Lead Metrics Analyst

The Leidos Intelligence Division is seeking a Metricsleadto support a mission critical contract. The Network Operations Security Center (NOSC) Metrics Lead will work with the customer to ensure that effective measurable cybersecurity metrics are collected analyzed presented both formally and informally and continuously improved upon. The candidate willbe responsible forimplementing the NOSC metrics program to ensure the metrics collected are impactful andassistin driving sound management decisions. It is preferred that the candidate has a strong background in Cybersecurity Analyst work supporting 24X7 operations with experience in data security technologies incident response forensics and digital media analysis and process improvement.

The candidate should be familiar with the Cyber Kill Chainmethodologyand how to correctly measure its metrics lead should be a forward thinker and bring innovation to help the customerstreamlineprocesses and delivery of metrics to stakeholders.

Primary Responsibilities

• Propose NOSC metrics to track performanceidentifyissues and help inform our customer to make decisions.

• Identifyobtainand normalize data for presentation to the customer toassistcustomer decision-making

• Maintain awareness of emerging analytics and big-data technologies

• Develop and use advanced statistical concepts algorithms querying and automated processes to clean model integrate and evaluate complex datasets and business problems for practical application.

• Develop information tools algorithms dashboards and queries tomonitorand improve cyber operations performance

• Develop NOSC metrics which capture effectiveness efficiency and return on investment

• Develop impact metricsdemonstratingthe maturity of enterprise SOCs and/or toidentifygaps.

• Develop a metrics scorecard to display the level of effectiveness of enterprise SOCs.

• Build dashboards using the NOSC infrastructure to support on-demand metrics representation.

• Track metrics initiatives and related work for program PMO

• Report metrics and project progress in customer and/or regular PMO meetings

• Manage and/orassistwith PMO projects

Basic Qualifications

BS or higher in IT-related field Business Analysis/Intelligence Mathematics Statistics Computer Science or Economics and 12 years experience in relevant work experience developing and managing metrics for a large organization or aMastersdegree and10 years of relevant work years of experience and/certs may be considered in lieu of a degree.

Senior-level security certification ise.g.CISSP GCIH Tableau Desktop Certified Associate Tableau Desktop Certified Professional etc.

Candidates should alsodemonstratethe following:

• Ability to design and develop methods processes and systems toconsolidateand analyze structured unstructureddiverseand/or large data sets from disparate sources

• Familiarity with the principals of related disciplines such as Natural Language Processing Machine Learning predictive modeling statistical analysis and hypothesis testing

• Experience in gathering requirements from customers

• Experience designing and producing metrics KPIs and data visualizations for a medium or large organization

• Experience creating interactive metrics dashboards using Power BI Tableau or other data visualization tools

• Experience generating reports charts and graphs for presenting and explaining metrics information and analysis

• Experience withmaintaining; integrating; preparing; and extracting transforming and loading (ETL) complex and/or large datasets for analysis.

• Ability toidentifymeaningful insights from all types of measures metrics KPIs etc. and interpret and communicate findings and recommendations to stakeholders at all levels

• Strategic vision and analytical thinking

• Excellent decision-making and problem-solving skills

• Familiarity with standard project management methodologiese.g.PMI Agile

• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and prioritize accordingly

• Exceptional interpersonal skills and written communication skills tofrequentlyinteract with all levels of the organization including senior NOSC federal leadership

• Excellent analytical ability to quickly gather facts perform root cause analysis and draw conclusions in collaboration with other team members

• Ability to work cross functionally among IT PMO and the business

• Ability to work in a fast-paced demanding and fluid environment

In addition to specific security clearance requirements all Department of Homeland Security NOSC employeesare required toobtain an Entry on Duty (EOD) clearance to support this program.

Candidate will work remote with 1 day in the office onsite.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with tools such as Splunk and its dashboard capabilities

• Familiarity with Cyber Kill Chain/Intrusion Defensive Chain/MITRE ATT&CK methodologies

• Experience in a NOSC NOC or SOC environment

Familiar with programming languages such as Python SQL etc.