Cybersecurity Threat Detection Specialist

2 months ago


Washington, United States Capgemini Government Solutions Full time
About the Role

Capgemini Government Solutions is seeking a highly skilled Cybersecurity Threat Detection Specialist to join our team in supporting our government clients. This role requires a Content Developer to provide support for onsite Insider Threat support services, providing immediate investigation and resolution. Any qualified Cyber Threat Detection Specialist will need to have an active Top-Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.

Key Responsibilities
  • Develop and Implement SIEM Solutions: Develop, implement, maintain, and support SIEM dashboards, reports, alerts, and knowledge objects.
  • Create Custom Correlation Rules: Create baselines, queries, dashboards, and visualization to support customer requirements shared with the SecOps and operational teams to identify trends, etc.
  • Manage and Administer Security Solutions: Manage and administer the tuning of rules, triggers, policies, signatures, and custom content for specialized CND applications and systems.
  • Apply Advanced Threat Detection Techniques: Apply knowledge of regular expressions to create extractions and apply working knowledge of Power Shell or other scripting language(s).
  • Develop and Maintain Custom Correlation Rules: Utilize knowledge of latest cyber threats and attack vectors to develop and or maintain custom correlation rules from all indexed sources to support continuous event monitoring and alerting.
  • Participate in Security Discussions: Participate in discussions to make recommendations on improving SOC cyber visibility, process improvements, and reducing the incident remediation period.
  • Review and Enhance Security Solutions: Review all existing network event collections to determine if relevant data is present and make technical recommendations to develop or enhance alerting actions.
  • Deliver Forward-Thinking Solutions: Enhance customer's ability to accomplish mission initiatives by delivering forward-thinking solutions that are not defined by requirements.
  • Author Reports and Interface with Customers: Author reports and/or interface with customers for ad-hoc requests.
  • Provide Expert Guidance and Mentorship: Provide expert guidance and mentorship to junior analysts.
Required Qualifications
  • US Citizenship and Top-Secret Clearance: US Citizen. Must have an active Top-Secret clearance (SCI eligible).
  • Education and Experience: Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
  • SIEM Experience: Five years of experience in developing, implementing, and managing SIEM correlation rules and content (such as Splunk, ArcSight, Kibana, LogRhythm).
  • Technical Skills: Experience with writing audit log parsers for SIEM data structures such as ArcSight's CEF or Splunk's SPL.
  • Advanced Knowledge of Security Protocols: Advanced knowledge of TCP/IP (Transport protocols geared to Network Engineering – Maybe change to encryption methods e.g. SSL/TLS and PKI) protocols, experience configuring and implementing various technical security solutions, extensive experience providing analysis and trending of security log data from security devices.
  • SIEM Tuning and Logic: Must have demonstrated the ability to tune the SIEM event correlation rules and logic to filter out security events associated with known and well-established network behavior, known false positives, and/or known errors.
  • Correlation Rules and Data Models: Experience developing advanced correlation rules utilizing stats and data models for cyber threat detection.
  • Network Monitoring Tools: Experience with Network Monitoring Tools such as proxy, load balancing, IDS/IPS, and packet capturing tools.
  • Scripting and Automation: Experience in a scripting language (e.g. Bash, Powershell, etc) and automating SOC processes/workflow.
  • Security Methodologies and SOC Processes: Experience implementing security methodologies and SOC processes.
  • Problem-Solving and Critical Thinking: Ability to effectively work independently and as a team member, with excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and analytical skills with the ability to de-construct problems.
  • Work Experience: Work experience with Security Operations Center (SOC) or Industry Red Team.
  • Communication Skills: Must possess strong written and verbal communication skills and must be capable of understanding, documenting, communicating, and presenting technical issues in a non-technical manner to audiences with varying degrees of technical expertise.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Active SCI Clearance: Highly Preferred to have an Active SCI.
  • Splunk Certification: Splunk Enterprise Security Admin, Splunk Certified Developer certification.
  • UAM, UEBA, and DLP Tools: Extensive experience with User activity monitoring (UAM),User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) and DLP tools.
  • Insider Threat Trigger Policies: Expertise in developing Insider Threat trigger policies.
  • Event Analysis and Remediation: Investigate and analyze events of interest within the SIEM, document workflows, and identify process improvements in the handling and remediation of cybersecurity events.
  • Visibility Gaps and Cyber Defense Systems: Identifies and remediates visibility gaps of cyber defense systems.
  • COTS Applications and Linux/Windows Administration: Experience with Installing and administering COTS applications on RHEL Linux and/or Windows.
  • Enterprise Cybersecurity Toolsets: Hands-on experience with one of the enterprise cybersecurity toolsets: HBSS/ESS, Trellix and ePolicy Orchestrator.
  • Vulnerability Tracking and Scanning Systems: Hands-on experience running Tenable or vulnerability tracking/scanning systems.
  • Certifications: Other highly desired certifications: CEH, CYSA+, GICSP, SSCP, CND.
About Capgemini Government Solutions

Capgemini Government Solutions is a global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology. The Group is guided every day by its purpose of unleashing human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future. It is a responsible and diverse organization of over 360,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong 55-year heritage and deep industry expertise, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to address the entire breadth of their business needs, from strategy and design to operations, fueled by the fast-evolving and innovative world of cloud, data, AI, connectivity, software, digital engineering and platforms. The Group reported in 2022 global revenues of €22 billion.



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