SOC Analyst Mid/Senior level - Top Secret Clearance

Perrygo Consulting Group • Lexington Park, MD

3d • Onsite

About The Position

Perrygo is a small, rapidly growing company seeking a highly motivated and energetic SOC Analyst (Mid/Senior level) to support their Navy customer in Lexington Park, MD. This role is crucial for providing timely detection, identification, and alerting of potential security incidents and analyzing malicious activity to protect the customer's mission.

Requirements

• Top Secret clearance required.
• Must be able to maintain DoD-8140 Compliance.
• Senior-Level: At least 2 of the GCIA/GCIH/GCDA/GSOC/GCED/CASP or equivalent certs and OS certification.
• Senior-Level: CCNA certification preferred.
• Senior-Level: 7+ years of experience.
• Mid-Level: At least 1 of the GCIA/GCIH/GCDA/GSOC/GCED/CYSA or equivalent certs, OS and Comptia Net+.
• Mid-Level: 3 years applicable work experience.
• TS SSBI Clearance required.

Nice To Haves

• CCNA certification preferred.

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed