Cyber security analyst Jobs in Washington, DC

Development InfoStructure LLC., ( DEVIS) provides exceptional DevSecOps integration in our agile software development and embedded software solutions, combined with comprehensive IT management and consulting services toour federal, state, and local governments. The outcomes of our research and development, products and universe of services will support the international development community, multiple civilian agencies and the nation's defense and intelligence communities. Our focused research, services and products include complex DevSecOps solutions to support refugee processing across multiple federal agencies, research and development for Signal Intelligence (SIGINT), Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I), Data Analytics, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) development and sensor capabilities supporting both the aerospace / defense and intelligence communities, as well as complex HHS comprehensive care coding requirements, and integrated management systems for our countries civilian agencies (FAA, FDIC, HOR, etc.).

Our primary mission is to best serve the needs of our clients by solutioning with our stakeholder teams to ensure that the goals and objectives of our customers are proactively solutioned, such that opportunities to invest our time in developing long-term solutions and assets are abundant and move our clients forward efficiently.

At DEVIS, we are enthusiastic about our research, our work and embracing an environment where all are supported in the mission, while maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

Overview

In this technical and hands-on role, you will focus on researching threats, security events, and alerts posed by cyber criminals to various systems, technologies, operations, and programs. You will analyze and conduct research to determine a cyber criminal's capabilities, intentions, and attack approaches, including those with multiple phases. You will be responsible for proactively responding to security alerts, threat hunting, and identifying malicious attacks against the organization's systems and infrastructure by utilizing various security tools such as Splunk and Tanium. In addition, you will take a supportive role in mitigating newly discovered threats. You will be collaborating with Cloud and Splunk Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) & Engineers in RPC's Security Operations Team, and when necessary you will support them with engineering, upgrading, updating and fine-tuning various security tools.

This role will also include developing and documenting new and innovative threat hunting and incident response processes to increase and mature the security operation center team's ability to find existing threats that are otherwise going unidentified or unnoticed.

Responsibilities

• Solid knowledge for building and designing queries, reports, and dashboard in Splunk Enterprise in order to extract log information from various sources and conduct threat hunting and incident response.
• Support Cyber Security Operations Team with Engineering Tasks including implementation, upgrade, update and maturing new Security Tool Sets when applicable.
• Utilize EDR, IDS, and other security tools to conduct cyber threat hunts and incident response.
• Rapidly respond, escalate, and remediate incidents to minimize risk exposure and ensure system availability; proactively monitor internal and external-facing environments.
• Identify attacker tools, tactics, and procedures to develop indicators of compromise. Form and articulate expert opinions based on findings and analysis.
• Seek opportunities to automate detection and remediation and reduce response times for incidents.
• Provide incident response support and coordination, including investigating security incidents and coordinating with other teams to contain and remediate the incident.
• Producing reports, metrics, and briefings that include perspectives on the behavior of adversaries.
• Collaborate and support documentation is complete and in compliance with information security policies pertaining to incident response and security monitoring our systems.
• Manage and support development of security operations playbooks to ensure threat detection, monitoring, response, and forensics activities align with best practices, minimize gaps in detection and response, and provide comprehensive mitigation of threats.
• Support the team with evaluation of third-party products and services to verify they meet security and compliance requirements.
• Develops technical solutions to autonomously verify compliance with required technical controls.
• Present findings / reports to stakeholders on a weekly basis Experience with more than one or more enterprise scale EDR and SIEM tool.
• Experience consuming and analyzing Cyber Threat Intelligence for actionable takeaways.

Required Skills and Qualifications

Clearance Requirements

Additional Perks / Benefits

Starting at $100,000

Devis is an AA / EOE / M / F / Disabled / VET Employer committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to an individual's race, color, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status, national origin or disability.