Defensive Cyber Ops Analyst - Night Shifts | TS/SCI

Quantum Sky; Colorado Springs (CO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Quantum Sky in Colorado Springs is seeking a temporary Defensive Cyber Analyst to support the USSF D6 contract with continuous cybersecurity monitoring, intrusion detection, and incident response.

Responsibilities include analyzing cyber incidents, tuning existing tools, monitoring DCO tools, and contributing to DCO TTPs and SOPs. Applicants should have DoD CSSP certification and a relevant IT degree or military cyber training.

Qualifications

• Active DoD CSSP certification (Analyst or Incident Responder) required.
• B.S. in IT/Cybersecurity or related military IT training.
• 1–3 years of cybersecurity/IT experience for continuous monitoring and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Analyze cyber incidents and correlate details to guide responses.
• Recommend tuning and new tool capabilities to improve coverage.
• Monitor government-provided DCO tools and systems.
• Document after-action steps to capture mitigation actions.
• Develop DCO TTPs and SOPs for operations and training.
• Identify security discrepancies and report incidents in a timely manner.

Skills

CSSP Analyst

Incident Responder

Cybersecurity Monitoring

Intrusion Detection

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/Cybersecurity

Tools

Elastic Stack

Kibana

Suricata

Splunk

Snort

Wireshark

Bro/Zeek

tcpdump

editcap

ACAS

Office 365

Python scripting

Bash scripting

Job description

Quantum Sky in Colorado Springs is seeking a temporary Defensive Cyber Analyst to support the USSF D6 contract with continuous cybersecurity monitoring, intrusion detection, and incident response.

Responsibilities include analyzing cyber incidents, tuning existing tools, monitoring DCO tools, and contributing to DCO TTPs and SOPs. Applicants should have DoD CSSP certification and a relevant IT degree or military cyber training.