Title: Senior Cyber Defense Analyst III
Location: Colorado Springs, CO
Clearance: TS/SCI with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph
Job Details:- Perform and lead advanced investigation of complex security events and incidents across network, endpoint, identity, firewall, vulnerability, and other available telemetry
- 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
- Serve as a senior technical escalation point to less expereinced team members and provide hands-on guidance during complex investigations
- Lead portions of incident response activities, including scoping, evidence analysis, containment recommendations, technical coordination, and post-incident review
- Conduct proactive analysis and threat hunting when warranted to identify related or previously undetected activity
- Develop, maintain, and improve analyst runbooks, investigative procedures, escalation criteria, incident playbooks, and shift-turnover practices
- Partner with threat analysts and engineering personnel to identify telemetry gaps, detection gaps, false positives, and opportunities for improved enrichment or automation
- Mentor junior analysts, support analyst qualification and exercises, and perform quality review of investigations and case documentation
- Translate incident lessons learned into improved detections, procedures, training, and defensive recommendations
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 six (6) years of relevant experience in addition to education level
- Significant hands-on experience conducting cybersecurity investigations and incident response in enterprise environments.
- Strong knowledge of network and host-based investigation, common adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures, and the MITRE ATT&CK framework
- Experience developing or improving SOC procedures, incident playbooks, runbooks, or analyst training materials
- Experience serving as an escalation point, technical lead, or mentor for cyber defense analysts
- 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
