Cybersecurity Incident Handler, Senior

Booz Allen Hamilton•San Antonio, TX

8d•$99,000 - $225,000

About The Position

Cybersecurity Incident Handler, Senior The Opportunity: As a security operations center (SOC) 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 improve monitoring strategies and analyze threats. You’ll work with the team to understand, mitigate, and respond to threats quickly, restoring operations and limiting the impact. You’ll guide efforts 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 Air Force networks from malicious actors. Join us. The world can’t wait.

Requirements

Experience in a SOC, incident response, or cyber threat analysis role
Experience in analyzing logs, network traffic, digital forensics, malware analysis, threat intelligence, and cybersecurity
Experience with incident response frameworks, such as NIST or MITRE ATT&CK
Knowledge of SIEM, such as Splunk, Elastic, QRadar, or Sentinel, and EDR, such as CrowdStrike or Microsoft Defender, IDS, and IPS
Knowledge of operating system-specific exploitation vectors
TS/SCI clearance
HS diploma or GED
DoD 8140 Level II Certification, such as Security+, CySA+, or CISSP Certification

Nice To Haves

Experience using Microsoft Office products
Experience with cyber technologies and capabilities, including continuous monitoring, incident response, advanced threat hunt, ongoing assessments, and secure Cloud and mobile capabilities
Experience with Cloud and DevSecOps
Experience with cybersecurity tools and solutions such as Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Corelight, Suricata or Snort, Palo Alto and Cisco firewalls, Archer Case Management, ServiceNow, Threat Connect, Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk SOAR, Cofense, IronPort Mail Gateways, or Microsoft G5 Defender suite
Possession of excellent verbal and written communication skills
Possession of excellent time management and analytical skills

Responsibilities

Improve monitoring strategies and analyze threats
Work with the team to understand, mitigate, and respond to threats quickly, restoring operations and limiting the impact
Guide efforts 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