IT Cybersecurity Specialist

1 month ago

Washington, United States Non-Departmental Agency Full time
Summary

This position is located in the Security and Governance (S&G) Directorate within the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO), Peace Corp Headquarters, Washington DC. The mission of S&G Directorate is to institutionalize IT security processes and standards by promoting sound business practices/IT decisions and achieve compliance with federal regulations and standards.



Duties

The IT Cybersecurity Specialist serves as the Senior Incident Response Analyst within the Security Operations Center (SOC). The SOC Incident Response Team (SIRT) performs Incident Response investigations to develop a comprehensive diagnosis of cyber incident breaches. Response investigations to develop a comprehensive diagnosis of cyber incident breaches. SOC personnel provide front line response for digital forensics/incident response and proactively hunt for malicious cyber activity for the agency's critical infrastructure.

The IT Cybersecurity Specialist serves as a subject matter expert on IT intrusion detection and utilizes a broad spectrum of cross-disciplinary technical backgrounds and skills to conduct research, testing and diagnostic analytics on threats and vulnerabilities. Incumbent conducts extensive coordination on IT Security processes to resolve and respond to intrusion attempts and incidents.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Serves as a Senior Incident Analyst for the OCIO SIRT through all phases of the incident response process (preparation, identification, containment, eradication, recovery, lessons learned).
  • Monitors and provides advice/guidance to other SIRT incident handlers to ensure compliance with standard operating procedures, existing Peace Corp security policies, CISA directives, and DHS Binding Operational Directives, and reporting requirements in addition to identifying the root cause of the intrusion and monitoring for signs of an advanced adversarial intrusion.
  • Manages reported incidents by providing a single point of service throughout the incident lifecycle of a high priority incident.
  • Serves as a subject matter expert (SME) for IT intrusion detection and analysis for state-of-the-art and emerging techniques and products and recommends appropriate technical strategies in resolving complex and persistent IT security challenges.
  • Performs event correlation using information gathered from various sources within the enterprise to gain situational awareness and determine the effectiveness of an observed attack.
  • Detects intrusions across multiple platforms, specialized administration (DNS, Web, Databases, Azure Cloud etc.) to allow for fact and knowledge-based monitoring of enterprise network and system security devices.
  • Analyzes identified malicious network and system log activity to determine weakness exploited, exploitation methods, effects on system and system information.

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