Cyber Threat Hunt Analyst

Leidos-posted 4 months ago

$85,150 - $153,925/Yr

Full-time • Mid Level

Ashburn, VA

5,001-10,000 employees

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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Security Operations Center (SOC) is a U.S. Government program responsible to prevent, identify, contain and eradicate cyber threats to CBP networks through monitoring, intrusion detection and protective security services to CBP information systems including local area networks/wide area networks (LAN/WAN), commercial Internet connection, public facing websites, wireless, mobile/cellular, cloud, security devices, servers and workstations. The CBP SOC is responsible for the overall security of CBP Enterprise-wide information systems, and collects, investigates, and reports any suspected and confirmed security violations. Leidos is seeking an experienced Cyber Threat Hunt Analyst to join our team. As a member of this highly technical Cyber Threat Hunt team supporting U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), you will be responsible for in-depth technical analysis of network and endpoint logs & activity, executing various types of cyber threat hunts on various agency assets, escalating findings as deemed appropriate, and authoring technical reports summarizing operations and findings in support of the protection of the customers’ systems, networks, and assets.

Conduct cyber threat analysis, identifying mitigation and/or remediation courses of action.
Develop actionable intelligence used to protect organizational IT assets.
Trend cyber threat metrics for leadership situational awareness.
Utilize Threat Intelligence and Threat Models to create threat hypotheses for threat hunts.
Identify, track, and investigate high priority threat campaigns and malicious actors.
Utilize Cyber Threat Intelligence to execute ad hoc threat hunts on agency assets.
Utilize the MITRE ATT&CK framework to understand TTPs of adversaries.
Maintain a comprehensive understanding of the cyber threat landscape.
Prepare and report risk analysis and threat findings to appropriate stakeholders.
Create, recommend, and assist with development of new security content.
Coordinate with different teams to improve threat detection and response.
Plan, scope, and execute Threat Hunt Missions.
Proactively search through systems and networks to detect advanced threats.
Analyze host, network, and application logs in addition to malware and code.
Develop scripts to support cyber threat detection.
Produce high quality technical and non-technical products.
Maintain the daily battle rhythm for the Cyber Threat Hunt team.

Possess a minimum of five (5) years of professional experience in incident detection and response, malware analysis, or cyber forensics.
Have a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or related field with three (3) years of experience.
Have 2+ years recent experience with host-based and network-based security monitoring.
Experienced developing scripts to support cyber threat detection.
Established experience with incident response and SIEM tools.
Ability to work independently with minimal direction.
Must be a US Citizen.

A minimum of five (5) years of hands-on experience with experience in the last two (2) years that includes host-based and network-based security monitoring.
Previous DOD, IC or Law Enforcement Intelligence or Counterintelligence Training/Experience.
Demonstrated experience planning and executing threat hunt missions.
Understanding of complex Enterprise networks.
Working knowledge of common networking protocols.
Familiarity with operation of both Windows and Linux based systems.
Proficient with scripting languages such as Python or PowerShell.
Familiarity with Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL) and/or Elastic Domain Specific Language (DSL).