Security Operations Analyst 3 (Senior Level)

Wits Solutions Inc. (WITS) is a SBA certified Small Disadvantaged Business with headquarters in the metropolitan Washington D.C. area. WITS has been providing best-in-class solutions in professional IT and administrative consulting to various Federal State Local and commercial customers. At WITS we believe in working not for our clients but with them. This is why right from the beginning; our analysts and solution-builders work closely with our clients to ensure that the project outcomes continue to deliver value long into the future.

Job Description:-

Security Clearance:-

• Public Trust

Education/ Certification Mandatory:-

• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience
• Certifications preferred:
• Security
• CySA / CEH

Work Experience Mandatory:-

• Minimum 6 years in SOC / security analysis
• Experience with SIEM tools and log correlation
• Experience in incident response and monitoring

Education/Certifications Nice To Have:-

• GIAC (nice to have)

Work Experience Nice To Have:-

• NIGC Experience

Roles and Responsibilities:-

• Perform all security analysis activities according to established standards.
• Maintain threat awareness and monitor NIGC information systems for exploits and any suspicious activities; analyze aggregated logs and reports from security tools.
• Develop a daily security analysis and reporting checklist and execute activities identified in the checklist.
• Evaluate effectiveness of security analysis activities compared to best practices and recommend improvements.
• Adhere to Continuous Monitoring practices to evaluate the effectiveness of implemented security controls and execute proactive threat hunting activities to ensure confidentiality integrity and availability of NIGC information systems.
• Develop detection and response configuration policies to increase automation and alerting.
• Develop Incident handling procedures.
• Execute Incident Response activities to include all associated actions according to the NIGC incident response plan.
• Validate that sufficient and relevant information is captured and retained from security tools to support actionable security awareness and incident investigations.
• Collect security operations performance and NIGC security posture management metrics and prepare NIGC threat reports to inform risk management decisions.