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Daily responsibilities of the SOC are ever changing, however, you can expect to regularly conduct vulnerability assessments, analyze cyber threats, monitor the email gateway and create reports on all confirmed or suspicious activities. You will work closely with the Tier I and other Tier II personnel to effectively and efficiently provide optimum service to our customers as well as assist with training SOC Analyst I team members when needed. Additionally, in this position you will:\nUse intrusion detection technologies to apply techniques for identifying host and network-based intrusions.\nCreate, update, and resolve incident tickets that have been tasked to Tier II and appropriately document all alerts and incidents in the ticketing system.\nReview asset discovery and vulnerability assessment data.\nLead incidents from alert to resolution:Leverage emerging threat intelligence (Indicators of Compromise, updated rules, etc.) to identify affected systems and the scope of the attack.\nReview and collect asset data (logs, configurations, running processes, ) on these systems for further investigation.\nDetermine and direct remediation and recovery efforts including tasking of IHT1 as needed.\nDetermine and request engineering, forensics, or threat intelligencesupport.\nInform and brief status of incidents to CSOC manager, CISO, DCIO, or CIO.\n\nMay manage and configure security monitoring tools (SIEM, IDS, Firewall, Access Control Lists, etc.) to mitigate existing threats / vulnerabilities.\nInterface and take guidance from the CSOC manager (government position).\nReview trouble tickets generated by Tier 1.\nReview threat intel and create notifications and share with specified personnel.\nHandle other tasks that tier II level of experience and talent can complete.\nDesign incident response for cloud service models.\nPerform damage assessments.\nPreserve evidence integrity according to standard operating procedures or national standards.\nProtect networks against (e.g., NIPS, anti-malware, restrict/prevent external devices, spam filters).\nRecognize and categorize types of vulnerabilities and associated attacks.\nSecure network communications.\nUse security event correlation Tools.\nIdentify, capture, contain, and report malware.\nUtilize the SOC standard operating procedures (SOP) to perform daily tasks, resolve incidents and preserve evidence integrity. May provide input for and assist with updating procedures.\nQualifications\nAs a requirement of this position, all candidates must be a U.S. Citizen in accordance with 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(2)(C). \nMust hold an active Dept. of War Top Secret Clearance.\nAt least three (3) years of professional experience in incident detection and response, malware analysis, or cyber forensics and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or related field.\nHold at least one certification as required by DoD 8570.01-M and DoD Directive 8140.01, IAT Level II or higher. \nMust hold at least one of the following additional certifications: CompTIA CASP+, GIAC GCIH, Microsoft AZ-500, Microsoft SC-200, Splunk Core Certified Advanced Power User\nMust have extensive experience working with various security methodologies, standard operating procedures, processes, and workflows. Experience configuring and implementing various technical security solutions, extensive experience providing analysis and trending of security log data from a large number of heterogeneous security devices. \nExperience with some or all of the following is required:Computer networking concepts, OSI model, and network protocols such as TCP/IP, Dynamic Host Configuration, Domain Name System (DNS), and directory services, and network security \nHost/network access control mechanisms (e.g., access control list, capabilities lists).\nnetwork security architecture concepts including topology, protocols, components, and principles (e.g., application of defense-in-depth).\nNetwork traffic analysis methods and packet-level \nCyber threats and vulnerabilities; cyber-attack stages, classes of attacks and attackers; cyber defense and information security policies, procedures, and \nIncident response and handling methodologies, incident categories, and timelines for \nIntrusion detection methodologies and techniques for detecting host and network-based intrusions.\nMalware analysis concepts and \ncloud service models and how those models can limit incident \nApplication Security Risks (e.g. Open Web Application Security Project Top 10 list)\nSystem administration, network, and operating system hardening techniques as well as data backup and\nSystem and application security threats and vulnerabilities (e.g., buffer overflow, mobile code, cross-site scripting, Procedural Language/Structured Query Language [PL/SQL] and injections, race conditions, covert channel, replay, return-oriented attacks, malicious code). \n\nExperience with the following: JIRA (Atlassian issue tracking system), Palo Alto Firewall, SNORT IDS, AlienVault SIEM, Barracuda Mail Spam / Virus Firewall, and HBSS.\nThis team operates in a 24/7 shift environment. 1st, 2nd and 3rd shifts run Monday - Thursday or Friday - Monday, are 10 hours per day and rotate every 3 months.\nPay Transparency Statement\nAMERICAN SYSTEMS is committed to pay transparency for our applicants and employee-owners. 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