Sr. InfoSec Operations Analyst

1 month ago

McLean, United States MITRE Full time

Why choose between doing meaningful work and having a fulfilling life? At MITRE, you can have both. That's because MITRE people are committed to tackling our nation's toughest challenges—and we're committed to the long-term well-being of our employees. MITRE is different from most technology companies. We are a not-for-profit corporation chartered to work for the public interest, with no commercial conflicts to influence what we do. The R&D centers we operate for the government create lasting impact in fields as diverse as cybersecurity, healthcare, aviation, defense, and enterprise transformation. We're making a difference every day—working for a safer, healthier, and more secure nation and world. Our workplace reflects our values. We offer competitive benefits, exceptional professional development opportunities, and a culture of innovation that embraces diversity, inclusion, flexibility, collaboration, and career growth. If this sounds like the choice you want to make, then choose MITRE—and make a difference with us.

MITRE’s Information Security department seeks an Operations Analyst to respond to and investigate cyber security incidents within the organization. This position offers a challenging opportunity to be exposed to a diverse set of security disciplines, including incident response, forensics, reverse engineering, malware analysis, intrusion detection, network security, and system security. MITRE has long been a source of cyber security innovation and continues to seek dedicated and talented individuals.

Roles & Responsibilities:

  • Respond to security alerts, investigate for signs of compromise and react accordingly.

  • Track and document security events and incidents in a ticketing system.

  • Analyze log data for signs of malicious activity in a SIEM.

  • Develop new analytics and apply mitigations for adversary Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs).

  • Automate workflows in a SOAR tool.

  • Hunt for undetected indicators of compromise.

  • Develop new ways to use existing data to identify malicious activity.

  • Perform Incident Response actions such as forensics, memory analysis, etc.

Basic Qualifications:

  • Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with relevant experience who can immediately contribute at this job step; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.

  • Must be detail oriented and able to consistently follow incident investigation process.

  • Must have good analytical, written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.

  • Must be able to work well as part of a team and be self-motivated to work on individual projects.

  • Must have prior experience with cloud monitoring and response or analytic development in at least one major cloud provider’s environment (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

  • Must have prior hands-on experience analyzing and responding to cyber events, including network, endpoint, server and cloud.

  • Must have prior hands-on experience with threat hunting.

  • This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Applied knowledge of Cyber Security concepts.

  • Familiarity with Linux, Mac, and Windows Operating Systems.

  • An in-depth understanding of TCP/IP network protocols and application layer protocols (e.g., HTTP, SMTP, DNS, etc.).

  • Experience analyzing adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and developing defenses and/or detections for them.

  • Scripting experience, preferably with Python.

  • Experience with Splunk or Elastic Search.

  • Hands-on cloud incident response experience.

  • Works well independently and with the team.

  • Technical leadership skills.

  • Solves complex problems.

  • Adaptability to new tools, architectures, and policies.

  • Prior experience with network, host, and memory forensics.

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

None

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

Secret

Work Location Type:

Hybrid

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