SOC Analyst (5333)

SMX•Patuxent River, MD, MD

3d•$87,700 - $146,100•Onsite

About The Position

SMX is seeking a Journeyman level SOC Analyst to support our NAWCAD customer onsite at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station. This role involves providing timely detection, identification, and alerting of possible attacks/intrusions, anomalous activities, and misuse activities, distinguishing them from benign activities. The analyst will implement and manage various security tools, including SIEMs, firewalls, IDS/IPS, threat and vulnerability management tools, data loss prevention tools, filtering technologies, traffic inspection solutions, reporting technology, and data analytics platforms. Responsibilities include continuous monitoring and analysis of systems using cyber defense tools to identify malicious activity, documenting and escalating incidents, analyzing identified malicious activity to determine exploited weaknesses and effects, performing event correlation for situational awareness, conducting research and analysis across various data sets, receiving and analyzing network alerts, performing cyber defense trend analysis and reporting, characterizing and analyzing network traffic, coordinating with enterprise-wide cyber defense staff, and providing daily summary reports of network events. The role also includes threat research, OSINT, classified source analysis for TTPS, IOCs, and signatures, RMF/CONMON support, and supporting engineering to ensure secure network designs and operations.

Requirements

Clearance Required: Top Secret
3-5 years of applicable work experience
CompTIA Network+ certification
Operating System certifications
One or more of the following industry certifications: GCIA, GCIH, GCDA, GSOC, GCED, CYSA or equivalent certs
Must be able to maintain DoD-8140 compliance

Nice To Haves

Linux OS experience

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