Tier 2 Shift Lead Secret

Peraton is seeking an experienced Tier 2 Cyber Incident Response Team (CIRT) Shift Leadto join Peratons Federal Strategic Cyber Mission program.

Location: Beltsville MD; On-site

Work Hours: Day Shift 06:00 14:00 EST (6:00 - 2:00 PM EST) Tuesday - Saturday

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 in-boxes.
• 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.

Additionallyas a Tier 2 Shift Lead you will:

• Review all Tier 2 shift tickets for accuracy and completeness
• Coordinate with CIRT Watch Officersand government leadership on remediation actions
• Provide technical and procedural improvement recommendations to CIRT leadership
• Assist withTier 2candidate technical interviewsasrequired
• Ensure coordinated remediation actions areoperatingproperly

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree and minimum of 9 years of relevant experience; or Masters degree with minimum of 7 years; or PhD with 4 years.
• Must possess or obtain prior to start date at least one of the following certifications. Continued certification is required as a condition of employment:

  • CASP CE; CCNA Cyber Ops; CCNA-Security; CCNP Security; CEH; CFR; CHFI; CISA;CISSP (or Associate); CISSP-ISSAP; CISSP-ISSEP; CySA; GCED; GCFA; GCIH; SCYBER

• Demonstrated experience across the incident response lifecycle.
• Experience with SOAR platforms and automated response workflows (e.g. ServiceNow Splunk SOAR Microsoft Sentinel).
• Experience with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platforms (e.g. Splunk Microsoft Sentinel Elastic QRadar).
• Experience with Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions (e.g. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Elastic XDR Carbon Black CrowdStrike).
• Knowledge of cloud security monitoring and incident response.
• Knowledge of integrating indicators of compromise (IOCs) and tracking advanced persistent threat (APT) actors.
• Ability to analyze cyber threat intelligence and understand adversary tactics techniques and procedures (TTPs).
• Knowledge of malware analysis techniques.
• Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK and D3FEND frameworks.
• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Active Secret security clearance required at start.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficiencywith Splunk for security monitoring alert creation and threat hunting.
• Experience usingMicrosoft Azure access and identity management.
• ProficiencyinMicrosoft Defender for Endpoint and Identity for security monitoring response and alert generations.
• Experience using digital forensics collection and analysis tools ( Zimmerman-Tools KAPECyLR Volatility).
• Experience using ServiceNow SOAR for ticketing and automated response.
• Experience usingPythonPowerShelland BASH scripting languages.
• Proficiency in 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: Azure SC-900 CCSP GCIH CCSK GSEC CHFI GCLD GCIA.
• Advanced technical certifications such as:SecurityX/CASP PRMP GREM GEIR GNFA or GCFA.

Peraton is a next-generation 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.