SOC Analyst (5228)

SMX

8h•Onsite

About The Position

SMX is seeking a Journeyman level SOC Analyst to support their NAWCAD customer onsite at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station. SMX is a team of technical and domain experts dedicated to enabling missions, from priority national security initiatives for the DoD to highly assured and compliant solutions for healthcare. They understand that digital transformation is key to future success and strive to accelerate impact on the world by bringing cutting-edge technology and an expansive view of what’s possible to every engagement. Their delivery model and unique approaches harness deep technical and domain knowledge, providing forward-looking insights and practical solutions to power secure mission acceleration. SMX is an Equal Opportunity employer including disabilities and veterans. Selected applicants may be subject to a background investigation and/or education verification. SMX does not sponsor new applicants for employment authorization or immigration related support for this position (i.e. H1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN, E-2, E-3, L-1 and O-1, or any EADs or other forms of work authorization that require immigration support from an employer).

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