Cybersecurity Ops Analyst Sr

SAIC • Fort Meade, MD

6h • Onsite

About The Position

SAIC is seeking a Cybersecurity Ops Analyst Sr to join a joint Contractor-Government Team supporting its customer at Fort Meade, Maryland. The role supports the customer's aligned missions and deployable Incident Response Teams through cyber threat intelligence, Indicators of Compromise products, computer network defense, incident response, threat analysis, and cyber investigations.

The analyst conducts threat analysis using diverse sources; evaluates the relevance of threats and the cyber threat landscape; and communicates recommendations for detecting and mitigating threats. The role also involves collecting, aggregating, interpreting, and correlating log data from host, network, user, and intelligence sources to uncover threats. The analyst produces intelligence-community-standard written reports and delivers verbal briefings to senior military leaders.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and five or more years of experience, or four additional years of work experience in lieu of a degree.
• Familiarity with intelligence tradecraft, cyber threat intelligence methodologies, and cyber threat frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK and Cyber Kill Chain.
• Strong writing and briefing skills, including experience delivering reports to senior leadership.
• Experience with a Big Data Platform and the Joint Cyber Warfare Architecture (JCWA) Common Runtime Stack for Data (JCRS-D).
• Experience in network analysis using PCAP, network metadata, and security logs.
• Experience using AI.
• Expertise in adversarial cyber actors, historical cyber activity, and the current cyber landscape.
• Experience conducting research on classified systems and using open-source cyber resources.
• Previous experience in a government, military, or intelligence community role.
• Structured Query Language (SQL).
• Detection engineering.
• Zero Trust Architecture.
• Cloud computing.
• Active TS/SCI clearance with a CI Poly upon starting; the polygraph must have been completed within the last five years.

Nice To Haves

• Active industry cybersecurity and/or technical certifications, such as Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC).
• Government-facilitated cyber training.

Responsibilities

• Perform cyber threat intelligence, computer network defense, incident response, threat analysis, and cyber investigations.
• Draft Indicators of Compromise products.
• Conduct threat analysis using various sources to identify threats.
• Analyze the relevance of threats and the cyber threat landscape, and articulate recommendations for mitigating and detecting threats.
• Produce intelligence-community-standard written reports and provide verbal briefings to senior military leaders.
• Collect, aggregate, and interpret log data from various sources.
• Correlate host, network, user, and intelligence-report data to uncover threats.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior