Cybersecurity Analyst Principal

Type of Requisition:
Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
None

Public Trust/Other Required:
BI Full 6C (T4)

Job Family:
Cyber and IT Risk Management

Job Qualifications:

Skills:
Cybersecurity, Information Security, Information Technology (IT)
Certifications:
None
Experience:
5 + years of related experience
ship Required:
Yes

Job Description:

Advance your career while impacting our national security in cyber as a Cybersecurity Analyst Principal at GDIT. Here, technologists have many paths to grow a meaningful career supporting cyber missions and operations across the federal government.

MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT
As a Cybersecurity Analyst Principal, the work you'll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of the US Department of Education's Portfolio of Integrated Value-Oriented Technologies (PIVOT). You will play a crucial role via the following responsibilities:

• Oversee the daily operations of the SOC and plans shift activities
• Works closely with Incident Management Team
• Must be willing to lead major incident management process, supports Agency leadership during the activation of major/escalated incidents
• Develop, author, and deliver process improvements for the SOC in order to maintain operational readiness for incident response
• Monitor and report on call volumes, alarm responses, and incident reports to ensure appropriate levels of service are met
• Partner with IT leadership and teams to support operational issues and prepare for potential incidents
• Support annual updates of the incident response concept of operations document
• Support annual incident response tabletop exercises
• Lead, mentor, and coach SOC I and SOC II staff members
• Work as part of a 24x7x365 team delivering real time proactive monitoring and maintenance of supported security tools and associated rules and signatures
• Carry out triage on security events, coordinate incidents with Incident Management Team, IT operations, network engineering, and application teams and support the Incident Management process
• Identify and respond to incidents, to prevent or limit damage to assets, and report incidents
• Detect and analyze incidents, coordinate activities with other stakeholders for containing, eradicating, and recovering from incidents
• Development of advanced analytics and countermeasures to protect critical assets
• IDS monitoring and analysis, network traffic and log analysis, prioritization and differentiation between potential intrusion attempts, determination of false alarms, insider threat and APT detection, and malware analysis/forensics
• Supports the production and maintenance standard operational processes and procedures and playbooks for use by all shift personnel
• Provide enterprise-wide management of security incidents, managed network space, to detect, respond, and report all computer related incidents that includes daily monitoring of information systems, vulnerability remediation, intrusion detection, log reviews, and malware tracking
• Assess, identify, and remediate of the individuals and/or systems affected
• Coordinate all information security incidents complied with timeline specifics
• Coordinate the development of reports from the SIEM, NIDS, and HIDS
• Remain up to date with current attack methods and characteristics in order to identify threats and advise on prevention, mitigation and remediation
• Perform other tasks consistent with the goals and objectives of the department/contract
• Perform other duties as assigned by Senior Program Executive
• Responsible to fully document assigned tickets to show all work performed in order to pass SLRs
• Responsible to manage team to fully document assigned tickets to show all work performed in order to pass SLRs

WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED
Bring your cyber expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT. The Cybersecurity Analyst Principal must have:

Education: Technical Training, Certification(s) or Degree

Experience: 5+ years of related experience

Required Skills:

• Experience composing threat reports and other management level communications
• Leadership experience of teams of 5 or more
• Vulnerability Management - Nessus Vulnerability Scanning
• Configuration Management - STIG/SCAP compliance baselines for windows, mac, linux
• Splunk SEIM / Log Aggregation experience
• Cloud Security - Familiarity with FedRAMP for IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
• Experienced Incident Response Team (IR/IRT) troubleshooting, root cause analysis and remediation verification.
• Knowledge of Identity Management, ICAM/IDAM and authorization, least privilege, reducing unauthorized elevated access.
• Firewall Understanding including basic networking, sub-netting, IDS, NAT, ACL's
• Penetration Test Response and Remediation
• DevSecOps - software development lifecycle security -scanning across the lifecycle and baking in application security for developers and containers
• Microsoft Defender for Endpoint experience

Preferred Skills:

• ServiceNow ticketing and reporting experience
• Linux, Windows, and Active Directory experience
• Experience with Tenable and Palo Alto network security solutions
• Cloud and mobile device experience
• ForeScout CounterAct, DLP solutions and Cylance AV
• CISSP certification

Security Clearance Level: Must be able to obtain a position of Public Trust with the US Department of Education

ship Required

Location: Hybrid at GDIT's Integrated Technology Center in Bossier City, LA

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE
At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.

Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
Flexibility: Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home
Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace

OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY
Explore a career in cyber at GDIT and you'll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your focus on defending and protecting what matters.

The likely salary range for this position is $102,000 - $138,000. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40

Travel Required:
Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options:
Hybrid

Work Location:
USA LA Bossier City

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 30,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50 countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI/ML, Cloud, Cyber and application development. Together with our clients, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.

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