Action Officer with Security Clearance

Nightwing; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 99,000 - 206,000; Full time

Job summary

Nightwing is seeking a Cyber Action Officer to support a U.S. Government client in Arlington, VA. You will lead incident response efforts, coordinate with stakeholders, and produce actionable briefings for leadership.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in cyber incident management, an active TS/SCI clearance, and experience with MITRE ATT&CK and security operations. The role requires strong communication and collaboration across teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of direct cyber incident management or cybersecurity operations.
• Active TS/SCI clearance and ability to obtain DHS Suitability.
• Strong knowledge of network security monitoring and incident response.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Create, consolidate, and maintain routine cyber incident reports in official systems.
• Coordinate with customers, partners, and stakeholders.
• Ingest, validate, and evaluate information to determine actions.
• Draft summaries and provide oral presentations for leadership.
• Maintain rosters and distribution lists; monitor tasks and tickets.
• Support tasks and projects to ensure timely resolutions.

Skills

Cyber incident mgmt

TS/SCI clearance

Incident response

Threat hunting

Communication skills

Education

BS in Cybersecurity/Inc Mgmt

Tools

MITRE ATT&CK

Job description

Nightwing provides technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operations, systems integration and intelligence mission support services to meet our customers' most demanding challenges. Our capabilities include cyber space operations, cyber defense and resiliency, vulnerability research, ubiquitous technical surveillance, data intelligence, lifecycle mission enablement, and software modernization. Nightwing brings disruptive technologies, agility, and competitive offerings to customers in the intelligence community, defense, civil, and commercial markets. Nightwing provides technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operations, systems integration and intelligence mission support services to meet our customers' most demanding challenges. Our capabilities include cyber space operations, cyber defense and resiliency, vulnerability research, ubiquitous technical surveillance, data intelligence, lifecycle mission enablement, and software modernization. Nightwing brings disruptive technologies, agility, and competitive offerings to customers in the intelligence community, defense, civil, and commercial markets. Nightwing is supporting a U.S. Government customer to provide support for onsite incident response to civilian Government agencies and critical asset owners who experience cyber-attacks, providing immediate investigation and resolution. Contract personnel perform investigations to characterize the severity of breaches, develop mitigation plans, and assist with the restoration of services. Nightwing is seeking a Cyber Action Officer to support this critical customer mission.

Responsibilities:

• Creating, consolidating and maintaining routine reporting of cyber incidents in official systems of record, to include case management systems and ticketing.
• Coordinating with internal and external customers, partners, and stakeholders.
• Ingesting, validating, and evaluating information to determine optimal courses of action, to include providing response support to requesting entities.
• Updating and tracking cases and tickets with accuracy, timeliness, reliability, and consistency.
• Drafting summaries of ongoing operations and providing oral presentations for various levels of leadership.
• Maintaining knowledge objects in system of record consistently and professionally.
• Threat and vulnerability management to recognize and categorize types of vulnerabilities, threat actors, and different operational threat environments, and associated attacks (MITRE ATT&CK framework).
• Maintaining team rosters and distribution lists (e.g., email, chat).
• Monitoring and consolidating new and existing tasks/requirements using customer online portals; properly routing and coordinating tasks across organization; consolidating inputs into a coherent response or deliverable.
• Facilitating, logging and actively supporting tasks and projects; completing staff-level work and coordination to facilitate successful resolution.
• Providing comprehensive meeting support for customer (e.g., coordinate, disseminate, deconflict, logistics).
• Monitoring and maintaining personnel roster for customer team, while collaborating, coordinating and informing customer of overall status of seating environment.
• Actively collaborate and coordinate with colleagues (e.g., AOs, customers, partners, and stakeholders) to consolidate feedback on customer services and products to promote continuous improvement of workflows, procedures, and repeatable processes.

Required Skills:

• U.S. Citizenship
• Must have an active TS/SCI clearance
• Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability
• 5+ years of directly relevant experience in cyber incident management or cybersecurity operations
• Knowledge of network security monitoring and/or security operations analysis, system administration, operating system hardening, cyber hygiene techniques, and cybersecurity defense policies, procedures, and regulations.
• Knowledge of incident response, threat hunting, and handling methodologies
• Ability to track multiple active engagements, personnel or equipment deployments, as well as coordinate with internal and external stakeholders.
• Knowledge of the NCCIC National Cyber Incident Scoring System to be able to prioritize triaging of incident.
• Knowledge of general attack stages (e.g., foot printing and scanning, enumeration, gaining access, escalation of privileges, maintaining access, network exploitation, covering tracks, etc.).
• Skill in recognizing threat actor campaigns, tactics, techniques, and procedures.
• Familiar with basic system and network administration, traffic analysis techniques, Computer Network Defense policies, procedures and regulations.
• Knowledge of different operational threat environments (e.g., first generation [script kiddies], second generation [non-nation-state sponsored], and third generation [nation-state sponsored]).
• Knowledge of system and application security threats and vulnerabilities (e.g., buffer overflow, mobile code, cross-site scripting, PL/SQL and injections, race conditions, covert channel, replay, return- oriented attacks, and malicious code)
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Desired Skills:

• Familiarity with different operational threat environments (e.g., first generation [script kiddies], second generation [non-nation-state sponsored], and third generation [nation-state sponsored])
• Familiarity with system and application security threats and attack methods (e.g., buffer overflow, mobile code, cross-site scripting, PL/SQL and injections, race conditions, covert channel, replay, return- oriented attacks, and malicious code)
• Working knowledge of Cyber threat intelligence (CTI) functions (e.g., contextualized analysis).
• CTI experience with respect to understanding and applying intelligence cycle doctrine to cyber intelligence planning.
• Familiarity with cybersecurity/CTI communications terminology, concepts, and subject matter.
• Experience with creating technical briefings, to include executive leadership briefings.
• Experience providing summaries to executive level leadership.

Required Education:

BS Incident Management, Operations Management, Cybersecurity or related degree. HS Diploma with 7-9 incident management or cyber security experience

Desired Certifications:

GCIH

Salary & Benefits:

The salary associated with this position ($99,000-$206,000) is commensurate with the selected candidate's qualifications, years of relevant experience, and demonstrated level of expertise. Compensation will be determined based on these factors to ensure alignment with skills, responsibilities, and market standards. Nightwing offers medical, vision and dental insurance coverage in addition to a 401k plan, PTO, Holidays, and additional insurances.

Equal Opportunity:

Nightwing is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.