Cyber Defense Forensics Analyst

Booz Allen Hamilton•San Antonio, TX

12d

About The Position

Cyber Defense Forensics Analyst The Opportunity: As a security operations center analyst, you’re in the middle of the action, responding to and mitigating threats in real time. You’re the first line of cyber defense for your organization, and they look to you for guidance on best practices and security measures. We need a Tier 2 SOC analyst like you to help us secure critical infrastructure from the constant onslaught of cyber attacks for the mission partner . As a SOC analyst on our team, you’ll monitor and analyze threats, using state-of-the-art tools. You’ll work with the team to understand, mitigate, and respond to threats quickly, restoring operations and limiting the impact. You’ll analyze incidents to figure out just how many systems are affected and assist recovery efforts. You’ll combine threat intelligence, event data, and assessments from recent events, and identify patterns to understand attackers’ goals to stop them from succeeding. This is a great opportunity to hone your cybersecurity skills with hands-on experience in threat assessment and incident response. Work with us as we secure the Air Force network from malicious actors. Join us. The world can’t wait.

Requirements

6+ years of experience in Cybersecurity
3+ years of experience conducting digital forensics or incident response investigations within classified DoD environments
Experience with forensic tools such as EnCase, FTK, Autopsy, Cellebrite, Volatility, or X-Ways
Experience with SIEMS
Knowledge of Windows, Linux, and network forensic artifacts, including memory and disk analysis
Ability to collect, preserve, and analyze evidence in accordance with DoD or federal chain-of-custody standards and identify, triage, and report events that occur to protect data, information systems, and infrastructure
Ability to find trends, patterns, or correlations in security data
TS/SCI clearance
Bachelor’s degree and 3+ years of experience with cyber or IA or 7+ years of experience with cyber or IA in lieu of a degree
DoD 8140 Level II Certification, such as Security+, CySA+, or CISSP Certification

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting Cyber Protection Teams (CPTs), Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO), or Air Force cyber missions
Experience with Elastic, Splunk, Wireshark, or MISP for multi-source data correlation
Knowledge of malware analysis, reverse engineering, or memory forensics
Ability to prepare and brief forensic findings to commanders or senior decision-makers
GCFA, GCFE, CHFI, or CEH Certification
Master’s degree in Digital Forensics, Information Assurance, or Cybersecurity

Responsibilities

monitor and analyze threats
mitigate and respond to threats quickly, restoring operations and limiting the impact
analyze incidents to figure out just how many systems are affected and assist recovery efforts
combine threat intelligence, event data, and assessments from recent events, and identify patterns to understand attackers’ goals to stop them from succeeding