Tier 2 Cyber Incident Response Team (CIRT) Analyst

Peraton is seeking an experienced Tier 2 Cyber Incident Response Team (CIRT) Analyst to join Peratons Department of State (DoS) Diplomatic Security Cyber Mission (DSCM) program which provides leading cyber and technology security expertise to enable innovative effective and secure business processes that protect our nations diplomatic missions worldwide.

Location:Beltsville MD and Rosslyn VA

Work Hours: Days ShiftEST TUE-SAT

In this role you will:

• Detect classify process track and report on cyber security events and incidents.
• Perform advanced in-depth analysis of coordinated Tier 1 alert triage and requests in a 24x7x365 environment.
• Analyze logs from multiple sources (e.g. host logs EDR firewalls intrusion detection systems servers) to identify contain and remediate suspicious activity.
• Characterize and analyze network traffic to identify anomalous activity and potential threats.
• Protect against and prevent potential cyber security threats and vulnerabilities.
• Perform forensic analysis of hosts artifacts network traffic and email content.
• Analyze malicious scripts and code to mitigate potential threats.
• Conduct malware analysis to generate IOCs to identify and mitigate threats.
• Collaborate with Department of State teams to analyze and respond to events and incidents.
• Monitor and respond to the CIRT Security Orchestration and Automation Response (SOAR) platform hotline email inboxes.
• Create tickets and initiate workflows as instructed in technical SOPs.
• Coordinate and report incident information to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).
• Collaborate with other local national and international CIRTs as directed.
• Submit alert tuning requests.

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Required:

• Bachelors degree and a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience or a High School diploma and 6 years of relevant experience.
• Must possess at least one of the following certifications prior to start date:
  • CCNA-Security CND CySA GICSP GSEC Security CE or SSCP
• Demonstrated experience in the Incident Response lifecycle.
• Knowledge of SOAR ticketing and automated response systems (e.g. ServiceNow Splunk SOAR Microsoft Sentinel).
• Demonstrated experience with using Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platforms (e.g. Splunk Microsoft Sentinel Elastic Q-Radar).
• Demonstrated experience in using Endpoint Detection and Response systems (e.g. MDE ElasticXDR CarbonBlack Crowdstrike).
• Knowledge of cloud security monitoring and incident response.
• Knowledge of integrating IOCs and Advanced Persistent Threat actors.
• Ability to analyze cyber threat intelligence reporting and understanding adversary methodologies and techniques.
• Knowledge of malware analysis techniques.
• Knowledge of the MITRE ATT&CK and D3FEND frameworks.
• U.S. citizenship required.
• Active Interim Secret clearance in order to start.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficiency with Splunk for security monitoring alert creation and threat hunting.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure access and identity management.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Identity for security monitoring response and alert generations.
• Experience in using digital forensics collection and analysis tools (e.g. Autopsy MagnetForensics Zimmerman-Tools KAPE CyLR Volatility).
• Experience with using ServiceNow SOAR for ticketing and automated response.
• Knowledge of Python PowerShell and BASH scripting languages.
• Experience with cloud security monitoring and incident response.
• Demonstrated ability to perform static/dynamic malware analysis and reverse engineering.
• Experience with integrating cyber threat intelligence and IOC-based hunting.
• Technical certifications such as: Security CySA Cloud Try Hack Me SAL1 Hack the Box CDSA CyberDefenders CCD Azure SC-900 CCSP GCIH CCSK GSEC CHFI GCLD GCIA.
• Advanced technical certifications such as: SecurityX/CASP PRMP GREM GEIR GNFA or GCFA.

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