Incident Response Specialist

7 days ago

Beltsville, Maryland, United States Peraton Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Cyber Security Analyst to join our team at Peraton. As a Cyber Security Analyst, you will play a critical role in protecting our organization's assets and infrastructure from cyber threats.

Key Responsibilities
  • Provide monitoring support in a 24x7x365 environment to ensure the security and integrity of our systems and data.
  • Share in-depth knowledge and intelligence gained from cyber security events with stakeholders to inform decision-making and drive strategic initiatives.
  • Protect against and prevent potential cyber security threats and vulnerabilities through proactive measures and incident response.
  • Monitor and analyze network traffic to identify potential security threats and vulnerabilities, and develop and implement effective mitigation strategies.
  • Monitor and analyze Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) alerts to identify security issues for remediation and investigate events and incidents.
  • Provide response, technical assistance, and expertise for significant cyber incidents, investigations, and related operational events.
  • Contribute to security policies, procedures, and documentation to ensure compliance with industry standards and best practices.
  • Conduct advanced analysis and recommend remediation steps to address complex security issues.
  • Analyze network events to determine impact and develop effective mitigation strategies.
  • Develop and maintain analytical procedures to meet changing requirements and ensure continuous improvement.
  • Coordinate during all cyber incidents to ensure effective response and resolution.
  • Analyze identified malicious activity to determine weaknesses exploited, exploitation methods, effects on system and information, and develop effective mitigation strategies.
  • Determine tactics, techniques, and procedures for intrusion sets and develop effective countermeasures.
  • Work with stakeholders to resolve computer security incidents and vulnerability compliance, and ensure effective communication and collaboration.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure compliance with security standards and best practices, and drive strategic initiatives.
  • Collect and analyze intrusion artifacts (e.g., source code, malware, and system configuration) and use discovered data to enable mitigation of potential cyber defense incidents within the enterprise.
  • Perform real-time cyber defense incident handling (e.g., forensic collections, intrusion correlation and tracking, threat analysis, and direct system remediation) tasks to support incident response.
Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 0 years' experience required. An additional 4 years of experience may be substituted in lieu of degree.
  • Possess ONE of the following certifications: CND; CCNA-Security; CySA+; GICSP; GSEC; Security+ CE; SSCP
  • Experience with Security Operations Center, network event analysis, and/or threat analysis.
  • Knowledge of cloud computing technologies to include Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS).
  • Knowledge of traditional computing technologies architecture, design, and security.
  • Expertise in usage of log aggregation and security analysis tools.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of the Incident Response Lifecycle and how it applies to cloud, legacy, and hybrid environments.
  • Ability to identify remediation steps for cybersecurity events.
  • Demonstrated ability to utilize and leverage host-based tools to assist in determining scope and severity of a cybersecurity incident.
  • Demonstrated strong organizational skills.
  • Can analyze common encoding and obfuscation types (Base64, Caesar cipher, junk data, etc) and recognize advance types (XOR, AES, etc)
  • Can examine and investigate common packet traffic and protocols.
  • Can analyze common attack types (Cross-site scripting, directory traversal, denial of service, etc) and identify more advanced types (Ex. novel CVE related attacks)
  • Proven ability to operate in a time-sensitive environment.
  • Proven ability to communicate orally and written.
  • Proven ability to brief (technical/informational) senior leadership.
  • Ability to scope and perform impact analysis on incidents.
  • U.S. citizenship and an active Secret security clearance.
  • Ability to obtain a final Top Secret security clearance.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Knowledge of network architecture, design, and security.
  • Ability to analyze static and dynamic malware analysis reports.
  • Ability to analyze and identify anomalous code as malicious or benign.
  • Skill in detecting host and network-based intrusions via intrusion detection technologies.
  • Knowledge of which system files (e.g., log files, registry files, configuration files) contain relevant information and where to find those system files.
  • Skill in conducting trend analysis.
  • Knowledge of adversarial tactics, techniques, and procedures.
  • Knowledge of different classes of attacks (e.g., passive, active, insider, close-in, distribution attacks).
  • Knowledge of cyber attackers (e.g., script kiddies, insider threat, non-nation state sponsored, and nation sponsored).
  • Knowledge of cyber-attack stages (e.g., reconnaissance, scanning, enumeration, gaining access, escalation of privileges, maintaining access, network exploitation, covering tracks).
  • Knowledge of system administration, network, and operating system hardening techniques.
  • Knowledge of packet-level analysis using appropriate tools.
  • Knowledge of intersection of on-prem and cloud-based technologies.
  • Knowledge of system design and process methodologies.
  • Ability to coordinate with enterprise-wide cyber defense staff to validate network alerts.
  • Assist in the construction of signatures which can be implemented on cyber defense network tools in response to new or observed threats within the network environment or enclave.
About Peraton

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and non-traditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can't be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Target Salary Range

$66,000 - $106,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

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