Senior Cyber Incident Monitoring Analyst
Posted on Oct 8, 2024 by Peraton
Beltsville, MD
Admin & Secretarial
Immediate Start
Annual Salary
Full-Time
Responsibilities:
Peraton is seeking to hire a Senior Cyber Incident Monitoring Analyst to become part of Peraton’s Department of State (DoS) Diplomatic Security Cyber Mission (DSCM) program providing leading cyber and technology security experience to enable innovative, effective and secure business processes. This role supports the Cyber Incident Response Team (CIRT).
Location: Beltsville, MD. Required: Work on-site for the first 90 days. After the 90 day period, a hybrid schedule may be offered. The selected candidate must be able to support a hybrid and flexible schedule.
This position will support Sunday – Thursday 2:00pm to 10:00pm.
In this role you will:
Support the Cyber Incident Response Team (CIRT) and will be responsible for running day to day operations and analysis of the team.
Develop the overall maturity of the team both from a holistic and professional level.
This person is also the liaison between other CIRT teams and contract/government management.
Provide Monitoring support in a 24x7x365 environment.
Provide leadership and mentoring to security analysts.
Share in-depth knowledge and intelligence gained from cyber security events with stakeholders.
Protect against and prevent potential cyber security threats and vulnerabilities.
Monitor and analyze network traffic to identify potential security threats and vulnerabilities.
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.
Develop and implement training programs for monitoring analysts.
Develop and maintain security policies, procedures, and documentation.
Conduct detailed research to increase awareness and readiness levels of the security operations center.
Conduct advanced analysis and recommend remediation steps.
Analyze network events to determine impact.
Conduct all-source research to determine threat capability and intent.
Develop and maintain analytical procedures to meet changing requirements.
Develop content for cyber defense tools.
Analyze identified malicious activity to determine weaknesses exploited, exploitation methods, effects on system and information.
Determine tactics, techniques, and procedures for intrusion sets.
Work with stakeholders to resolve computer security incidents and vulnerability compliance.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure compliance with security standards and best practices.
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.
#DSCM
Qualifications:
Required:
Bachelor's degree and minimum 9 Years experience; 7 Years with Masters; 4 Years with PhD. Four (4) additional years of experience can be substituted in lieu of the degree requirement.
Must possess ONE of the following certifications or the ability to obtain prior to start date:CASP+ CE, CCNP Security, CEH, CFR, CHFI, CISA, CISSP (or Associate), Cloud+, CND, CySA+, GCED, GCIH, GICSP, or SSCP
Security Operations Center experience, network event analysis and/or threat analysis.
Tuning and/or configuring SIEM and vulnerability tools experience.
Cloud computing technologies to include Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) experience.
Expertise in traditional computing technologies architecture, design and security.
Expertise in planning, implementation and usage of log aggregation and security analysis tools.
Demonstrated knowledge utilizing native security and logging tools and centralized log aggregation utilizing a variety of methods.
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 forensic tools to assist in determining scope and severity of a cybersecurity incident.
Proven ability to brief (technical/informational) senior leadership.
Ability to scope and perform impact analysis on incidents.
U.S. Citizenship required
An active Secret security clearance.
Preferred/Desired:
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.
Experience in developing and delivering comprehensive training programs.
Experience collaborating with cross functional teams.
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.
Provides cybersecurity recommendations to leadership based on significant threats and vulnerabilities.
Peraton Overview:
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 nontraditional 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:
$104,000 - $166,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
Peraton is seeking to hire a Senior Cyber Incident Monitoring Analyst to become part of Peraton’s Department of State (DoS) Diplomatic Security Cyber Mission (DSCM) program providing leading cyber and technology security experience to enable innovative, effective and secure business processes. This role supports the Cyber Incident Response Team (CIRT).
Location: Beltsville, MD. Required: Work on-site for the first 90 days. After the 90 day period, a hybrid schedule may be offered. The selected candidate must be able to support a hybrid and flexible schedule.
This position will support Sunday – Thursday 2:00pm to 10:00pm.
In this role you will:
Support the Cyber Incident Response Team (CIRT) and will be responsible for running day to day operations and analysis of the team.
Develop the overall maturity of the team both from a holistic and professional level.
This person is also the liaison between other CIRT teams and contract/government management.
Provide Monitoring support in a 24x7x365 environment.
Provide leadership and mentoring to security analysts.
Share in-depth knowledge and intelligence gained from cyber security events with stakeholders.
Protect against and prevent potential cyber security threats and vulnerabilities.
Monitor and analyze network traffic to identify potential security threats and vulnerabilities.
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.
Develop and implement training programs for monitoring analysts.
Develop and maintain security policies, procedures, and documentation.
Conduct detailed research to increase awareness and readiness levels of the security operations center.
Conduct advanced analysis and recommend remediation steps.
Analyze network events to determine impact.
Conduct all-source research to determine threat capability and intent.
Develop and maintain analytical procedures to meet changing requirements.
Develop content for cyber defense tools.
Analyze identified malicious activity to determine weaknesses exploited, exploitation methods, effects on system and information.
Determine tactics, techniques, and procedures for intrusion sets.
Work with stakeholders to resolve computer security incidents and vulnerability compliance.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure compliance with security standards and best practices.
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.
#DSCM
Qualifications:
Required:
Bachelor's degree and minimum 9 Years experience; 7 Years with Masters; 4 Years with PhD. Four (4) additional years of experience can be substituted in lieu of the degree requirement.
Must possess ONE of the following certifications or the ability to obtain prior to start date:CASP+ CE, CCNP Security, CEH, CFR, CHFI, CISA, CISSP (or Associate), Cloud+, CND, CySA+, GCED, GCIH, GICSP, or SSCP
Security Operations Center experience, network event analysis and/or threat analysis.
Tuning and/or configuring SIEM and vulnerability tools experience.
Cloud computing technologies to include Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) experience.
Expertise in traditional computing technologies architecture, design and security.
Expertise in planning, implementation and usage of log aggregation and security analysis tools.
Demonstrated knowledge utilizing native security and logging tools and centralized log aggregation utilizing a variety of methods.
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 forensic tools to assist in determining scope and severity of a cybersecurity incident.
Proven ability to brief (technical/informational) senior leadership.
Ability to scope and perform impact analysis on incidents.
U.S. Citizenship required
An active Secret security clearance.
Preferred/Desired:
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.
Experience in developing and delivering comprehensive training programs.
Experience collaborating with cross functional teams.
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.
Provides cybersecurity recommendations to leadership based on significant threats and vulnerabilities.
Peraton Overview:
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 nontraditional 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:
$104,000 - $166,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
Reference: 203698143
https://jobs.careeraddict.com/post/96039731
Senior Cyber Incident Monitoring Analyst
Posted on Oct 8, 2024 by Peraton
Beltsville, MD
Admin & Secretarial
Immediate Start
Annual Salary
Full-Time
Responsibilities:
Peraton is seeking to hire a Senior Cyber Incident Monitoring Analyst to become part of Peraton’s Department of State (DoS) Diplomatic Security Cyber Mission (DSCM) program providing leading cyber and technology security experience to enable innovative, effective and secure business processes. This role supports the Cyber Incident Response Team (CIRT).
Location: Beltsville, MD. Required: Work on-site for the first 90 days. After the 90 day period, a hybrid schedule may be offered. The selected candidate must be able to support a hybrid and flexible schedule.
This position will support Sunday – Thursday 2:00pm to 10:00pm.
In this role you will:
Support the Cyber Incident Response Team (CIRT) and will be responsible for running day to day operations and analysis of the team.
Develop the overall maturity of the team both from a holistic and professional level.
This person is also the liaison between other CIRT teams and contract/government management.
Provide Monitoring support in a 24x7x365 environment.
Provide leadership and mentoring to security analysts.
Share in-depth knowledge and intelligence gained from cyber security events with stakeholders.
Protect against and prevent potential cyber security threats and vulnerabilities.
Monitor and analyze network traffic to identify potential security threats and vulnerabilities.
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.
Develop and implement training programs for monitoring analysts.
Develop and maintain security policies, procedures, and documentation.
Conduct detailed research to increase awareness and readiness levels of the security operations center.
Conduct advanced analysis and recommend remediation steps.
Analyze network events to determine impact.
Conduct all-source research to determine threat capability and intent.
Develop and maintain analytical procedures to meet changing requirements.
Develop content for cyber defense tools.
Analyze identified malicious activity to determine weaknesses exploited, exploitation methods, effects on system and information.
Determine tactics, techniques, and procedures for intrusion sets.
Work with stakeholders to resolve computer security incidents and vulnerability compliance.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure compliance with security standards and best practices.
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.
#DSCM
Qualifications:
Required:
Bachelor's degree and minimum 9 Years experience; 7 Years with Masters; 4 Years with PhD. Four (4) additional years of experience can be substituted in lieu of the degree requirement.
Must possess ONE of the following certifications or the ability to obtain prior to start date:CASP+ CE, CCNP Security, CEH, CFR, CHFI, CISA, CISSP (or Associate), Cloud+, CND, CySA+, GCED, GCIH, GICSP, or SSCP
Security Operations Center experience, network event analysis and/or threat analysis.
Tuning and/or configuring SIEM and vulnerability tools experience.
Cloud computing technologies to include Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) experience.
Expertise in traditional computing technologies architecture, design and security.
Expertise in planning, implementation and usage of log aggregation and security analysis tools.
Demonstrated knowledge utilizing native security and logging tools and centralized log aggregation utilizing a variety of methods.
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 forensic tools to assist in determining scope and severity of a cybersecurity incident.
Proven ability to brief (technical/informational) senior leadership.
Ability to scope and perform impact analysis on incidents.
U.S. Citizenship required
An active Secret security clearance.
Preferred/Desired:
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.
Experience in developing and delivering comprehensive training programs.
Experience collaborating with cross functional teams.
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.
Provides cybersecurity recommendations to leadership based on significant threats and vulnerabilities.
Peraton Overview:
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 nontraditional 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:
$104,000 - $166,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
Peraton is seeking to hire a Senior Cyber Incident Monitoring Analyst to become part of Peraton’s Department of State (DoS) Diplomatic Security Cyber Mission (DSCM) program providing leading cyber and technology security experience to enable innovative, effective and secure business processes. This role supports the Cyber Incident Response Team (CIRT).
Location: Beltsville, MD. Required: Work on-site for the first 90 days. After the 90 day period, a hybrid schedule may be offered. The selected candidate must be able to support a hybrid and flexible schedule.
This position will support Sunday – Thursday 2:00pm to 10:00pm.
In this role you will:
Support the Cyber Incident Response Team (CIRT) and will be responsible for running day to day operations and analysis of the team.
Develop the overall maturity of the team both from a holistic and professional level.
This person is also the liaison between other CIRT teams and contract/government management.
Provide Monitoring support in a 24x7x365 environment.
Provide leadership and mentoring to security analysts.
Share in-depth knowledge and intelligence gained from cyber security events with stakeholders.
Protect against and prevent potential cyber security threats and vulnerabilities.
Monitor and analyze network traffic to identify potential security threats and vulnerabilities.
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.
Develop and implement training programs for monitoring analysts.
Develop and maintain security policies, procedures, and documentation.
Conduct detailed research to increase awareness and readiness levels of the security operations center.
Conduct advanced analysis and recommend remediation steps.
Analyze network events to determine impact.
Conduct all-source research to determine threat capability and intent.
Develop and maintain analytical procedures to meet changing requirements.
Develop content for cyber defense tools.
Analyze identified malicious activity to determine weaknesses exploited, exploitation methods, effects on system and information.
Determine tactics, techniques, and procedures for intrusion sets.
Work with stakeholders to resolve computer security incidents and vulnerability compliance.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure compliance with security standards and best practices.
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.
#DSCM
Qualifications:
Required:
Bachelor's degree and minimum 9 Years experience; 7 Years with Masters; 4 Years with PhD. Four (4) additional years of experience can be substituted in lieu of the degree requirement.
Must possess ONE of the following certifications or the ability to obtain prior to start date:CASP+ CE, CCNP Security, CEH, CFR, CHFI, CISA, CISSP (or Associate), Cloud+, CND, CySA+, GCED, GCIH, GICSP, or SSCP
Security Operations Center experience, network event analysis and/or threat analysis.
Tuning and/or configuring SIEM and vulnerability tools experience.
Cloud computing technologies to include Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) experience.
Expertise in traditional computing technologies architecture, design and security.
Expertise in planning, implementation and usage of log aggregation and security analysis tools.
Demonstrated knowledge utilizing native security and logging tools and centralized log aggregation utilizing a variety of methods.
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 forensic tools to assist in determining scope and severity of a cybersecurity incident.
Proven ability to brief (technical/informational) senior leadership.
Ability to scope and perform impact analysis on incidents.
U.S. Citizenship required
An active Secret security clearance.
Preferred/Desired:
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.
Experience in developing and delivering comprehensive training programs.
Experience collaborating with cross functional teams.
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.
Provides cybersecurity recommendations to leadership based on significant threats and vulnerabilities.
Peraton Overview:
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 nontraditional 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:
$104,000 - $166,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
Reference: 203698143
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