Senior Cybersecurity Defense Analyst III

Colorado Springs, CO, US • Posted 8 hours ago • Updated 8 hours ago
Full Time
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Skills

  • Firewall
  • Recovery
  • Reporting
  • Intrusion Detection
  • Management
  • Collaboration
  • Turnover
  • Documentation
  • Cyber Security
  • Incident Management
  • Network
  • System On A Chip
  • Training
  • IT Management
  • Mentorship
  • DoD
  • IC
  • Integrated Circuit
  • Internal Communications
  • Security Clearance
  • Continuous Integration

Summary

Title: Senior Cyber Defense Analyst III

Location: Colorado Springs, CO

Clearance: TS/SCI with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph

Job Details:
  • Perform and lead advanced investigation of complex security events and incidents across network, endpoint, identity, firewall, vulnerability, and other available telemetry
  • Perform cyber defense incident triage, including validation, enrichment, determination of scope, urgency, potential impact, and appropriate escalation
  • Support incident handling across detection, investigation, analysis, containment/remediation coordination, recovery, and reporting in accordance with established authorities and procedures
  • Correlate incident and security data across multiple sources to identify affected systems, users, vulnerabilities, adversary activity, and related events
  • Collect and preserve relevant intrusion artifacts and investigative evidence in accordance with established procedures
  • Communicate incident status, findings, risk, and recommended actions to SOC personnel, technical teams, management, and government stakeholders as appropriate
  • Serve as a senior technical escalation point to less expereinced team members and provide hands-on guidance during complex investigations
  • Lead portions of incident response activities, including scoping, evidence analysis, containment recommendations, technical coordination, and post-incident review
  • Conduct proactive analysis and threat hunting when warranted to identify related or previously undetected activity
  • Develop, maintain, and improve analyst runbooks, investigative procedures, escalation criteria, incident playbooks, and shift-turnover practices
  • Partner with threat analysts and engineering personnel to identify telemetry gaps, detection gaps, false positives, and opportunities for improved enrichment or automation
  • Mentor junior analysts, support analyst qualification and exercises, and perform quality review of investigations and case documentation
  • Translate incident lessons learned into improved detections, procedures, training, and defensive recommendations

Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree from an accredited institute in a technical discipline applicable to the position; an additional 4 years of may be substituted in lieu of a degree
  • Minimum six (6) years of relevant experience in addition to education level
  • Significant hands-on experience conducting cybersecurity investigations and incident response in enterprise environments.
  • Strong knowledge of network and host-based investigation, common adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures, and the MITRE ATT&CK framework
  • Experience developing or improving SOC procedures, incident playbooks, runbooks, or analyst training materials
  • Experience serving as an escalation point, technical lead, or mentor for cyber defense analysts
  • Must possess current DoD 8570 IAT II or IAM II certification
  • Experience working in a DoD or IC environment
  • Current active TS/SCI clearance, with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph

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  • Dice Id: 90789821
  • Position Id: f9affec6dc8056a626c6d2f6c0b06503
  • Posted 8 hours ago
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