Senior Security Threat Analyst - Fort Huachuca, United States - Peraton

Description

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Identify and investigate vulnerabilities, asses exploit potential, and document findings and remedies for presentation to facilitate mitigations oncustomer systems
Perform daily cyber threat research and present findings to the organization to maintain knowledge of current adversary tactics, techniques andprocedures and how to apply them. Brief staff and leadership on these findings
Evaluate system security configurations, identify intrusion, identify incident method, and perform root cause analysis on intrusions
Perform analysis of complex software systems to determine both functionality and intent of software systems
Resolve highly complex malware and intrusion issues
Contribute to the design, development and implementation of countermeasures, system integration, and tools specific to Cyber and Information Operations
Create analytics with a SIEM to identify patterns, anomalies, and compromising indicators to alert Cyber Incident responders
Prepare and presents technical reports and briefings
Perform documentation and vetting of identified vulnerabilities for operational use
Assist all sections of the Defensive Cyber Operations team as required in performing analysis
Travel to customer sites to perform network security evaluations
Write reports of vulnerabilities to increase customer situational awareness and improve the customers cyber security posture

Basic Qualifications:

Active Top-Secret/SCI
Minimum of 8 years with BS/BA; Minimum of 6 years with MS/MA; Minimum of 3 years with PhD
Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst (GCIA)
Possess DoD M Information Assurance Technician (IAT) Level II Baseline Certification
Must posses an active, OR have the ability to obtain within 90 days of hire date, an ITIL Foundations Certification
Must have a full, complete, and in-depth understanding of all aspects of Defensive Cyber Operations
Must have a good breadth of knowledge of common ports and protocols of system and network services
Experience in packet captures and analyzing a network packet
Experience with intrusion detecti on systems such as Snort, Suricata, and Zeek
Experience with SIEM systems such as Splunk, ArcSight, or Elastic

Desired Qualifications:

DoD 8570 IAT III (CISSP, CASP, CISA, GCED, GCIH)
Experience in developing complex dashboards, report, and automated searches in Splunk, ArcSight, or Elastic/Kibana
Experience with analyzing packets using Arkime
Experience with Microsoft Windows event IDs
Experience with Linux audit log analysis
Familiarity with Git and VScode
Experience with one or more scripting languages such as PowerShell, Bash, Python

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