Cybersecurity Analyst III

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) is seeking a highly skilled Cybersecurity Analyst III to join our team. As a key member of our cybersecurity program, you will be responsible for identifying and remediating security threats, designing defensive measures, and monitoring information collected from various sources to protect our information systems and networks.

• Provide senior-level support regarding data analytics strategies based on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework.
• Analyze threat information from multiple sources, disciplines, and agencies across the Intelligence Community; Synthesize and place intelligence information in context; draw insights about the possible implications.
• Ensure threats and vulnerabilities are identified as early as possible and mitigated.
• Provide senior-level support regarding the development of cyber threat indicators (attacks and compromise) monitoring to maintain awareness of the highly dynamic operating environment; Coordinate and perform the collection, processing, analysis, and dissemination of cyber threat/warning assessments.
• Ensure vulnerabilities are identified as early as possible and mitigated.
• Provide senior-level support regarding the intelligence of data collected from various cyber defense tools (e.g., IDS alerts, firewalls, network traffic logs) to analyze events that occur within WMATA's environments (on-premises and cloud) for the purposes of mitigating threats.
• Ensure vulnerabilities are identified as early as possible and mitigated.
• Provide senior-level support regarding the development of assessment plans and measures of performance and/or effectiveness. Conduct strategic and operational effectiveness assessments as required for cyber events. Determine whether systems performed as expected and provide input to the determination of operational effectiveness. Ensure WMATA has a properly managed cyber analysis framework.
• Provide senior-level support regarding the assimilation of data and information from analytics and intelligence to support the creation of dashboards which inform senior leaders regarding the security posture of the organization.
• Generate routine and urgent reports and action plans to support enhanced security procedures and response measures to ongoing or imminent threats.
• Ensure Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) has a properly managed and reportable cyber threat intelligence awareness program.
• Provide senior-level support regarding the analysis of defensive and simulated offensive results, techniques used, and information collected from various sources to identify, analyze, and report events that occur or might occur within the network to protect information, information systems, and networks from threats.
• Ensure vulnerabilities are identified as early as possible and mitigated.
• Provide senior-level support regarding the response to routine and urgent cybersecurity situations within the pertinent domain to mitigate immediate and potential cyber threats.
• Use mitigation, preparedness, and response and recovery approaches, as needed, to maximize safety, preservation of property, and information security. Investigate and analyze all relevant incident response activities.
• Provide senior-level support regarding incident response support functions through technical activities that gather evidence on criminal or foreign intelligence entities to mitigate possible or real-time threats, protect against insider threats, sabotage, international terrorist activities, or to support other intelligence activities.
• Investigate, analyze, and respond to cyber incidents within the network environment or enclave. Ensure the organization can respond to attacks quickly and eliminate threats.
• Provide senior-level support regarding the consultation for the support program to establish relationships, between the incident response team and other groups, both internal (e.g., legal department) and external (e.g., law enforcement agencies, vendors, public relations professionals).
• Ensure the organization can respond to attacks quickly and eliminate threats.
• Provide senior-level support regarding the process to apply tactics, techniques, and procedures for a full range of investigative tools and processes to include, but not limited to, interviews, cyber surveillance, counter surveillance, and surveillance detection, and appropriately balance the benefits of intelligence gathering.
• Ensure vulnerabilities are identified as early as possible and mitigated.
• Provide senior-level support regarding the activities to produce timely, fused, all-source cyber operations intelligence and/or indications and warnings intelligence products (e.g., threat assessments, briefings, intelligence studies, country studies).
• Analyze collected information to identify vulnerabilities and potential for exploitation.
• Ensure the reporting of all cyber events/activity are presented in a timely and actionable media; relevant to cyber intelligence and security best practices.
• Provide senior-level support regarding detailed intelligence plans to satisfy cyber operations requirements. Collaborate with cyber operations planners to identify, validate, and impose requirements for collection and analysis. Participate in targeting selection, validation, synchronization, and execution of cyber actions. Synchronize intelligence activities to support organization objectives in cyberspace.
• Ensure the reporting of all cyber events/activity are presented in a timely and actionable media; relevant to cyber intelligence and security best practices.
• Provide senior-level support regarding the monitoring of all defensive measures and information collected from various sources to identify, analyze, and report events that occur or might occur within the network to protect information, information systems, and networks from internal and external threats.
• Takes appropriate action by reporting, remediating and/or providing preventive recommendations being the liaison between the security engineering and authorizing official (as needed).
• Ensure the analysis of the information (data) from various sources within the enterprise and recognize a possible security violation or threat.
• Provide senior-level support regarding the analysis to identify, collect, examine, and preserve evidence using controlled and documented analytical and investigative techniques.
• The analysis of digital evidence and investigates computer security incidents to derive useful information in support of system/network vulnerability mitigation.
• To ensure forensically sound collection of images and inspect to discern possible mitigation/remediation on enterprise systems.

• A Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university.
• Four (4) years of experience as a cybersecurity officer/engineer, information systems security officer, or specialized expertise in cyber policy, intelligence, analytics, budget, audit, metrics, or training such that it meets the specific role posted.
• Preferred: A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity or a related technical field.
• Satisfactorily complete the medical examination for this position, if required. The incumbent must be able to perform the essential functions of this position either with or without reasonable accommodations.

• Consideration will be given to applicants whose resumes demonstrate the required education and experience. Applicants should include all relevant education and work experience.
• Evaluation criteria may include one or more of the following: Skills and/or behavioral assessment, Personal interview, Verification of education and experience (including certifications and licenses), Criminal Background Check (a criminal conviction is not an automatic bar to employment), Medical examination including a drug and alcohol screening (for safety-sensitive positions), Review of a current motor vehicle report.

WMATA is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other status protected by applicable federal law.