Cyber Security Analyst

General Dynamics Information Technology • Manassas, VA

18h • $85,000 - $115,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Cybersecurity/Network Analyst supporting Department of State customer. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career. At GDIT, people are our differentiators. As a Cybersecurity Analyst you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a TS level cleared Cybersecurity Analyst joining our team to support our customer.

Requirements

• Required Certification in the field of cyber security (e.g., CompTIA Security+, CISSP, Information Assurance, or Certified Ethical Hacker)
• 3+ years of experience
• Basic knowledge of the principles, methods, and techniques used in engineering, information systems, and related technical support.
• Basic knowledge of related hardware and software
• Basic understanding of data manipulation of Indicators of Compromise (IOC's)
• Basic understanding of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
• Basic understanding of Vulnerability Management (Vulnerability Scanning and Patching)
• Basic understanding of Information Assurance
• Understand how to use Splunk and ScienceLogic
• US Citizenship Required: Yes
• Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: Top Secret

Nice To Haves

• Cyber Defense
• Monitoring Tools
• Troubleshooting

Responsibilities

• Uses data collected from a variety of cyber defense tools (e.g., IDS alerts, firewalls, network traffic logs) to analyze events that occur within their environments for the purposes of mitigating threats
• Create dashboards in Splunk and analyze alerts and alarms
• Interprets, analyzes, and reports all events and anomalies in accordance with computer network directives, including initiating, responding, and reporting discovered events
• Evaluates, tests, recommends, coordinates, monitors, and maintains cybersecurity policies, procedures, and systems, including access management for hardware, firmware, and software.
• Ensures that cybersecurity plans, controls, processes, standards, policies, and procedures are aligned with cybersecurity standards.
• Identifies security risks and exposures, determines the causes of security violations and suggests procedures to halt future incidents and improve security.
• Develops techniques and procedures for conducting cybersecurity risk assessments and compliance audits, the evaluation and testing of hardware, firmware and software for possible impact on system security, and the investigation and resolution of security incidents such as intrusion, frauds, attacks or leaks.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
• 401K with company match
• Competitive pay and paid time off
• Full flex work weeks where possible
• Variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
• Short and long-term disability benefits
• Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed