Senior Cyber Security Analyst

Job Description

Our Enterprise IT team has an opportunity for a Senior Cyber Security Analyst. This is a trulyglobal position, reporting into the global Enterprise IT team in the USA. You'll enjoy working in a collaborative international team in a 'follow the sun' model.

As a Senior Cyber Security Analyst, you will be focused on defending Leidos' global networks through threat hunting, and tactical analysis of ongoing attacks by criminal and nation state actors.

In this role, you will perform data analysis, incident response, investigative analysis, and research on existing and emerging cyber threats, particularly those directed against Leidos' global networks.

You will be expected to "think like an adversary" and engage in threat hunting operations leveraging your understanding of the tactics, techniques and procedures employed by advanced threats combined with intelligence from multiple sources. Additionally, you will provide reporting and briefings to other teams and leadership in order to maintain appropriate levels of situational awareness, and contribute to technical innovation to further evolve Leidos' defensive capabilities and methodologies

A “Day in the Life” will see you;

• Analyze network and host activity associated with both successful and unsuccessful intrusions by advanced attackers.
• Perform network traffic analysis utilizing raw packet data, net flow, IDS, and custom sensor output.
• Leverage understanding of tactics, techniques and procedures associated with advanced threats to create and add custom signatures that mitigate highly dynamic threats to the enterprise.
• Employ advanced forensic tools and techniques for attack reconstruction and intelligence gathering.
• Coordinate resources for, and lead enterprise incident response efforts, driving incidents to resolution.
• Identify and evaluate new sources of intelligence, and integrate numerous types of cyber security data sources into cyber threat analysis products.
• Proactively research emerging cyber threats. Apply analytical understanding of attacker methodologies and tactics, system vulnerabilities, and key indicators of attacks and exploits.
• Produce threat intelligence reports and briefings that provide situational awareness of cyber threats impacting the company's global network infrastructure, to every level of the organization.
• Lead threat hunt operations using known adversary tactics, techniques and procedures, as well as indicators of attack, in order to detect advanced threats to the enterprise.
• Collaborate using information and knowledge sharing networks and professional relationships to achieve common goals.
• Stay abreast of world-wide events that are indicators of developing trends for situational awareness.
• Mentor less experienced team members.
• Provide on-call support for incident response efforts outside of core hours as needed.

Qualifications

This role is suited to a senior Cyber Analyst who has strong communication and stakeholder management skills. You are collaborative in approach and experienced in working with C-Suite stakeholders across the organisation. You have experience mentoring peers in technical capability and are able to work in a global matrix, requiring some calls outside of standard business hours.

• Demonstrated skills and ability as an Cyber Incident Responder, Threat Researcher and/or Intelligence Analyst, including understanding of behavioural based threat models such as ATT&CK, Cyber Kill Chain, Diamond Model, etc., including skills and experience in:
• Dealing with activities involving APT threat actors, and working with ongoing pervasive intrusion sets.
• Experience in conventional network\host-based intrusion analysis, digital forensics, or malware analysis.
• Experience performing "deep dive" analysis and correlation of log data from multiple sources including PCAP and forensic artefacts.
• Experience with Splunk (preferred) or other SIEM-type platform
• Ability to create, modify, and implement both Snort and YARA signatures.
• Demonstrated proficiency with digital forensics in dealing with Linux, Unix and Microsoft operating environments including forensic data capture, data processing and investigations and malware analysis.
• Experience with vulnerability assessments, threat and data modelling, advanced data correlation, and statistical analysis to develop alerts, notable events, investigative dashboards, and metrics driven reports.
• Strong understanding of Operating Systems and Network Protocols or background in network and systems administration including Microsoft Server, Desktop, Linux and Unix based systems and demonstrated experience with multiple scripting languages (Python, Perl, PowerShell, Unix shell) used for task automation, data acquisition and analysis.

Additional Information

Ability to hold and maintain a Security Clearance is essential, therefore the successful candidate will need to be anAustralian Citizen.