Defensive Cyber Operations Analyst

Booz Allen Hamilton

About The Position

Defensive Cyber Operations Analyst The Opportunity: As a cyber professional, you know that understanding adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures is vital to producing the intel that enables the success of mission owners. At Booz Allen, you can apply your skills and broad knowledge to inform strategies and mitigate the most pressing vulnerabilities. Here, you aren’t just deciphering reports. You’re telling the story to inform our nation's most far-reaching cybersecurity decisions. As a cyber threat specialist on our team, you’ll help customers solve problems using the latest software and cybersecurity tools. Using advanced knowledge of networking, you’ll work alongside multiple stakeholders to evaluate risk and make meaningful recommendations. You’ll monitor security environments and identify security gaps through the eyes of an adversary. In this role, you’ll impact Navy missions by monitoring the network environment for new and evolving threats and providing cybersecurity expertise, analysis, and support to defensive cyber operations (DCO). Booz Allen is committed to creating an environment where you can expand your cyber career through mentoring, the opportunity to leverage new resources, and the ability to gain in-demand certifications to sharpen your skill set. With opportunities supporting both the private and public sectors across multiple geographies, your career is only limited by your own appetite for exploration. Join us. The world can’t wait.

Requirements

4+ years of experience with DoD operational missions and impacts
4+ years of experience with cyber strategic and operational environments
4+ years of experience with DoD Information Technology, DoD Information Networks, or cyberspace tactical environments
Experience with TCP and IP networking
Ability to develop dashboards and queries within network security tools and network monitoring systems
Top Secret clearance
HS diploma or GED
DoD 8140 IAT II Certification, including Security+ Certification

Nice To Haves

Experience with DoD or Navy cybersecurity and acquisition processes
Experience with the DoD or Navy Cyber Test and Evaluation (T&E) 6-phase process
Experience with penetration testing
Experience with cyber resilience and cyber survivability requirements
Experience with cybersecurity management tools
Experience with Bro and Zeek and Suricata networking monitoring tools, RedSeal threat modeling, Splunk queries for SIEM aggregation, and ACAS vulnerability scanning
Knowledge of Cross Domain Solutions (CDS)
TS/SCI clearance
Bachelor’s degree
CCNP Certification

Responsibilities

monitor the network environment for new and evolving threats
providing cybersecurity expertise, analysis, and support to defensive cyber operations (DCO)