Cybersecurity Specialist

7 days ago


Chantilly, Virginia, United States GCI, Inc. Full time
About the Role

GCI, Inc. is a leading provider of mission-critical solutions to our customers. As a Data Exploiter, you will be part of a team that embodies excellence, integrity, and professionalism. Our employees deliver unique, high-value mission solutions while leveraging the technological expertise of our valued workforce to meet critical mission requirements.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Data Exploiter to join our team. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for reviewing, manipulating, triaging, and analyzing large datasets to support operational and analytical requirements.

Key Responsibilities
  • Provide data exploitation support to our customers.
  • Assist with attribution efforts related to cyber activity.
  • Use a variety of tools and methods to extract information of foreign intelligence, counterintelligence, and targeting value from digital data.
  • Create a range of products that inform operations, drive targeting and collection, contribute to intelligence products, and support multiple customer needs.
  • Work with a team to analyze existing software applications and tools and recommend new technologies and methodologies to improve team performance.
  • Write and update technical documentation such as user manuals, system documentation, training materials, processes, and procedures.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with data scientists, engineers, developers, targeters, and analysts.
  • Provide recommendations for continuous improvement.
  • Work alongside other team members to sustain and advance our organization's capabilities.
  • Assist with attribution efforts related to cyber activities with a heavy focus on unattributed intrusions.
Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or other related discipline, or equivalent combination of education, technical certifications, training, and work/military experience.
  • Demonstrated experience writing Python scripts.
  • Experience conducting network traffic analysis.
  • Knowledge of different types of intrusion activity.
  • Ability to sift through large amounts of unstructured data for key data points (i.e., metadata and artifacts).
  • Demonstrated knowledge of incident response, containment, and mitigation.
  • Knowledge of common cyber-attack methods.
  • Demonstrated experience conducting detailed log analysis and system monitoring to understand system status, detect system breaches, and identify other system anomalies.
  • Demonstrated experience performing vulnerability identification, risk analysis, and remediation.
  • Ability to triage, review, identify, and correlate items of interest from numerous all-source datasets.
  • Ability to evaluate worldwide security events to assess system impact and/or risk (e.g., zero-day exploits, hardware failures, and/or cyber-attacks).
  • Ability to identify and document information that can fill critical gaps.
  • Create new methodologies/algorithms for data analysis and correlation.
  • Create entity/object profiles and derived data sets that enable future opportunities and analytical efforts.
  • Experience with technical collection abilities.
Desired Qualifications
  • Strong understanding of VPNs, VLANs, and TCP/IP.
  • Experience with Linux operating systems.
  • Experience with OS hardening using tools such as CIS-CAT.
  • Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
  • Experience with navigating an enterprise security accreditation process.
  • Demonstrated experience and understanding of network monitoring tools (e.g., Splunk, WSUS, Snare, Wireshark, and Solarwinds).
  • Knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK Framework.


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