Cirt Analyst

**CIRT Analyst**

**General Info**:

- Citizenship Required: US Citizenship
- Clearance: Active Secret
- Job Duration: Full Time
- Schedule: Hybrid (3 days on-site, 2 days remote)
- Site: Falls Church, VA (Hybrid)
- Travel: Less than 10%

**Responsibilities Include**:

- Respond to and manage all cyber incidents reported by lower or higher echelons
- Participate in investigations of cyber incidents using a range of toolsets
- Produce incident assessment and response reports, along with recommended remediation activities, for government customers
- Maintain strong awareness of cyber threats and exploits potentially affecting networks/systems
- Document daily work in the ITSM ticketing system
- Service Desk Support to include 24/7/365 Service Desk Support, Tier1 and Tier 2 support, and service desk ticket escalation support
- Network Operations Center Support to include 24/7/365 network monitoring and control or network management, architecture data management support, and enterprise data processing and hosting support
- Carrying out triage on security events, and support the incident management process
- Identifying and responding to incidents, to prevent or limit damage to assets, and report incidents
- Detecting and analyzing incidents, coordinating activities with other stakeholders for containing, eradicating, and recovering from incidents
- Developing advanced analytics and countermeasures to protect critical assets from various cyber threats
- Performing IDS monitoring and analysis, network traffic and log analysis, prioritization and differentiation between potential intrusion attempts, determination of false alarms, insider threat and APT detection, and malware analysis/forensics
- Security Engineering Support to include conducting market research, evaluating products, and providing prototyping, integration, development, deployment, recapitalization, and O&M support for a variety of software, computing, and networking technologies
- Hardware and Software Maintenance Support

**Required Education & Technical Skillset**:

- Education: BS/BA and/or 7+ years of IT experience. Will consider other combinations of years of experience, degree, and certifications.
- Required Experience: Prior experience with cyber incident response, especially on DoD networks; digital forensics
- Required Technical Skills: Understanding of enterprise network architecture, IPv4 subnetting, and TCP/IP network principles
- Required Skills and Abilities: Good writing/documentation skills, with capability of interfacing with key government partners on operational and technical matters

**Required Certification(s)**:

- CompTIA Security+ CE

**Desired Certification(s)**:

- CISSP or GCIH; ITIL v3 or 4

**Security Clearance Level**: SECRET Clearance is required

Pay: $115,000.00 - $125,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Disability insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid holidays
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Professional development assistance
- Vision insurance

Compensation package:

- Yearly pay

Experience level:

- 7 years

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday

**Experience**:

- Cybersecurity: 7 years (required)

License/Certification:

- CompTIA Security+ (required)
- CISSP (preferred)
- GCIH (preferred)

Security clearance:

- Secret (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Falls Church, VA 22042