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ID #12373443
State Virginia
City Fortbelvoir
Job type Permanent
Salary USD TBD TBD
Source Leidos
Showed 2021-04-18
Date 2021-04-17
Deadline 2021-06-16
Category Security
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Junior Cyber Security Analyst (Tier I)

Virginia, Fortbelvoir, 22060 Fortbelvoir USA

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Description

Job Description:

This position provides Cyber Security Analysis to C5ISR Center Sustaining Base Network Assurance Branch (SBNAB) Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO) Security Operations Center (SOC). Beyond advising and guiding technical matters, this position is tasked with driving implementation and adoption of new tools, research, capabilities, frameworks, and methodologies while ensuring those already in use are implemented, utilized properly, and improved.

Primary Responsibilities
  • Operating in a command-line environment
  • Work with multiple operating systems relevant to our customer environments (Windows, Mac, Linux) and the similarities and differences in network traffic generated in each.
  • Work with basic security concepts and terminology such as the CIA triad, industry best practices, risk, vulnerability, threat, attack vectors, encryption, encoding, and various types of threat actors.
  • Work with protocols at layers 2 and higher in the OSI model, to include ARP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, DNS, Telnet, SSH, HTTP, SSL, SNMP, SMTP, and other common protocols that use the well-known ports.
  • Process IDS alerts and identifying incidents and events in customer data.
  • Conduct packet level analysis using tcpdump or Wireshark on the session and surrounding traffic of an IDS alert.
  • Perform basic IDS (Snort, Suricata, Bro/Zeek, etc.) rule creation and tuning based on indicators in network traffic.
  • Writing incident reports, process documentation, and interact with customer.
  • Transcribe and implement indicators into an environment.
  • Consume policy documentation and determine applicability in a network.

Basic Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree and 2+ years of prior IT experience, or Associate degree with 4+ years of experience; additional certifications and experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
  • 1+ years' experience working in a SOC environment
  • DoD 8570 IAT II certifications required prior to starting
  • Demonstrated knowledge of industry accepted standards.
  • Demonstrated experience with researching and fielding new and innovative technology
  • Motivated self-starter with strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
  • Must be a US Citizen.
  • Candidate must possess an active TS/SCI, or a Top Secret clearance with a current SSBI, and be eligible to obtain a TS/SCI clearance.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Technical understanding of core current cybersecurity technologies as well as emerging capabilities.
  • Hands-on cybersecurity experience (Protect, Detect, Respond or Sustain) within a Computer Incident Response organization.
  • Demonstrated understanding of the life cycle of cybersecurity threats, attacks, attack vectors and methods of exploitation with an understanding of intrusion set tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs).

External Referral Bonus:Eligible

Potential for Telework:No

Clearance Level Required:Top Secret

Travel:Yes, 10% of the time

Scheduled Weekly Hours:40

Shift:Day

Requisition Category:Professional

Job Family:Cyber Operations

Pay Range:

Leidos is a Fortune 500 ® information technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world's toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, homeland security, civil, and health markets. The company's 38,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Va., Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $11.09 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2020. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available here.

Leidos will never ask you to provide payment-related information at any part of the employment application process. And Leidos will communicate with you only through emails that are sent from a Leidos.com email address. If you receive an email purporting to be from Leidos that asks for payment-related information or any other personal information, please report the email to spam.leidos@leidos.com.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.

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