Cybersecurity Specialist

3 weeks ago

Arlington, Virginia, United States Demo - Maximus Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Cybersecurity Specialist to join our team in Arlington, VA. As a Cybersecurity Specialist, you will play a critical role in identifying, verifying, and understanding cyber events to respond effectively and recommend mitigation strategies.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Improve the cybersecurity posture by identifying, verifying, and understanding cyber events in order to respond effectively, recommend mitigation strategies, and deliver timely products that address and incorporate stakeholder needs.
  • Track incident notifications and identify trends and activities to prevent, respond, and recover.
  • Conduct incident management, triage, investigation, and analysis, including incident logging, tracking, and reporting.
  • Collect, analyze, and correlate security events and use discovered data to enable recommendation of mitigation of potential incidents.
  • Identify events that pose a threat to the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of information or systems.
  • Provide quality assurance accuracy, consistency, and reliability to security event data in tickets and reports.
  • Perform incident triage to include determining accuracy, scope, urgency, and impact.
  • Provide incident coordination and updates to Incident Response Teams (IRTs).
  • Notify management of suspected incidents and articulate the event's history, status, and potential impact.
  • Track and report on-going cyber security incidents to the primary incident handler.
  • Provide event and incident operational and executive reporting.
  • Respond to verified incidents utilizing a wide array of tools to mitigate active threats.
  • Provide updates to Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and incident response playbooks.

Requirements:

  • At least three years of experience in working as a network security analyst in a security operations center and/or in handling, responding, and managing computer security incidents.
  • Must have the ability and prior experience with analyzing information technology security events to discern events that qualify as a legitimate security incidents as opposed to nonincidents.
  • Must possess excellent verbal and written communications skills and ability produce clear and thorough security incident reports and briefings.
  • Must possess excellent organizational and attention to details skills.
  • Must possess a working knowledge of the various operating systems (e.g. Windows, OS X, Linux, etc.) commonly deployed in enterprise networks.
  • Must possess a working knowledge of network communications and routing protocols (e.g. TCP, UDP, ICMP, BGP, MPLS, etc.) and common internet applications and standards (e.g. SMTP, DNS, DHCP, SQL, HTTP, HTTPS, etc.).
  • Must have experience working with various event logging systems and must be proficient in the review of security event log analysis.
  • Must have proficiency in utilizing various packet capture (PCAP) applications/engines and in the analysis of PCAP data.
  • Must have experience with the identification and implementation of countermeasures or mitigating controls for deployment and implementation in the enterprise network environment.
  • Must possess Python and/or Powershell scripting abilities.
  • Must have proficiency in SIEM and IDS creation.
  • Must possess ability to mentor and train junior and midlevel analysts.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Demonstrated ability to build trusted advisor relationships with clients.
  • Experience supporting sales and business development.
  • Experience with financial management.

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