Cyber Security Operations Specialist

Freedom Consulting Group is seeking a motivated career and customer-oriented Cybersecurity Operations Specialist to perform on our Cybersecurity Data Analysis Services team in the Springfield VA area or Saint Louis MO.

The Cybersecurity Operations Specialist shall provide cybersecurity data analysis services which designs develops builds tests configures employs operates integrates sustains and refreshes the Security Information Events Management (SIEM) capability (i.e. Enterprise Audit) long-term analytics platform log aggregation platform and the cyber threat intelligence capability signature development and deployment and reputation management services.

Responsibilities:

• Provide all preventative and corrective maintenance to ensure consistent reliable and secure service availability.
• Maintain system availability and reliability with a threshold of 99.99%
• Detect and ticket degradations (volume/velocity) of all SIEM data flows within 60 minutes of the start of the degradation
• Perform day-to-day maintenance and specific scheduled maintenance activities that result from manufacturers recommended service intervals alerts bulletins available patches and updates according to agency approved change management processes.
• Execute emergency maintenance actions with sufficient urgency to preclude unacceptable outage durations approved by the Government prior to execution and coordinated through and approved by CSOC and ESC government management
• Perform all development engineering testing integration and implementation actions necessary for major vendor revisions
• Retain documentation regarding loss of event logs (e.g. June 5-7th DNS logs were not ingested from SBU and are lost)
• Configure all assets assigned to this service within the Government Furnished Information - Software Tools list in accordance with all Federal DoD IC and NGA laws directives orders polices guidance procedures etc.
• Utilize agency approved ticketing systems to document track assign update and coordinate all engineering integration configuration and maintenance actions

Required Qualifications:

• Active Security Clearance
• DoD 8570.01-M IAT Level II and CSSP Infrastructure Support certifications
• Experience developing and maintaining enterprise audit projects
• SIEM experience with one of the following ArcSight ElasticSearch Splunk Event Broker User Behavioral Analysis (UBA)
• Experience providing support to Cybersecurity Operations Cell (CSOC) in creating alerting rules
• Create SIEM playbooks
• Linux (RHEL) Expert (administration and engineering)
• Proficient in manipulating SIEM filters to better find and analyze potential
• malicious/atypical activity and reduce false positives
• Experience with content development within ArcSight and Kibana to facilitate Cyber Analysts ability to investigate malicious events
• Creation of ArcSight rules based on use cases of malicious events