Cybersecurity Principal Specialist

3 weeks ago

Washington, Washington, D.C., United States United States Senate Full time
About the Role

The United States Senate is seeking a highly skilled Cybersecurity Principal Specialist to join our team. As a key member of our cybersecurity department, you will be responsible for leading proactive hunts based on advanced adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and evaluating anomalous activity to determine its maliciousness.

Key Responsibilities
  • Proactive Hunt: Use threat intelligence or anomaly analysis to identify potential adversary activity on the network that may have evaded current detections.
  • Detection Creation: Use technical expertise and understanding of adversary TTPs to create detections that address current gaps in our detection posture.
  • Incident Response: Serve as the technical lead in incident response actions, ensuring that Tier 1 and Tier 2 have correctly discovered the entire scope of the compromise.
  • Threat Emulation: Emulate the activity of advanced adversaries to ensure that alerts fire, telemetry collection is sufficient to identify sophisticated threats, and discovering further gaps in our detections posture.
Requirements
  • Seven to ten years of progressively responsible experience within a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)-type environment.
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to communicate both verbally and in writing with audiences at varying levels of technical capability.
  • Self-learning ability, with the ability to learn highly technical concepts with minimal instruction and without formal training.
  • Abstract thinking, with the ability to abstract away from atomic events and indicators and contextualize them with larger attack chains or process flows.
Benefits

The United States Senate offers a highly competitive benefits package for all SAA staff, including health care coverage, student loan reimbursement, professional development, transportation subsidy, TSP/retirement savings, and access to our Employee Assistance Program.

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