CIRT/Engineer Analyst

Job Location: Beltsville, Maryland

Clearance Required: Secret/Must be Eligible for Top Secret

Years of Experience: 1+

Education: Bachelor Degree in Related Field Preferred

General:

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Duties:

• Conducts incident-event investigation and analysis
• Assesses and detects network vulnerabilities
• Maintains security system infrastructure
• Provides technical support to CS&P team
• Supports security posture assessments
• Maintains awareness of cyber trends, threats, and vulnerabilities
• Develops, integrates and maintains security toolsets
• Conducts Cyber Security Monitoring and Incident Response operations supporting a Cabinet-Level Federal Agency 24x7x365
• Contributes to a team of approximately 30 Cyber Security professionals working with Intrusion Detection System (IDS) software and hardware, analyzing IDS data to determine root cause of security events and coordinate remediation with personnel throughout the globe
• Thinks like a hacker and anticipates cyber attack vectors
• Monitors the Security Operations Center (SOC) hotline, email inboxes, and other communications
• Identifies, analyzes, remediates, and reports on security incidents
• Reports incident information to US-CERT as necessary
• Maintains incident logs in analysis database 

Daily Responsibilities:

• Detect intrusions, create tickets, report, and perform classification of computer security events and incidents
• Receive and process events accurately, professionally, and quickly
• Coordinate with internal teams, field users, and others as needed to analyze events
• Support ongoing investigations related to computer security
• Identify operational efficiencies and suggest improvements to CIRT leadership

Qualifications:

Basic Requirements:

• Intrusion Detection System (IDS) tools and concepts
• Packet analysis tools and concepts
• Malware analysis concepts
• Problem solving
• Attention to detail

Desired: Skills: Preferred but not required

• CISSP
• Certified Ethical Hacker
• NSA IAM/IEM
• SANS GCIH and/or GCIA
• Security+ and/or Network+

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