Job Description
ALTA IT has a Contract to Hire position open for a Cyber Security Specialist.
Active TS / SCI Clearance Onsite - Springfield, VA Positions for Entry Level to Mid-Level Shifts Available Below ALTA IT is looking for a Cyber Security Operations Specialist to operate and manage all aspects of Information Systems, data availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and non-repudiation. This role will develop and execute security policies, plans, and procedures and ensure security measures of the network.
What You’ll Get to Do:
- Provide cyber threat intelligence services for the collection, fusion, analysis, creation, and distribution of threat intelligence from government entities, commercial feeds, open sources, and other partners to obtain situational awareness of the threat environment.
- Provide cyber threat intelligence services on an expanded 12x5 service support level during core hours and on-call support with two-hour response time during non-core hours.
- Cyber threat intelligence services shall develop and disseminate reports and tippers to internal and external stakeholders based on events, alerts, and incidents on customer systems and networks.
- Implements and monitors security measures for communication systems, networks, and provide advice that systems and personnel adhere to established security standards and Governmental requirements for security on these systems.
- Designs and implements data network security measures; operates Network Intrusion Detection and Forensics; conducts performance analysis of Information Systems security incidents; develops Continuity of Operation (COOP)/Disaster Recovery (DR) plans and supports certification of Information Systems and Networks.
- Supervises operation of Electronic Key Management System, other information security duties, and Public Key Infrastructure.
- Receive tickets from other Cybersecurity Operations Services sub-services and conduct detailed analysis to validate any event/alert/incident
- Categorize, prioritize, investigate, and assess cybersecurity events/alerts/incidents to identify the extent and scope of the event/alert/incident and what impact there is on the operation or systems
- Update and forward tickets to other Cybersecurity Operations Services to customer as needed
- Collect, aggregate, and analyze artifacts and evidence from all available tools, knowledge sources, and data artifacts to determine and document the who, what, when, where, why and how of an intrusion, its extent, how to limit damage, and how to recover
- Submit custom signatures and tuning requests as needed to Network Security Services, Endpoint Security Services, and Cybersecurity Data Analysis Services
- Assists the C-IRT by assessing ongoing incident activity to predict adversary responses and locations of compromise
- Documents tickets and analysis to a level of detail sufficient to reconstruct the analyst’s analysis, to include but not limited to the steps taken, timelines, and data required to justify the analyst’s assessment
- Provide custom metrics reports including incident category types, tools used, number of indicators, time opened at each step, trending statistics, service availability, system utilization, etc.
- Provide input to the daily CSOC Significant Activity, Operations, and the weekly CSOC Status Report
- Advanced Cybersecurity Analytics, coordinate with Network Security Services, Endpoint Security Services, and Cybersecurity Data Analysis Services to develop or tune rules/signatures/scripts
You’ll Bring These Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in a Technical field (i.e. Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Science)
- 4+ years’ experience working in Cyber Security Operating Host Based Security System (HBSS), firewalls, Intrusion Prevention Systems, Intrusion Detection Systems, other point of presence security tools, Virtual Private Networks, and related security operations.
- DoD 8570.01-M IAT Level II certification and CSSP Analyst.
- Utilize the SEIM to perform 24/7 monitoring, detection, and initial triage (identify, investigate, categorize, prioritize, ticketing, and forwarding) of events/alerts/incidents.
- Experience with Cyber Incident Response Team (C-IRT) Services
- Cyber Incident Quality Control Services - Conduct Quality Control reviews of a percentage closed Tier II tickets each week to ensure proper analysis, categorization, documentation, and notification
- Cyber Threat Intelligence Services - Conduct emerging threat and intelligence fusion analysis
- Cyber Threat Emulation Services; Develop, test, and when properly authorized, execute custom scripts, programs, and/or other capabilities to emulate cyber threats to include Cyber Data Presentation Services
- Cyber Hunt Services/Planned Hunt Services; update, and document tickets in the authorized ticketing system to initiate the incident response.
- TS/SCI Security Clearance (US Citizenship required)
These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have:
- IAT Level III
- Master’s Degree in a Technical field
Shift 1 - Monday - Friday 0600-1400
Shift 2 - Monday - Friday 1400 - 2200
Shift 3 -Monday - Friday 2200 -0600
Shift 4 - Weekend 0600 - 1800
Shift 5 - Weekend 1800 - 0600
Shifts 4 and 5 are weekend day/night. The hours are Saturday/Sunday 6a to 6p and 6p to 6a. For the remaining 16 hours, they work with the Team lead to work two 8 hour shifts during the week.
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