Cyber Security Operations Lead - Reston, United States - Demo - Maximus

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Job brief:

The Cyber Security Operations Team Lead is responsible for the ITSS cyber operations team in their design, development, implementation, and operations of Cyber-related information systems, databases, tools, and processes such as Splunk, Tenable Nessus, RedSeal, Kion, etc.

Coordinates and collaborates with other program team leads and team members to ensure effective delivery of client services and governance process adherence.

Provides subject matter expertise, formal recommendations, guidance, and oversight into software engineering, vulnerability management, SOP management, weekly and monthly metrics reporting, incident response management and change control management across the entire IT environment.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the Technical Team Lead responsible for all aspects of the planning and execution of technical requirements within Cyber Operations.
• Leverage evolving technology solutions to respond to suspicious/malicious activity and continuously baselined solution.
• Coordinate and lead investigations and response activities related to internal Incident Response standards
• Act as an internal expert on matters relating to intrusion detection and incident response
• Support investigations into network intrusions and other cybersecurity breaches
• Support a coordinated response to complex cyber-attacks that threaten assets, intellectual property, and computer systems
• Contribute to the development and improvement of security monitoring and incident response processes
• Research and recommend solutions for incident response and digital forensics
• Provide vulnerability management and metrics reporting
• Perform risk assessment review process to support change control management
• Tracking and management of ServiceNow tickets for pending and completed tasks
• Provide project support for FISMA Remediation, Splunk, Palo Alto Next Generation Firewall (PA NGFW), Tenable, RedSeal, SolarWinds and CDM
• SOP Maintenance in JIRA and SharePoint
• Responsible for compiling weekly and monthly report metrics to the cyber manager
• Use of JIRA to manage tasks and to conduct task prioritization meetings with stakeholders for their information and to obtain guidance/input.
• Responsible for employee reviews, goals, training, and cross-training
• Responsible for reviewing and approving timesheets
• Ensure effective communication across other program teams as well as with business unit leaders, clients, and end-users
• Assist client in evaluating environment, future needs, and new applications to establish strategic and tactical plans on one-, three-, and five-year horizons
• Perform analysis to compare options for new implementation of applications, systems, and processes; perform make/buy analysis; create reports and recommendations and present to the client for consideration

What You Need:
Minimum of 5+ years of enterprise applications experience as a team lead or senior level.

The ideal candidate will have the practical experience and technical skills to accomplish the following:

• 5+years of specialized cybersecurity technical expertise in at least one of the following areas of Cybersecurity:oOperations (e.g., SOC, Incident Response, Insider Threat, Cyber Threat Intelligence, Cyber Hunt, Forensics, Phishing)oArchitecture and Engineering (i.e., breadth of Cybersecurity tools and technologies)
• At least 2 years of experience managing technical teams, projects, and activities
• Strong leadership, written and verbal communication, and analytic and problem-solving skills are required
• At least one high-level certification related to your area of expertise is required
• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is preferred, or equivalent.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to work in both group settings and interface directly with client/project counterparts to ensure high quality project delivery on schedule.
• Experience migrating on-premises web applications to cloud service providers
• Experience with management and oversight of support of commercial off the shelf (COTS) and government off the shelf systems (GOTS)
• Experience training, mentoring, and inspiring engineers

Optional Expertise in:

• Understanding of cloud vs. on-prem architecture and DevOps preferred to enable IT strategic planning and decision making
• Knowledge and expertise with daily utilization and capabilities of Atlassian JIRA and ServiceNow preferred
• Experience designing systems with high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) as non-functional requirements
• Basic knowledge of networking, infrastructure, cyber security, and project management office fundamentalsEducation and Experience Requirements

This job is reserved for Attain only. Attain job description is under review.
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