Cybersecurity Analyst Principal

General Dynamics•Bossier City, LA

49d•$102,000 - $138,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Advance your career while impacting our national security in cyber as a Cybersecurity Analyst Principal at GDIT. Here, technologists have many paths to grow a meaningful career supporting cyber missions and operations across the federal government. MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT As a Cybersecurity Analyst Principal, the work you'll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of the US Department of Education's Portfolio of Integrated Value-Oriented Technologies (PIVOT). You will play a crucial role via the following responsibilities: Oversee the daily operations of the SOC and plans shift activities Works closely with Incident Management Team Must be willing to lead major incident management process, supports Agency leadership during the activation of major/escalated incidents Develop, author, and deliver process improvements for the SOC in order to maintain operational readiness for incident response Monitor and report on call volumes, alarm responses, and incident reports to ensure appropriate levels of service are met Partner with IT leadership and teams to support operational issues and prepare for potential incidents Support annual updates of the incident response concept of operations document Support annual incident response tabletop exercises Lead, mentor, and coach SOC I and SOC II staff members Work as part of a 24x7x365 team delivering real time proactive monitoring and maintenance of supported security tools and associated rules and signatures Carry out triage on security events, coordinate incidents with Incident Management Team, IT operations, network engineering, and application teams and support the Incident Management process Identify and respond to incidents, to prevent or limit damage to assets, and report incidents Detect and analyze incidents, coordinate activities with other stakeholders for containing, eradicating, and recovering from incidents Development of advanced analytics and countermeasures to protect critical assets IDS monitoring and analysis, network traffic and log analysis, prioritization and differentiation between potential intrusion attempts, determination of false alarms, insider threat and APT detection, and malware analysis/forensics Supports the production and maintenance standard operational processes and procedures and playbooks for use by all shift personnel Provide enterprise-wide management of security incidents, managed network space, to detect, respond, and report all computer related incidents that includes daily monitoring of information systems, vulnerability remediation, intrusion detection, log reviews, and malware tracking Assess, identify, and remediate of the individuals and/or systems affected Coordinate all information security incidents complied with timeline specifics Coordinate the development of reports from the SIEM, NIDS, and HIDS Remain up to date with current attack methods and characteristics in order to identify threats and advise on prevention, mitigation and remediation Perform other tasks consistent with the goals and objectives of the department/contract Perform other duties as assigned by Senior Program Executive Responsible to fully document assigned tickets to show all work performed in order to pass SLRs Responsible to manage team to fully document assigned tickets to show all work performed in order to pass SLRs

Requirements

Technical Training, Certification(s) or Degree
5+ years of related experience
Experience composing threat reports and other management level communications
Leadership experience of teams of 5 or more
Vulnerability Management - Nessus Vulnerability Scanning
Configuration Management - STIG/SCAP compliance baselines for windows, mac, linux
Splunk SEIM / Log Aggregation experience
Cloud Security - Familiarity with FedRAMP for IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
Experienced Incident Response Team (IR/IRT) troubleshooting, root cause analysis and remediation verification.
Knowledge of Identity Management, ICAM/IDAM and authorization, least privilege, reducing unauthorized elevated access.
Firewall Understanding including basic networking, sub-netting, IDS, NAT, ACL's
Penetration Test Response and Remediation
DevSecOps - software development lifecycle security -scanning across the lifecycle and baking in application security for developers and containers
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint experience
Must be able to obtain a position of Public Trust with the US Department of Education
US Citizenship Required

Nice To Haves

ServiceNow ticketing and reporting experience
Linux, Windows, and Active Directory experience
Experience with Tenable and Palo Alto network security solutions
Cloud and mobile device experience
ForeScout CounterAct, DLP solutions and Cylance AV
CISSP certification

Responsibilities

Oversee the daily operations of the SOC and plans shift activities
Works closely with Incident Management Team
Must be willing to lead major incident management process, supports Agency leadership during the activation of major/escalated incidents
Develop, author, and deliver process improvements for the SOC in order to maintain operational readiness for incident response
Monitor and report on call volumes, alarm responses, and incident reports to ensure appropriate levels of service are met
Partner with IT leadership and teams to support operational issues and prepare for potential incidents
Support annual updates of the incident response concept of operations document
Support annual incident response tabletop exercises
Lead, mentor, and coach SOC I and SOC II staff members
Work as part of a 24x7x365 team delivering real time proactive monitoring and maintenance of supported security tools and associated rules and signatures
Carry out triage on security events, coordinate incidents with Incident Management Team, IT operations, network engineering, and application teams and support the Incident Management process
Identify and respond to incidents, to prevent or limit damage to assets, and report incidents
Detect and analyze incidents, coordinate activities with other stakeholders for containing, eradicating, and recovering from incidents
Development of advanced analytics and countermeasures to protect critical assets
IDS monitoring and analysis, network traffic and log analysis, prioritization and differentiation between potential intrusion attempts, determination of false alarms, insider threat and APT detection, and malware analysis/forensics
Supports the production and maintenance standard operational processes and procedures and playbooks for use by all shift personnel
Provide enterprise-wide management of security incidents, managed network space, to detect, respond, and report all computer related incidents that includes daily monitoring of information systems, vulnerability remediation, intrusion detection, log reviews, and malware tracking
Assess, identify, and remediate of the individuals and/or systems affected
Coordinate all information security incidents complied with timeline specifics
Coordinate the development of reports from the SIEM, NIDS, and HIDS
Remain up to date with current attack methods and characteristics in order to identify threats and advise on prevention, mitigation and remediation
Perform other tasks consistent with the goals and objectives of the department/contract
Perform other duties as assigned by Senior Program Executive
Responsible to fully document assigned tickets to show all work performed in order to pass SLRs
Responsible to manage team to fully document assigned tickets to show all work performed in order to pass SLRs

Benefits

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.
To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.
We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

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