Security Operations Center Support Specialist with Security Clearance - Washington, DC, United States - NAIS

Description

Contract/Location:

National Capital Region / Pensacola, FL Overview:
NAIS LLC is seeking an experienced SOC Support Specialist to provide services on a contract supporting a U.S
Government agency
The ideal candidate will have excellent problem-solving and communications skills as well as a previous work history of identifying, investigating, and escalating alerts and events to safeguard sensitive information from unauthorized access or harm caused by cybercriminals or malicious insiders
This position requires a positive attitude, strong organizational skills, a drive to focus and produce results, and the ability to lead a team to meet objectives and foster strong customer relationships in a complex environment
This is a full-time salaried position with compensation to be based on experience and overall strength of the candidate
In addition to receiving a competitive salary and generous health and personal benefits, the opportunity offers the ability to enhance the selectee's skill set among a talented and technically accomplished group of colleagues
On this contract, our team will support the U.S
Government agency across the following activities: 1) In collaboration with the client and security monitoring tools, investigate suspicious activity within IT systems and networks

Qualifications:

Clearance:
Top Secret / SCI

Citizenship:
Must be a U.S
Citizen


Education:
B.A./B.S

or M.A./M.S
degree from an accredited academic institution in a relevant field
An associate degree plus 4 years work experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree

Experience: 3+ years of experience required

Preferred:
Experience working in government IT and cybersecurity environments in U.S
civilian government or other federal government agencies

• One or

More Certifications Required:

ISACA Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Certification, GCIH – GIAC Certified Incident Handler, GSOC – GIAC Security Operations Certified, GMON – GIAC Continuous Monitoring Certifications.

Core Duties:

• Tracks and analyzes activity on servers, endpoints, networks, applications, databases, websites, and other technology systems
• Provides a critical layer of analysis needed to seek out any irregular activity that could suggest a security incident
• Ability to apply techniques for detecting host and network-based intrusions using intrusion detection technologies.