Cybersecurity Operations Center Analyst, Senior
The Opportunity:
Are you ready to take a strategic role in cyber defense? Are you looking for an opportunity to protect critical infrastructure from the constant onslaught of cyber-attacks? If you want to sharpen your skillsby analyzing threats in real-time, you want to be a Cybersecurity Operations CenterAnalyst.
As a Cybersecurity Operations CenterAnalyst on our security operations centerteam, you’ll improve tier monitoring strategies and analyze threats, using state-of-the-art tools and platforms. You’ll work with the team to comprehend, mitigate, and respond to threats quickly, restoring operations and limiting the impact. You’ll manage efforts to figure out just how many systems are affected and assist recovery efforts. You’ll combine threat intelligence, event data, and assessments of events to identify patterns to understand attackers’ goals to stop them from succeeding. This is a great opportunity to continue to build your cybersecurity skillswith hands-on experiencein threat assessment and incident response. Join us as we protect clients from malicious actors.
In this role, you’ll lead a team of professionals as they use cyberspace capabilities to evaluate potential weaknesses as well as the effectiveness of mitigations for cyber security solutions. You will leverage cyberspace operations systems to aggregate threat feeds that inform briefings for senior leadership aligned to our Army client.
If you want to be in the fight, working shoulder to shoulder with our mission partner influencing the most critical global cyber missions, this is the opportunity for you.
Join us. The world can’t wait.
You Have:
- 7+ years of experienceworking in a Security Operations Center(SOC)at a classified level within the DoW
- Experienceleading every phase of the incident lifecycle, including conducting rapid triage to determine severity, performing deep-dive investigations into root causes, and assessing appropriate containment, eradication, and remediation strategies to halt active threats
- Experienceworking with cybersecurity staff to evolve continuous monitoring toolsets by generating new detection rules and refining existing alerts to maximize high-fidelity alerts and minimize false positives
- Experiencerefining, developing, and maturing standard operating procedures (SOPs)and SOC responsibilities throughout each stage of the incident response lifecycle
- Ability tomanage post-compromise activities, focusing on the eradication of malicious artifacts, guiding the secure recovery of mission services, and generating comprehensive After-Action Reports (AARs)to document lessons learned
- Ability toserve as a primary focal point for active incident response operations, taking responsibility for technical coordination and clear communication with key stakeholders
- TS/SCI clearance
- Bachelor's degree
- Ability toobtain an 8570 DoW approved CSSP baseline certification, including CEH, CFR, CCNA Cyber Ops, CCNA-Security, CySA+, GCIA, GCIH, GICSP, Cloud+, SCYBER, or PenTest+, before start date
Nice If You Have:
- Experienceusing Elastic for monitoring, analysis, and case management
- Experienceusing endpoint tools to successfully hunt for adversarial behavior
- Experiencewith GCFA, GNFA, or equivalentrelevantdigital forensics
- Ability toconduct threat hunting using network and host-based information
- TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph
- 8570 CSSP Analyst or Incident Responder Certification
Clearance:
Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information;TS/SCI clearance is required.
Compensation
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Salary at Booz Allen is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $99,000.00 to $225,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Booz Allen’s total compensation package for employees. This posting will close within 90 days from the Posting Date.Identity Statement
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Work Model
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Commitment to Non-Discrimination
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.