Cyber Threat Analyst: Incident Hunter & Detection Architect

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory; Laurel (MD); On-site; USD 100,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Education assistance

Robust retirement contributions

Healthy work/life balance

Job summary

A leading research lab in Maryland is seeking a Cyber Threat Analyst to support the Defensive Cyber Operations team in identifying and investigating sophisticated cyber threats. Ideal candidates should possess a Bachelor's degree and 3-5 years of relevant experience, including anomaly detection and incident response. The role requires flexibility for on-call shifts and holds a current Secret clearance or the ability to obtain one. Generous benefits include education assistance and robust retirement contributions.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of real-world cyber and/or data science experience.
• Flexibility for on-call shifts and incident response.
• Current Secret clearance or ability to acquire one.

Responsibilities

• Correlate log sources and security tool data to hunt for APT activity.
• Build detection and prevention controls based on threat reporting.
• Investigate incidents through analysis of logs and network traffic.
• Support detection and capability refinement efforts.

Skills

Anomaly detection

Scripting languages (Python, PowerShell, SQL)

Incident investigation

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Information Security or related field

Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

EDRs

SIEM/SOAR toolsets

Malware analysis sandboxes

Job description

A leading research lab in Maryland is seeking a Cyber Threat Analyst to support the Defensive Cyber Operations team in identifying and investigating sophisticated cyber threats. Ideal candidates should possess a Bachelor's degree and 3-5 years of relevant experience, including anomaly detection and incident response. The role requires flexibility for on-call shifts and holds a current Secret clearance or the ability to obtain one. Generous benefits include education assistance and robust retirement contributions.