VISA:  W-2 or 1099 candidates only.  No third parties.

Years of experience: 5+ years’ experience.

Interviews: Either Webcam or in-person.

Job Description:

The SOC Analyst is a tier 2 tech resource responsible for monitoring, detecting, analyzing, remediating, and reporting on cyber events and incidents impacting the tech infrastructure of the District of Columbia. Serves as advanced escalation point.

Summary

The SOC Analyst is a tier 2 tech resource responsible for monitoring, detecting, analyzing, remediating, and reporting on cyber events and incidents impacting the tech infrastructure of the District of Columbia. Serves as advanced escalation point.

Specific tasks

1.         Provide in-depth cybersecurity analysis, and trending of log, event data, and alerts from diverse network devices and applications within the enterprise to identify and troubleshoot specific cybersecurity incidents and make sound recommendations that enable expeditious remediation.

2.         Conduct security tool/application (for example, mcafee siem) tuning engagements with analysts and engineers to develop/adjust rules and analyst response procedures and reduce false-positives from alerting.

3.         Utilize advanced background and experience in information technology and incident response handling to scrutinize escalated cybersecurity events from tier 1 analyst—distinguishing these events from benign activities, and escalating confirmed incidents to the incident response lead.

4.         Recognize, create and ingest indicators of compromise (ioc’s) for attacker tools, tactics, and procedures into network security tools/applications (for example, mcafee siem, palo alto content filter, anomali threatstream) to protect the government of the District of Columbia network.

5.         Provide technical analytical guidance to, and quality-proofing of tier 1 analysts analytical advisories and assessments prior to release from soc.

6.         Coordinate with and provide expert technical support to enterprise-wide technicians and staff to resolve confirmed incidents.

7.         Report common and repeat problems (trend analysis) to soc management and propose process and technical improvements to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the incident handling process.

8.         Respond to inbound requests via phone and other electronic means for technical assistance, and resolve problems independently. Coordinate escalations and collaborate with internal technology teams to ensure timely resolution of issues.

Minimum qualifications

1.         Five years of hands-on operational experience as a cybersecurity analyst/engineer in a security operations center, or equivalent knowledge in areas such as; cybersecurity operations, incident analysis and handling, vulnerability management, log analysis, and intrusion detection.

2.         In-depth understanding of cybersecurity attack countermeasures for adversarial activities such as network probing and scanning, distributed denial of service (ddos), phishing, malicious code activity such as worms, trojans, viruses, etc.

3.         In-depth hands-on experience analyzing and responding to security events and incidents with a majority of the following technologies and/or techniques; leading security information and event management (siem) technologies, intrusion detection/prevention systems (ids/ips), network- and host- based firewalls, data leak protection (dlp), database activity monitoring (dam), web content filtering, vulnerability scanning tools, endpoint protection, secure coding, etc.

4.         Excellent interpersonal, organizational, oral, communication and customer service skills.

5.         Strong knowledge of cybersecurity attack methodology to include tactics and techniques, and associated countermeasures.

6.         Strong knowledge of tcp/ip protocols, services, networking, and experience identifying, analyzing, containing, and eradicating cybersecurity threats.

7.         Adept at proactive search of the internet and other sources to identify cybersecurity threat countermeasures, not previously ingested into network security tools/applications, to apply to protect the government of the District of Columbia network.

8.         Excellent ability to multi-task, prioritize, and manage time and tasks effectively.

9.         Ability to work effectively in stressful situations.

10.       Strong attention to detail.

The ideal candidate will have a technical background with significant previous experience in an enterprise environment with the following:

1.         Previous experience leading a soc team unit responsible for analysis and correlation of cybersecurity event data

2.         Skilled in understanding, recognizing, and detecting cybersecurity exploits, vulnerabilities, and intrusions in host and network-based systems

3.         Comprehensive knowledge of defense-in-depth principles and network security  architecture.

4.         Experience with review of raw log files, and data correlation of firewall, network flow, ids, and system logs.

5.         Experience in host forensics.

6.         Knowledge of common network tools (e.g., ping, traceroute, nslookup).

7.         Comprehensive understanding of network services, windows/unix port, services.

8.         Understanding of database structure and queries.

Minimum education/certification requirements.

1.         Undergraduate degree in computer science, information technology, or related field.

2.         Gcia, gced, gpen, gcih or similar industry certification desired

This position requires shift work in a 11x5 environment, and the capacity to work evening, overnight, and weekend hours as required. This position does not require a U.S. Government security clearance. On-going travel is not anticipated.

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Contract job description

Responsibilities:

1. Coordinates it project management, engineering, maintenance, qa, and risk management.

2. Plans, coordinates, and monitors project activities.

3. Develops technical applications to support users.

4. Develops, implements, maintains and enforces documented standards and procedures for the design, development, installation, modification, and documentation of assigned systems.

5. Provides training for system products and procedures.

6. Performs application upgrades.

7. Performs, monitoring, maintenance, or reporting on real- time databases, real-time network and serial data communications, and real-time graphics and logic applications.

8. Troubleshoots problems.

9. Ensures project life-cycle is in compliance with district standards and procedures.

Minimum education/certification requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in information technology or related field or equivalent experience.