SOC Analyst Mid Level

Perrygo Consulting Group•Lexington Park, MD

11d•Onsite

About The Position

Perrygo is a small, rapidly growing company; we are passionate about our employees as well as supporting our customers and their mission. We are excited for the opportunity to bring aboard highly motivated and energetic individuals to join our teams. Currently, we are seeking a SOC Analyst Mid Level. This role supports our Navy customer in Lexington Park, MD. Job Description and Responsibilities: Functional Responsibility/Principal Duties: Provide timely detection, identification, and alerting of possible attacks/intrusions, anomalous activities, and misuse activities and distinguish these incidents and events from benign activities. Implement and manage multiple security tools to include SIEM’s, firewalls, IDS/IPS’s, threat and vulnerability management tools, data loss prevention tools, filtering technologies, traffic inspection solutions, reporting technology and data analytics platforms. Use cyber defense tools for continual monitoring and analysis of system to identify malicious activity. Document and escalate incidents (including event’s history, status, and potential impact for further action) that may cause ongoing and immediate impact to the environment. Analyze identified malicious activity to determine weaknesses exploited, exploitation methods, effects on system and information. Perform event correlation using information gathered from a variety of sources within the enterprise to gain situational awareness and determine the effectiveness of an observed attack. Conduct research, analysis, and correlation across a wide variety of all source data sets (indications and warnings). Receive and analyze network alerts from various sources within the enterprise and determine possible causes of such alerts. Perform cyber defense trend analysis and reporting. Characterize and analyze network traffic to identify anomalous activity and potential threats to network resources. Coordinate with enterprise-wide cyber defense staff to validate network alerts. Identify and analyze anomalies in network traffic using metadata. Provide daily summary reports of network events and activity relevant to cyber defense practices. Identify applications and operating systems of a network device based on network traffic. Threat research, OSINT, and classified sources for TTPS, IOCs and signatures for monitoring and alerting. RMF/CONMON support to aid in the mitigation of findings. Supporting engineering to ensure network designs and operations are secure from inception to production.

Requirements

At least 1 of the GCIA/GCIH/GCDA/GSOC/GCED/CYSA or equivalent certs, OS and Comptia Net+ in addition to 5 years applicable work experience.
Must be able to maintain DoD-8140 Compliance.
Bachelors or Masters dependent upon level. Substitutions include Associate’s Degree plus 2 years’ additional work experience may be substituted for a Bachelor’s Degree. High school diploma or GED and/or a relevant technical certification plus 4 years’ additional work experience may be substituted for a Bachelor’s Degree. Bachelor’s Degree plus 5 years additional work experience may be substituted for a Master’s Degree.
Top Secret SSBI (must be a US Citizen)

Nice To Haves

None

Responsibilities

Provide timely detection, identification, and alerting of possible attacks/intrusions, anomalous activities, and misuse activities and distinguish these incidents and events from benign activities.
Implement and manage multiple security tools to include SIEM’s, firewalls, IDS/IPS’s, threat and vulnerability management tools, data loss prevention tools, filtering technologies, traffic inspection solutions, reporting technology and data analytics platforms.
Use cyber defense tools for continual monitoring and analysis of system to identify malicious activity.
Document and escalate incidents (including event’s history, status, and potential impact for further action) that may cause ongoing and immediate impact to the environment.
Analyze identified malicious activity to determine weaknesses exploited, exploitation methods, effects on system and information.
Perform event correlation using information gathered from a variety of sources within the enterprise to gain situational awareness and determine the effectiveness of an observed attack.
Conduct research, analysis, and correlation across a wide variety of all source data sets (indications and warnings).
Receive and analyze network alerts from various sources within the enterprise and determine possible causes of such alerts.
Perform cyber defense trend analysis and reporting.
Characterize and analyze network traffic to identify anomalous activity and potential threats to network resources.
Coordinate with enterprise-wide cyber defense staff to validate network alerts.
Identify and analyze anomalies in network traffic using metadata.
Provide daily summary reports of network events and activity relevant to cyber defense practices.
Identify applications and operating systems of a network device based on network traffic.
Threat research, OSINT, and classified sources for TTPS, IOCs and signatures for monitoring and alerting.
RMF/CONMON support to aid in the mitigation of findings.
Supporting engineering to ensure network designs and operations are secure from inception to production.

Benefits

Paid Time Off (PTO)/Sick Leave
11 Paid Holidays
Flexible Work Schedules (offering a healthy work-life balance whenever possible)
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Medical, Dental, and Vision
LTD/STD, AD&D, and Life-Employer Paid
Supplemental Life and Accident options
Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution
401K Plan with employer Safe Harbor contribution
Profit Sharing Plan