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Job description:

**** W2 or 1099 Only - No c2c *** F2F Interview - reasonable expenses will be paid for F2F Interview ***This position requires shift work, and the capacity to be on-call after hours and in support of emergency and special event operations. Background checks including FBI fingerprinting may be required

Monitoring, detecting, analyzing, remediating, and reporting on Cyber events and incidents impacting the tech infrastructure. 

The SOC Analyst - (Tier 2 or Tier 3)  is cybersecurity technical resource responsible for providing logical technical analysis, support, and guidance over to a team of Tier 2 and 1 SOC Analysts to monitor, detect, analyze, remediate, and report on cybersecurity events and incidents impacting the technology infrastructure  The ideal candidate will have an advanced technical background with significant experience in an enterprise successfully leading a SOC team or unit or area of responsibility for analysis and correlation of cybersecurity event, log, and alert data. The candidate will be skilled in understanding, recognition, and root-cause detection of cybersecurity exploits, vulnerabilities, and intrusions in host and network-based systems.

SPECIFIC TASKS

• Utilize advanced technical background and experience in information technology and incident response handling to scrutinize and provide corrective analysis to escalated cybersecurity events from Tier 1 and 2 SOC Analysts—distinguishing these events from benign activities, and escalating confirmed incidents to the Incident Response Lead Tier 3 Analysts and/or SIEM Engineer.
• Provide in-depth cybersecurity analysis, and trending/correlation of large data-sets such as logs, event data, and alerts from diverse network devices and applications within the enterprise to identify and troubleshoot specific cybersecurity incidents, and make sound technical recommendations that enable expeditious remediation.
• Proactively search through log, network, and system data to find and identify undetected threats.
• Support security tool/application tuning engagements, using McAfee ESM and McAfee ePO, with analysts and engineers to develop/adjust rules and analyze/develop related response procedures, and reduce false-positives from alerting.
• Identify and ingest indicators of compromise and attack (IOC’s/IOA's) (e.g., malicious IPs/URLs, etc.) into network security tools/applications to protect the Government of the District of Columbia network.
• Quality-proof technical advisories and assessments prior to release from the SOC.
• Coordinate with and provide in-depth technical support to enterprise-wide technicians and staff to resolve confirmed incidents.
• Report common and repeat problems, observed via trend analysis, to SOC management and Tier 3 SOC Analysts and propose process and technical improvements to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of alert notification and incident handling.
• Formulate andSupport development of technical best-practice SOPs and Runbooks for SOC Analysts.
• Respond to inbound requests via phone and other electronic means for technical assistance, and resolve problems independently with minimal supervision. Coordinate escalations with Tier 3 SOC Analysts and collaborate with internal technology teams to ensure timely resolution of issues.
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MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• 6+  years experience
• 5 years Hands-On Operational Experience As A Cybersecurity Analyst/Engineer In A Security Operations Center
• Prior Work With Cybersecurity Attack Countermeasures For Adversarial Activities Such As Malicious Code and DDOS
• In-Depth Hands-On Experience Analyzing And Responding To Security Events And Incidents With A Security Information And Event Management System
• Strong knowledge of cybersecurity attack methodology to include tactics and techniques, and associated countermeasures.
• Strong Knowledge Of Tcp/Ip Protocols, Services, Networking, And Experience Identifying, Analyzing, Containing, And Eradicating Cybersecurity Threat
• 6+ yrs developing, maintaining, and recommending enhancements to IS policies/requirements
• 6+ yrs performing vulnerability/risk analyses of computer systems/apps
• 6+ yrs identifying, reporting, and resolving security violations
• demonstrated operational experience as a cybersecurity analyst/engineer handling cybersecurity incidents and response in critical environments, and/or equivalent knowledge in areas such as; technical incident handling and analysis, intrusion detection, network and hos log analysis, penetration testing, and vulnerability management.
• In-depth understanding of current cybersecurity threats, attacks and countermeasures for adversarial activities such as probing and scanning, phishing, ransomware, command and control (C2) activity, distributed denial of service (DDoS), etc. 
• In-depth hands-on experience analyzing and responding to security events and incidents with most of the following technologies and/or techniques; leading security information and event management (SIEM) technologies, endpoint detection and response (EDR), intrusion detection/prevention systems (IDS/IPS), network- and host-based firewalls, network access control (NAC), data leak protection (DLP), database activity monitoring (DAM), web and email content filtering, vulnerability scanning tools, secure coding, etc.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, organizational, oral, and customer service skills. 
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP protocols, services, and networking.
• Knowledge of forensic analysis techniques for common operating systems.
• Adept at proactive search, solicitation, and detailed technical analysis of threat intelligence (e.g., exploits, IOCs/IOAs, hacking tools, vulnerabilities, threat actor TTPs) derived from open-source resources and external entities, to identify cybersecurity threats and derive countermeasures, not previously ingested into network security tools/applications, to apply to protect the Government of the District of Columbia network.
• Good ability to multi-task, prioritize, and manage time and tasks effectively.
• Good ability to work effectively in stressful situations.
• Strong attention to detail.

PREFERRED EDUCATION/CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS 

• Undergraduate degree in computer science, information technology, or related field.
• SANS GCIA, GCIH, GCED, GPEN, or similar industry certification desired.

Contact the recruiter working on this position:

The recruiter working on this position is Rajendra Reddy
His/her contact number is +(1) (202) 4706751
His/her contact email is rajr@msysinc.com

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