Sr. IDS Analyst, Shift Lead - Military veterans preferred

ManTech Mission, Cyber, and Intelligence Solutions is looking for a highly motivated, qualified professional to fill a Senior IDS Analyst, Shift Lead position in D.C. A wide range of knowledge including communication, technical and people management skills are needed such as:

Senior IDS Analyst, Shift Lead will perform:

• CERT/SOC operations to include IDS event monitoring and analysis, security incident handling, incident reporting, and threat analysis.
• Candidate should be familiar with common Intrusion Detection Systems, virus and malware behavior, and intrusion methodologies.
• Candidate will monitor and analyze network traffic, IDS alerts, network and system logs, and available open source information to detect and report threats to customer networks.
• Analyst will determine appropriate response action(s) required to mitigate risk and provide threat and damage assessment for security threats which may impact the customer networks.
• Analyst may also support the Incident Response Team during incident investigations, vulnerability assessments, malware analysis, and the development of new defensive security solutions.
• Shift Lead will also perform Daily Morning Briefs to customer stakeholders.
• Additionally, candidate must be able to lead, manage and supervise a team of analysts.
• This includes approval of timesheets, PTO, expense reports, conduct annual performance reviews, mentorship, coaching and counseling, as well as maintaining contract shift schedule.
• Candidate must also be able to provide insight for development, testing, implementation and teaching new software security tools to junior and senior analysts.

Shift: Mon-Thurs 9pm-7am

Position requirements:

• 2-5 years experience directly related to the duties and responsibilities described.
• Previous operational experience in a CIRT, SOC, or CERT environment is preferred.
• Additional knowledge areas of value include malware analysis, vulnerability assessment, penetration testing, and computer forensics.
• Prior experience with ArcSight, Splunk FireEye, NetWitness and Remedy a plus.