Cyber Threat Analyst

1. Responsible for performing triage on all security escalations and detections to determine scope, severity, and root cause.
2. Monitor cyber security events, detecting incidents, and investigating incidents.
3. Identify, recommend strategies, develop, and implement automation use cases leveraging AI/ML capabilities.
4. Support deploying, configuring, testing, and maintaining Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) platform, and tools integrated with AI/ML capabilities to enhance threat detection, analysis and response.
5. Provide support to contract Program Manager, as necessary.
6. Effectively communicates technical information to non-technical audiences.
7. Influence others to comply with policies and conform to standards and best practices.

Qualification Requirements:
7+ years of experience with security operations, threat hunting, and incident response
Experience in analyzing alerts from Cloud, SIEM, EDR, and XDR tools, and alerts tuning process with preference on SentinelOne, Armis, and Splunk.
Experience in configuring network devices and analyzing network traffic
Experience with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) based security tools.
Experience in researching, developing, and implementing SOAR use cases.
Familiar with Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) platform
Familiarity with cybersecurity operation center functions.
Experience configuring and re-configuring security tools, including SenintelOne and Splunk.
Experience implementing Security frameworks, such as MITRE ATT&CK and NIST, and can interpret use cases into actionable monitoring solutions.
MUST have one or more of the following Certification(s): CISSP, CISA, CISM, GIAC, RHCE.

Strong working knowledge of:
Develop, test and Implement dynamic Risk-Based Alerting (RBA)
Identifying and developing RBA and identifying use cases for SOAR and AI/ML.
Monitor and analyze alerts from various sources such as IDS/IPS, Splunk, Tanium, MS Defender, SentinelOne and Cloud security tools leveraging SOAR and AI/ML capabilities, and provide recommendation for further tuning of these alerts when necessary.
Analyze network traffic utilizing available tools and provide recommendations
Perform vulnerability assessments of recently discovered CVEs against USPS systems and network.
Assist in the process of configuring or re-configuring the security tools.
Perform analysis on hosts running on a variety of platforms and operating systems, to include, but not limited to, Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Linux, as well as embedded systems and mainframes.
Assist in the construction of signatures which can be implemented on cyber defense network tools in response to new or observed threats within the network environment or enclave.
Test, evaluate, and verify hardware and/or software to determine compliance with defined specifications and requirements

Education/Overall experience:
o A minimum of eight (8) to twelve (12) years relevant experience.