3rd shift (11pm - 7:30am) Incident Handler/Security Analyst

Overview

GovCIO is currently hiring for a 3rd shift (11pm - 7:30am) Incident Handler/Security Analyst to support the US Courts in Washington, DC (4 days onsite, Fridays remote).

Responsibilities

• Correlates threat data from various sources to establish the identity and modus operandi of hackers active in client's networks and posing a potential threat.
• Provides the customer with assessments and reports facilitating situational awareness and understanding of current cyber threats and adversaries.
• Develops cyber threat profiles based on geographic region, country, group, or individual actors.
• Produces cyber threat assessments based on entity threat analysis.
• May provide computer forensic and intrusion support to high technology investigations in the form of computer evidence seizure, computer forensic analysis, data recovery, and network assessments.
• Researches and maintains proficiency in tools, techniques, countermeasures, and trends in computer network vulnerabilities, data hiding and network security and encryption.
• Collaborates with intrusion analysts to identify, report on, and coordinate remediation of cyber threats to the client.
• Provides timely and actionable sanitized intelligence to cyber incident response professionals.
• Leverages technical knowledge of computer systems and networks with cyber threat information to assess the client's security posture.
• Conducts intelligence analysis to assess intrusion signatures, tactics, techniques and procedures associated with preparation for and execution of cyber attacks.
• Researches hackers, hacker techniques, vulnerabilities, exploits, and provides detailed briefings and intelligence reports to leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree with 5+ years of security analysis experience (or commensurate experience)
• Certification required: Splunk Fundamentals I & II certification
• Clearance Required: Ablity to maintain a public trust clearance

Preferred

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science , Cybersecurity or related field

Salary Range

USD $81,850.00 - USD $110,000.00 /Yr.