Cybersecurity Threat Analyst

Development InfoStructure

  • Virginia
  • $100,000-150,000 per year
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 1 month ago
  • Apply easily
Development InfoStructure LLC., (DEVIS) provides exceptional DevSecOps integration in our agile software development and embedded software solutions, combined with comprehensive IT management and consulting services to our federal, state, and local governments. The outcomes of our research and development, products and universe of services will support the international development community, multiple civilian agencies and the nation’s defense and intelligence communities. Our focused research, services and products include complex DevSecOps solutions to support refugee processing across multiple federal agencies, research and development for Signal Intelligence (SIGINT), Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I), Data Analytics, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) development and sensor capabilities supporting both the aerospace/defense and intelligence communities, as well as complex HHS comprehensive care coding requirements, and integrated management systems for our countries civilian agencies (FAA, FDIC, HOR, etc.).Our primary mission is to best serve the needs of our clients by solutioning with our stakeholder teams to ensure that the goals and objectives of our customers are proactively solutioned, such that opportunities to invest our time in developing long-term solutions and assets are abundant and move our clients forward efficiently.At DEVIS, we are enthusiastic about our research, our work and embracing an environment where all are supported in the mission, while maintaining a healthy work-life balance.OverviewIn this technical and hands-on role, you will focus on researching threats posed by cybercriminals to various systems, technologies, operations, and programs. You will analyze and conduct research to determine a cyber criminal’s capabilities, intentions, and attack approaches, including those with multiple phases. You will be responsible for proactively hunting and identifying malicious attacks against the organization's systems and infrastructure by utilizing various security tools such as SPLUNK and Tanium. In addition, you will be responsible for supporting remediation of any discovered threats and providing incident response. You will be collaborating hand in hand with Cloud and Splunk Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) & Engineers in RPC’s Security Operations Team, and when necessary, you will support them with engineering, upgrading, updating, and fine-tuning various security tools.This role will also include developing and documenting new and innovative threat-hunting processes to increase the security operation center team’s ability to find existing threats that are otherwise going unidentified or unnoticed.ResponsibilitiesSolid knowledge of building and designing queries, reports, and dashboards in SPLUNK Enterprise in order to extract log information from various sources and conduct threat hunting and incident response.Support Cyber Security Operations Team with Engineering Tasks including implementation, upgrade, update and maturing new Security Tool SetsExperience in Tanium Modules (Asset, Threat Response, Comply, Protect) to conduct Incident response and threat huntingExperienced in creating and fine-tuning notables, alerts, and dashboards in SPLUNKUtilize EDR, IDS, and other security tools to conduct cyber threat hunts and incident responseRapidly respond, escalate, and remediate incidents to minimize risk exposure and ensure system availability; proactively monitor internal and external-facing environmentsIdentify attacker tools, tactics, and procedures to develop indicators of compromise. Form and articulate expert opinions based on findings and analysisSeek opportunities to automate detection and remediation and reduce response times for incidentsProvide incident response support and coordination, including investigating security incidents and coordinating with other teams to contain and remediate the incident.Producing reports, metrics, and briefings that include perspectives on the behavior of adversariesCollaborate and support inquiries from cross-functional internal and external stakeholders such as system administrators, compliance, and data engineering teams, to ensure documentation is complete and in compliance with information security policiesManage and support the development of security operations playbooks to ensure threat detection, monitoring, response, and forensics activities align with best practices, minimize gaps in detection and response, and provide comprehensive mitigation of threatsEvaluate third-party products and services to verify they meet security and compliance requirementsDrive improvements in technical architecture, standards, and processes to meet company objectives and best security practicesDevelops technical solutions to autonomously verify compliance with required technical controlsPresent findings/reports to stakeholders every weekExperience with more than one or more enterprise-scale EDR and SIEM toolExperience consuming and analyzing Cyber Threat Intelligence for actionable takeaways.Required Skills and Qualifications
  • MA/MS (or equivalent experience), 5-7 years of experience OR Equivalent combination of education, technical training and certification (CISSP, C|EH, GIAC GREM, GCTI, GCFR, GCFA, Splunk Certified Cybersecurity Defense Analyst, Splunk Enterprise Security Certified Admin) and/or work experience
Experience in a cloud environment (console, IAM, security groups, etc.)Experience in building Splunk Technology Add-ons and configuring field extractions for various data sourcesKnowledge of a tier Splunk installation; indexers, forwarders, search heads, clustersExperience analyzing system, network, and application logs for attack techniques at all stages of the cyber kill chain or MITRE ATTACK FrameworkFamiliarity with ServiceNow cloud offeringFamiliarity with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and AnsibleClearance RequirementsMust be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearanceActive Secret Clearance preferredAdditional Perks/Benefits
  • Competitive salary compensation
  • 401k Retirement Contribution Savings Plan
Salary Range: $100,000 - $150,000Devis is an AA/EOE/M/F/Disabled/VET Employer committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to an individual’s race, color, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status, national origin or disability.Powered by JazzHR

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