Cyber Fusion Analyst (JRSS Boundary Protection) - Military veterans preferred

Description

JOB DESCRIPTION:  Provide correlation and analysis of cyberspace incident reports derived from reliable sources, network sensors, vulnerability management devices, open source information, and Industry/ Government provided situational awareness of known adversary activities.  Applies expert knowledge of Named Areas of Interest (NAI) and advanced persistent threats to review, analyze, and maintain the content of an indicator database to aid in the detection and mitigation of threat activity.  Utilize COTS/GOTS analyses tool and expert knowledge to provide threat detection analysis and monitoring, correlation, and prevention of cyber threat activity targeting the customer network.  This task requires technical knowledge on the utilization of government and industry capabilities, best security practices, advanced log analysis, forensics, network monitoring, network flow analysis, packet capture analysis, network proxies, firewalls, and anti-virus capabilities. Additionally, this task requires technical knowledge of forensics analysis to determine adversary methods of exploiting information system security controls, the use of malicious logic, and the lifecycle of network threats and attack vectors.  Must produce reports on the unique TTPs utilized and conduct incident handling/triage, network analysis and threat detection, trend analysis, metric development, and security vulnerability information dissemination.  Must be able to assist the customer with developing metrics and trending/analysis reports of malicious activity and develop signatures for threat detection.  (It should be understood that this is not intended to be a detailed nor comprehensive description of any individual employee's job content.  Managers set the specific duties and responsibilities for each employee). 

Qualifications

Bachelors and two (2) years or more experience; Masters and 0 years related experience. Four additional years' experience may be considered in lieu of degree. 

Qualifications:
- US Citizen with the ability to obtain a Secret Clearance. An Interim Secret Clearance will be required to start the position.
- Experience working in information security, cyber intelligence, incident response, or other technical cyber security roles
- Knowledge of Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) tactics, technics and procedures
- Understanding of possible attack activities such as network probing/scanning, DDOS, malicious code activity, etc.
- Understanding of networking protocols such as TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP
- Experience Risk Management Framework and cyber security operations
- Experience with DevOps / Agile practices a PLUS
- Cybersecurity certification such as Security+, CISSP, CISM, ISSMP, etc a PLUS