Cyber Security Operations Specialist – CSOC Tier 3

Cyber Security Operations Specialist – CSOC Tier 3

Requirements

• TS/SCI clearance with ability to obtain a CI Poly
• Bachelor’s degree
• 6 years experience in Cyber Security (CSOS)
• DoDD 8140.01 and DoD 8570.01-M IAT Level II certification
• CSSP Incident Responder certification

Responsibilities

• Coordinates and implements tasks, performs analysis, and builds/documents response activities required during cyber security incident response, including but not limited to actions such as implementing containment measures, IP blocks, domain blocks, and disabling user accounts on the direction of the Government.
• Coordinates with Security and Installations Directorate (SI) Office of Counterintelligence (SIC), Insider Threat Office (SIII), in addition to other law enforcement and counterintelligence personnel as required to perform advanced investigation and triage of incidents.
• Collaborates with appropriate authorities in the production of security incident reports.
• Categorizes incidents and events.
• Coordinates with other contracts, organizations, activities, and other services as appropriate to ensure incidents are properly reported, contained, and eradicated.
• Coordinates with other contracts, organizations, activities, and other services as appropriate to de-conflict blue/red team activity with open incidents/events.
• Coordinates with other contracts, organizations, activities, and services to ensure NGA recovers from an incident/event.
• Builds timelines, documents, briefings, and other products as required to inform stakeholders of incident response actions, analysis, and the impact of both adversary activity and blue force response actions.
• Documents actions taken and analysis in the authorized ticketing system to a level of detail where the actions taken and analysis are capable of being systematically reconstructed.
• Develops and when approved by the Government generates and updates reports in the Joint Incident Management System (JIMS), Incident Case Management System (ICMS), and/or other authorized reporting systems as directed.
• Develops, maintains, sustains, and when properly authorized by the Government executes custom scripts, tools, and capabilities to collect and analyze data, and respond to incidents/events.
• Performs digital media analysis on host, server, and network data as required to analyze and respond to an incident, including but not limited to volatile and non-volatile memory and/or system artifact collection and analysis.
• Develops and identifies indicators of compromise to send to Cybersecurity stakeholders and other Contract Services.
• Provides adversary attribution.
• Performs malware analysis and signature development.
• Coordinates with CSOC Tier 1 and 2 services to remediate all discrepancies and provide recommendations to prevent reoccurrence.

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters degree
• IAT III