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Cybersecurity Operations Center Analyst

Cybersecurity Operations Center Analyst

CompanyBooz Allen
LocationFort Belvoir, VA, USA
Salary$99000 – $225000
TypeFull-Time
DegreesBachelor’s
Experience LevelMid Level, Senior

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience working in a Security Operations Center at a classified level within the DoD
  • Experience providing continuous monitoring security expertise to business units and key stakeholders
  • Experience performing extensive analysis to validate established security requirements and recommend additional security requirements and safeguards
  • Experience working with cybersecurity staff to evolve the Security Operations continuous monitoring toolsets and reporting to provide better vulnerability insight
  • Ability to serve as subject matter expert on vulnerabilities, including system and application settings, and work alongside other security analysts in event handling and incident response
  • Ability to perform as a focal point for incident response and be responsible for communicating with other stakeholders
  • Active TS/SCI clearance; willingness to take a polygraph exam
  • Bachelor’s degree
  • CSSP Certification, including CEH, CFR, CCNA Cyber Ops, CCNA-Security, CySA+, GCIA, GCIH, GICSP, Cloud+, SCYBER, or PenTest+ Certification

Responsibilities

  • Improve tier monitoring strategies and analyze threats, using state-of-the-art tools and platforms
  • Work with the team to comprehend, mitigate, and respond to threats quickly, restoring operations and limiting the impact
  • Manage efforts to figure out just how many systems are affected and assist recovery efforts
  • Combine threat intelligence, event data, and assessments of events to identify patterns to understand attackers’ goals to stop them from succeeding
  • Lead a team of professionals as they use cyberspace capabilities to evaluate potential weaknesses as well as the effectiveness of mitigations for cybersecurity solutions
  • Leverage cyberspace operations systems to aggregate threat feeds that inform briefings for senior leadership aligned to our Army client

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience using Elastic for monitoring and analysis
  • Experience using endpoint tools to successfully hunt for adversarial behavior
  • Knowledge of Splunk and creating Splunk content, including alerts and dashboards
  • Ability to conduct threat hunting using network and host-based information
  • TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph
  • Splunk, Tanium, or TYCHON Certification
  • 8570 CSSP Analyst or Incident Responder Certification