Junior Cyber Defense Incident Responder
Junior Cyber Defense Incident Responder
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USD 73000 - 78000
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JUNIOR CYBER DEFENSE INCIDENT RESPONDER
Z FEDERAL is seeking a Junior Cyber Defense Incident Responder to support a full range of cyber security services on a contract in Washington DC. The position is fulltime/permanent and will support a U.S. Government agency. The position is available immediately upon finding a qualified candidate with the appropriate background clearance. This is a 3PM 11PM shift in which the candidate will be required to be at the client site in the heart of Washington DC.
Security Clearance Requirement: Active Secret clearance
Responsibilities Include but not limited to:
- Develop content for cyber defense tools.
- Characterize and analyze network traffic to identify anomalous activity and potential threats to network resources
- Coordinate with enterprisewide cyber defense staff to validate network alerts.
- Ensure that cybersecurityenabled products or other compensating security control technologies reduce identified risk to an acceptable level.
- Document and escalate incidents (including events history status and potential impact for further action) that may cause ongoing and immediate impact to the environment.
- Perform cyber defense trend analysis and reporting.
- Perform event correlation using information gathered from a variety of sources within the enterprise to gain situational awareness and determine the effectiveness of an observed attack.
- Perform security reviews and identify security gaps in security architecture resulting in recommendations for inclusion in the risk mitigation strategy.
- Identify and analyze anomalies in network traffic using metadata.
- Conduct research analysis and correlation across a wide variety of all source data sets (indications and warnings).
Qualifications/Requirements:
- Bachelors Degree
- 13 years experience in Introductory information assurance networks sensor operations network/data analysis packet capture analysis hunts methodologies intelligence analysis.
- Certifications addressing new attack vectors (emphasis on cloud computing technology mobile platforms and tablet computers) new vulnerabilities existing threats to operating environments
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to interpret the information collected by network tools (e.g. Nslookup Ping and Traceroute).
- Knowledge of host/network access control mechanisms (e.g. access control list capabilities lists).
- Knowledge of vulnerability information dissemination sources (e.g. alerts advisories errata and bulletins).
- Knowledge of incident response and handling methodologies.
- Knowledge of frontend collection systems including traffic collection filtering and selection.
- Experience with system administration network and operating system hardening techniques.
- Knowledge of cyber defense and information security policies procedures and regulations.
- Knowledge of the common attack vectors on the network layer.
- Knowledge of different classes of attacks (e.g. passive active insider closein distribution attacks).
- Indepth understanding of cyber attackers (e.g. script kiddies insider threat nonnation state sponsored and nation sponsored).
- Knowledge of various types of network communication (e.g. LAN WAN MAN WLAN WWAN).
- Knowledge of file extensions (e.g. .dll .bat .zip .pcap .gzip).
- Knowledge of frontend collection systems including traffic collection filtering and selection.
Additional Experience Preferred:
- Experience in detecting host and networkbased intrusions via intrusion detection technologies (e.g. Snort).
- Ability to analyze malware conduct vulnerability scans and recognize vulnerabilities in security systems.
- Skill in determining how a security system should work (including its resilience and dependability capabilities) and how changes in conditions operations or the environment will affect these outcomes.
- Experience evaluating the adequacy of security designs.
- Skill in using incident handling methodologies.
- Ability to apply techniques for detecting host and networkbased intrusions using intrusion detection technologies.
- Experience with using protocol analyzers and collecting data from a variety of cyber defense resources.
- Experience reading and interpreting signatures (e.g. snort).
- Experience with assessing security controls based on cybersecurity principles and tenets. (e.g. CIS CSC NIST SP 80053 Cybersecurity Framework etc.
- Ability to accurately and completely source all data used in intelligence assessment and/or planning products.
- Ability to apply cybersecurity and privacy principles to organizational requirements (relevant to confidentiality integrity availability authentication nonrepudiation).
Salary Range: $73000 $78000 Annual Salary
Z FEDERAL is a professional services firm located in Greenbelt MD. Founded in 1983 to provide IT and management consulting services to the Federal Government we have established a proven track record of reliable performance in the Federal marketplace. Z FEDERAL has a history of longterm commitment to our Federal customers and our employees.
Z FEDERAL offers:
- Ownership via ESOP
- Selfdirected 401K and annual company match
- Up to four weeks of paid time off (PTO)
- 11 paid federal holidays
- Other forms of leave such as bereavement jury duty military leave
- Full Health Benefits: Medical and Vision Dental (employeepaid)
- Life Insurance
- Short and Long Term Disability AD&D Insurance
- Flexible Spending Account (Medical and Dependent Care)
- Performancebased bonuses
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Incentive and referral bonuses
- Commuter benefits
- Professional Development and Training
- Years of Service Reward and Recognition Program
Z FEDERALs commitment to employee growth and development is proven and valued by our staff. We want our employees to excel grow professionally and take on increasingly responsible roles.
Required Experience:
Junior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
