Computer Security Incident Report Analyst with TS/SCI Clearance [Salesforce National Security]

Salesforce; Virginia (MN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce in Northern Virginia seeks an on-site Computer Security Incident Response Analyst to join the SNS Infrastructure Security Team. You will respond to cyber security events in SNS Cloud environments, document incidents in ticketing systems, and analyze SIEM logs to detect threats.

The role requires U.S. citizenship and an active Top Secret/SCI clearance with Polygraph. Some on-call and occasional travel may be required.

Qualifications

• U.S. citizen with active Top Secret/SCI clearance with Polygraph.
• Related technical degree or equivalent work experience.
• 2+ years in cybersecurity, engineering, or incident response.

Responsibilities

• Respond to and investigate cyber security events in SNS Cloud environments.
• Track, document, and escalate security incidents in a ticketing system.
• Analyze log data from SIEM for signs of malicious activity.
• Coordinate with multi-disciplinary teams to resolve high-priority issues.

Skills

U.S. citizen

Top Secret/SCI clearance

Incident response experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Cybersecurity

Tools

Splunk

AWS Cloud

Azure Sentinel

ElasticStack

Job description

Job Category

Software Engineering

Job Details

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Computer Security Incident Response Analyst

This is a customer-facing role and will require you to be on-site in Northern Virginia. This is NOT a remote position.

Salesforce - the leader in enterprise cloud computing and one of the top 10 places to work according to Fortune magazine - is seeking an Incident Response Analyst for our Government Cloud Security Operations team.

As part of the Salesforce National Security (SNS) Infrastructure Security Team, the Incident Response Analyst will work on the 'front lines' of Salesforce environments supporting US Government agencies and departments performing national security functions. The Infrastructure Security Team, protects our critical infrastructure and our customers' data from the latest information security threats. The team is responsible for 24x7x365 security monitoring, security operations, real-time analysis of security alert data, and rapid incident response across SNS Cloud environments.

PLEASE NOTE: Qualification for this job is contingent upon acceptable results from a background investigation as well as your having and maintaining the specific level of U.S. government background investigation and clearance required for this role.

Role Description

The Incident Response Analyst will respond to and investigate cyber security events within the SNS Cloud environments, track and document security events and incidents in a ticketing system, and analyze log data for signs of malicious activity in a Security Information and Event Manager (SIEM).

The Analyst will need to work across multi-disciplined teams to coordinate incident response actions for high-priority, high-transparency operations security issues to drive toward a resolution while meeting required service-level agreements, escalating as appropriate, and providing regular updates to senior leaders.

This position offers a challenging opportunity to be exposed to a diverse set of security disciplines, including incident response, forensics, reverse engineering, malware analysis, intrusion detection, network security, and system security.

This position provides opportunities to automate workflows and processes, develop new analytics and apply mitigations for adversary Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs), and hunt for undetected indicators of compromise.

This position may require you to provide periods of 24x7 on-call support on an as-needed basis.

As we work with Government customers, this position may require occasional local travel to customer sites.

Minimum Qualifications

• The candidate must be a U.S. citizen and must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret/SCI security clearance with Polygraph.


• A related technical degree, such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Cybersecurity, Information Assurance, or equivalent work experience.


• 2+ years experience in cybersecurity, engineering, and/or incident response roles.


• Strong interpersonal and communication skills required for coordinating responses to sophisticated incidents across the organization with many non technical and technical stakeholders.


• Strong problem solving ability to determine solutions to encountered or anticipated challenges.


• Strong technical understanding of the information security threat landscape (attack vectors and tools, best practices for securing systems and networks, etc.).


• Experience with AWSCloud, Splunk, Azure Sentinel, or ElasticStack, etc. preferred.

Desired Skills

• Technical understanding of the information security threat landscape, to include attack vectors, tools, best practices for securing systems and networks, etc.


• Technical understanding of TCP