Senior Cyber Security Deception EngineerThreat Hunter - TASO
Senior Cyber Security Deception EngineerThreat Hunter - TASO
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$ 146000 - 234000
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Job Description
Responsibilities
Peraton is seeking a Senior Cyber Security Deception Engineer/Threat Hunter to become part of Peratons 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.
Location: Arlington VA; Onsite 5 days a week; must be local to the work location.
In this role you will:
- Work closely with crossfunctional teams including Security Operations Incident Response Threat Intelligence and Threat Hunting to ensure a proactive and robust security posture.
- Perform advanced network threat hunting to detect malicious or suspicious behavior on Department onpremise and cloudbased networks.
- Respond to security events received from CIRT provide comprehensive findings and recommend remediation steps.
- Perform advanced traffic analysis (at the packet level) and reconstruction of network traffic to discover anomalies trends and patterns.
- Perform forensic analysis of suspected systems (e.g. on and off premise network devices and storage media) impacted by malicious activity.
- Implement and use cyber security frameworks (e.g. MITREATT&CK Chain etc..
- Has proven expertise in performing analyses to validate established security requirements and recommended additional security requirements and safeguards.
- May interface with external entities including law enforcement intelligence and other government organizations and agencies.
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Qualifications
Minimum requirements:
- A Bachelors degree and 9 years of experience or 7 years of experience with a Masters. An additional 4 years of experience will be considered in lieu of degree.
- Possess one of the following certifications:
- CCNASecurity CND CySA GICSP GSEC Security CE or SSCP
- Proven ability to develop and recommend corrective actions.
- Expertise knowledge and experience integrating new architectural analysis of cyber security features.
- Comfortable interfacing with external entities including law enforcement intelligence and other government organizations and agencies.
- Experience in threat hunting or network/cloud forensics.
- U.S. citizenship is required.
- Active Top Secret security clearance required.
- The ability to obtain a final TS/SCI.
Preferred:
- Experience supporting the Department of State cyber security mission.
- Experience using Databricks.
- Experience using Artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs).
- Ability to create troubleshoot configure and operate complex scripting solutions with the ability to output the results in a variety of formats (e.g. HTML XML etc. and to repurposethe results for reports targeting different technical levels (e.g. other analysts management etc.
Peraton Overview
Peraton is a nextgeneration national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the worlds 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 cant be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit to learn how were keeping people around the world safe and secure.
Target Salary Range
EEO
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
