Census within the Department of Commerce against 24/7 threats/vulnerabilities/events.
  • Provide leadership w/ security and cybersecurity intelligence, posture/capabilities status, ways-forward, trend analysis and personnel readiness to enhance cyber security and incident response.
  • Advise leadership through multi-vector threat remediation and capabilities enhancement.
  • Leverage multi-source Cyber Intelligence to bolster cybersecurity posture.
  • Effectively lead and advise Security Operations and Infrastructure teams regarding threats and vulnerabilities mitigation procedures and system(s) enhancement(s).
  • Meet/exceed/expand customer mission requirements, goals, and vision.
  • Coordinate and communicate with multi-partner teams/services regarding 24/7 security posture and national regulatory requirements.
  • Learn and foster knowledge and skills training to adhere to and expand security, cybersecurity, and contingency requirements.
  • Manage/mentor SOC team members regarding procedures, schedules, training, event & tools management, and performance requirements.
  • Develop and implement best-practice network security, backup, and recovery procedures.
  • Diagnose network connectivity and performance issues during events and incidents.
  • Integrate new systems into existing network and security architecture.
  • Monitor network capacity, performance and
  • Advise during network patching, expansion, and capability growth to ensure safeguarding of data/information against threats and vulnerabilities.
  • Obtain and retain clearance requirements set by the Dept. of Commerce
  • Provide feedback on network requirements, including network architecture and infrastructure.
  • Test and maintain network infrastructure including software and hardware devices.


Basic Qualifications- To be considered for this position, you must minimally meet the knowledge, skills, and abilities listed below:
  • Bachelor's degree or higher.
  • 7+ years' experience in network management and experience directly performing configurations and security implementation on LAN and WAN equipment.
  • Certifications addressing system security, network infrastructure, access control, cryptography, assessments and audits, and organizational security.

Job Requirements:
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Lead the Cybersecurity Incident Response lifecycle as an Incident Commander during high-demand events/incidents.
  • Advise leadership and assist management of SOC personnel, personnel readiness, team cohesion and training.
  • Understand and implement international, federal, state, and local regulation standards of cybersecurity.
  • Organize cyber operations, exercises, and inspections.
  • In-depth knowledge of network encryption, secure network topology and operating network equipment including hubs, routers, switches, bridges, servers, transmission media, and related logical & physical domains.
  • Knowledge of cloud-based networking, security, and best practices
  • Implement network threat detection and prevention rules and data control methods.
  • Operate common network tools (e.g., ping, traceroute, nslookup, ipconfig, nbstat).
  • Interpret Operating Systems command line (e.g., Windows, Linux).
  • Navigate and operate within the organization's LAN/WAN pathways.
  • Monitor and perform trend analysis of network performance, availability, and incidents.
  • Experience/knowledge monitoring networks for Indicators of Compromise
  • Operate different electronic communication systems and methods (e.g., e-mail, VOIP, IM, web forums, Direct Video Broadcasts).
  • Interpret the information collected by network tools (e.g., Microsoft Defender, FireEye, Akamai and packet capture).
  • Knowledge of network protocols such as TCP/IP, Dynamic Host Configuration, Domain Name System (DNS), bandwidth/utilization management and directory services.
  • Measure, analyze and tune network performance, confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
  • Experience with network data structures and models (e.g., Open System Interconnection Model [OSI], Information Technology Infrastructure Library, current version [ITIL]).

Additional Experience Preferred:
  • Experience holding a leadership position.
  • Implementing, maintaining, and improving established network security practices.
  • Applying ITIL or equivalent Change Management
  • Installing, configuring, and troubleshooting LAN and WAN components such as routers, hubs, switches. Establishing a routing scheme.
  • Skill in securing network communications and protecting a network against malware. (e.g., NIPS, anti-malware, restrict/prevent external devices, spam filters).
  • Configuring and utilizing network protection components (e.g., Firewalls, VPNs, network intrusion detection systems).
  • Implementing and testing network infrastructure contingency and recovery plans.
  • Applying various subnet techniques (e.g., CIDR)
  • Configuring and utilizing computer protection components (e.g., hardware firewalls, servers, routers, as appropriate).
  • Packet Analysis.

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