Cybersecurity Operations Specialist -SIEM Services (Evergreen)

General Dynamics Corporation; Springfield (VA); On-site; USD 128,000 - 173,000; Full time

Job summary

GDIT seeks a Cybersecurity Operations Specialist to design, operate, and refresh SIEM capabilities, focusing on ArcSight, ElasticSearch, and Kibana within Springfield, VA. The role integrates data analysis services, onboarding of resources, and secure event routing per ICS standards.

The job demands 6+ years of related experience, Top Secret/SCI clearance eligibility, and DoD 8570-M IAT II/CSSP certifications. Expect 40 hours weekly onsite with comprehensive total rewards.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of related experience required.
• Active TS/SCI Clearance required.
• DoD 8570.01-M IAT Level II and CSSP Infrastructure Support certifications preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide cybersecurity data analysis services across SIEM capabilities and related platforms.
• Maintain 99.99% system availability and perform scheduled maintenance.
• Detect and ticket degradations within 60 minutes of SIEM data flow issues.
• Configure assets per federal DoD/IC requirements and manage change control processes.
• Develop, test, and deploy updates for SIEM and related tools.
• Document actions using agency ticketing systems and monitor performance metrics.

Skills

Analytics

ArcSight SIEM

ElasticSearch

Kibana

Linux (RHEL)

SIEM experience

Education

DoD 8570.01-M IAT Level II

6+ years of related experience

Job description

Cybersecurity Operations Specialist -SIEM Services (Evergreen)

Responsibilities for this Position

Location: USA VA Springfield

Full Part/Time: Full time

Job Req: RQ223514

Type of Requisition: Pipeline

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: Top Secret/SCI

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Top Secret SCI + Polygraph

Public Trust/Other Required: None

Job Family: Cyber and IT Risk Management

Job Qualifications:

Skills: Analytics, ArcSight SIEM, ElasticSearch, Kibana

Certifications: None

Experience: 6 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required: Yes

GDIT is seeking a motivated, career and customer-oriented Cybersecurity Operations Specialist to perform on our Cybersecurity Data Analysis Services team in Springfield, VA.

The team member shall provide cybersecurity data analysis services, which designs, develops, builds, tests, configures, employs, operates, integrates, sustains, and refreshes the Security Information Events Management (SIEM) capability (i.e. Enterprise Audit), long-term analytics platform, log aggregation platform, and the cyber threat intelligence capability, signature development and deployment, and reputation management services. This includes the onboarding of all new and existing IT resources, and ensuring the correct routing of all audit events to mission partners in accordance with Intelligence Community Standards (ICS) 500-27.

Job Duties Include:

• Provide all preventative and corrective maintenance to ensure consistent, reliable, and secure service availability. This includes all actions required to return the service to full operational capability such as vendor RMA processes, removal and proper disposal of broken equipment/software, installation and testing of new equipment/software, and configuration of new equipment/software
• Maintain system availability and reliability with a threshold of 99.99%
• Detect and ticket degradations (volume/velocity) of all SIEM data flows within 60 minutes of the start of the degradation
• Perform day-to-day maintenance, and specific scheduled maintenance activities that result from manufacturers recommended service intervals, alerts, bulletins, available patches, and updates according to agency approved change management processes. This includes maintaining updated documentation, change logs, and service bulletin libraries for all supported equipment and software in the CSOC knowledge management platform
• Execute emergency maintenance actions with sufficient urgency to preclude unacceptable outage durations, approved by the Government prior to execution, and coordinated through and approved by CSOC and ESC government management
• Perform all development, engineering, testing, integration, and implementation actions necessary for major vendor revisions
• Perform continuous engineering assessments to improve the performance, effectiveness, coverage, and maturity of this service.
• Retain documentation regarding loss of event logs (e.g. June 5-7th DNS logs were not ingested from SBU and are lost)
• Configure all assets assigned to this service within the Government Furnished Information - Software Tools list in accordance with all Federal, DoD, IC, and NCE laws, directives, orders, polices, guidance, procedures etc.
• Perform all development, design, engineering, testing, integration, and implementation actions needed for the total integration and interoperability between all applicable assets in the Government Furnished Information - Software Tools list. This includes ensuing all data flows are properly parsed for ingestion/transmission to internal and external automated reporting systems (e.g. JFHQ DoDIN - Joint Incident Management System, DoD CIO - DoD Scorecard/Get to Green reporting, IC CIO - Cybersecurity Performance Evaluation Model reporting, etc.)
• Utilize agency approved ticketing systems to document, track, assign, update, and coordinate all engineering, integration, configuration, and maintenance actions
• Use various monitoring, analysis, and visualization tools to track effectiveness, status, performance metrics, and other information as needed or required by Government staff and contractors assigned Cybersecurity Operations Services and Cybersecurity Readiness Services

Required Skills:

• SIEM experience with one of the following ArcSight, ElasticSearch, Splunk, Event Broker, User Behavioral Analysis (UBA)
• Experience providing support to Cybersecurity Operations Cell (CSOC) in creating alerting rules
• Create SIEM playbooks
• Linux (RHEL) Expert (administration and engineering)
• Proficient in manipulating SIEM filters to better find and analyze potential malicious/atypical activity and reduce false positives
• Experience with content development within ArcSight and Kibana to facilitate Cyber Analysts ability to investigate malicious events
• Creation of ArcSight rules based on use cases of malicious events
• Tuning and aggregation of queries and filters
• Skilled in troubleshooting event flow through Enterprise Audit infrastructure
• Skilled in troubleshooting event format and parsing for ingest into data storage and into SIEM tools

• Active TS/SCI Clearance
• DoD 8570.01-M IAT Level II and CSSP Infrastructure Support certifications
• 6+ years Experience with SIEM and Development Projects
• 6+ years Experience with SIEM support for projects and technical exchange meetings
• 6+ years Experience developing and maintaining enterprise audit projects

Desired Skills:

• Kibana
• Data Analytics

The likely salary range for this position is $128,039 - $173,229. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Travel Required:

None

Telecommuting Options:

Onsite

Work Location:

USA VA Springfield

Total Rewards at GDIT: Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

Our Identity Verification Process: As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.

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