Cyber IT Specialist – 1st Shift Lead

Peraton is seeking a Cyber IT Specialist 1^stShift Lead to become part of our Federal Strategic Cyber Group.

Location: Beltsville MD.

This is for the first shift: 06:00 AM - 02:00 PM EDT.

What youll do:

• Oversee a team of Cyber IT Specialists in daily proactive monitoring and troubleshooting ensuring optimal performance and swift resolution of issues to maintain cybersecurity integrity.
• Facilitate effective communication with management to provide timely updates on team activities and operational status ensuring leadership is informed of ongoing developments and potential issues.
• Ensure that reports delivered to clients are both accurate and clearly articulated presenting information in a concise manner that facilitates understanding and decision-making.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive shift schedules that accurately reflect team members availability facilitating efficient workflow and resource allocation.
• Monitor email communications for service requests ensuring timely responses within 30 minutes of receipt to maintain high levels of customer satisfaction and operational efficiency.
• Thoroughly document monitor and track all work through events logged and resolved in the government-provided ITSM tool (ticketing system) ensuring clear and accurate records of all activities.
• Diagnose and resolve customer-reported system incidents problems and events keeping users informed of incident and resolution status to enhance user experience and satisfaction.
• Implement industry-standard ITSM processes to support the organizations goal of delivering high-reliability IT services ensuring alignment with best practices.
• Provide timely status updates and outage communications via phone email and relevant websites within 15 minutes of incident identification to ensure stakeholders are well-informed.
• Coordinate and maintain call-back lists escalation lists and special event documentation in collaboration with the appropriate customer representatives and Contracting Officer Representative (COR).
• Develop maintain and implement a Major Incident Response (MIR) plan to facilitate priority service restoration enhance stakeholder and government awareness and establish an escalation path for significant service degradations as specified by the government.
• Provide comprehensive service restoration support including implementing corrective actions on documented/known issues escalating unresolved issues for further assistance and serving as the incident coordinator by maintaining incident journals organizing conference calls and coordinating support with Security Tools Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) while managing service degradation notifications.

Required:

• A Bachelors degree and 1 year of experience. An additional 4 years of experience may be substituted in lieu of the bachelors degree requirement.
• Demonstrated 1 years in IT operations network operations or a cybersecurity support role experience.
• Must either possess and maintain or obtain prior to start date one of the following professional certifications:
  • CCNA Security CEH CISSP CySA GICSP GSEC Security CE CND SSCP
• Experience and knowledge of networking concepts protocols and architectures.
• Understanding of common cyber threats attack vectors and exploitation techniques.
• Demonstrated strength in analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Demonstrated excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with colleagues at all levels of the organization.
• The ability to support 24x7x365 system monitoring customer and technical support role.
• U.S. citizenship required.
• Ability to obtain Secret security clearance.
  • Ability to obtain a final Top Secret security clearance.

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.