Senior Incident Handler - Team Lead

Peraton Overview

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Responsibilities

Peraton is seeking an experienced, mission-driven Cyber Incident Response Team Lead to guide and oversee a dedicated team of Senior Incident Response Analysts.

In this role, you will provide operational leadership, technical direction, and administrative oversight for all cyber incident handling across the GCC Cybersecurity Service Provider (CSSP) mission. You will serve as the primary operational liaison to supported unit commanders, GCC leadership, NETCOM, and ARCYBER during high-priority incidents, while driving the continuous modernization of incident response playbooks, detection-to-response workflows, and team performance metrics.

Escalation Management: Serve as the incident commander or escalation lead for high-severity, complex cyber events (e.g., advanced persistent threats, enterprise ransomware, insider threat campaigns).

Cross-Command Coordination: Act as the primary operational point of contact between incident response analysts, GCC leadership, supported unit commanders, NETCOM, and ARCYBER; brief general officers and senior executive leadership on incident scope, containment posture, and mission risk.

Technical Quality Control: Review, validate, and authorize final incident reports, technical analysis summaries, and formal closure documentation before dissemination to internal stakeholders and external Army cyber authorities.

Doctrine & Compliance Alignment: Ensure all team operations strictly adhere to NIST SP 800-61 (Rev. 3), CJCSM 6510.01B, DoD/Army CSSP evaluation criteria, and applicable NETCOM/ARCYBER directives.

Post-Incident & Root-Cause Reviews: Facilitate enterprise-level post-incident reviews and lessons-learned sessions; translate tactical findings into strategic remediation plans, capability requirements, and detection engineering updates.

Playbook & Exercise Governance: Lead the design, validation, and regular execution of tabletop exercises and cyber incident response playbooks (covering ransomware, credential access, living-off-the-land techniques, and supply chain compromise).

Team Growth & Evaluation: Manage analyst training plans, certifications, career pathing, and performance evaluations; foster technical expertise across digital forensics, memory analysis, and reverse engineering.

Tooling & Process Modernization: Identify opportunities to optimize workflows, SIEM/EDR integration, and evidence chain-of-custody tracking to reduce mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to remediate (MTTR).

Qualifications

5 years with BS/BA; 3 years with MS/MA; ; 7 years with Associates; 9 years w/o BS/BA

Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility

Must possess DoW 8140 DCWF 531 Advanced CertificationDeep technical expertise in network/host-based incident triage, digital forensics integration, log correlation (SIEM/EDR), and attack path reconstruction aligned to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.Demonstrated experience coordinating incident response within DoD or U.S. Army enterprise architectures (NETCOM, ARCYBER, GCC, or DoD CSSP/CIRT environments).Thorough understanding of NIST SP 800-61 Rev. 3, DoD 8570 / 8140 requirements, and CSSP incident reporting timelines.

Target Salary Range

$80,000 - $128,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

Benefits Statement

Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.

Application Statements

The application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates. By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in the role and the Company. During the review of your application, you may be required to participate in an on-camera interview, as well as participate in a process to verify your identity. Use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools of any kind during Peraton interviews is strictly prohibited unless the candidate has obtained prior written authorization. All interview responses must be the candidate’s own.

EEO

EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.