Cybersecurity Operations Specialist

3 days ago

Bloomington, Illinois, United States MITRE Full time
Join Our Team as a Cybersecurity Operations Analyst

At MITRE, we're committed to tackling our nation's toughest challenges and creating a fulfilling life for our employees. As a not-for-profit corporation, we work for the public interest, free from commercial conflicts. Our R&D centers create lasting impact in fields like cybersecurity, healthcare, aviation, defense, and enterprise transformation.

We're seeking a skilled Operations Analyst to join our Information Security department. This role offers a challenging opportunity to work with a diverse set of security disciplines, including incident response, forensics, reverse engineering, malware analysis, intrusion detection, network security, and system security.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Respond to security alerts, investigate signs of compromise, and take appropriate action.
  • 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.
Requirements:
  • 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

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