Federal Cyber Incident Response Analyst

Accenture PLC; Leesburg (VA); On-site; USD 94,000 - 188,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Federal Services in Virginia is seeking an Incident Response Analyst to strengthen a federal agency's Cyber Incident Response Team. You will independently manage active investigations, using government-furnished tooling to identify root causes and produce documentation supporting security investigators.

You will typically own several concurrent cases, coordinating with system owners, forensics, and threat intelligence to bring each one to a clean, well-documented close.

Qualifications

• US Citizenship required; 3+ years of related experience; BS degree (or 4 years of additional experience)
• Minimum 1 year professional experience in network or UNIX/Linux system administration, software engineering, or software development, and/or a bachelor’s degree in a related field
• Minimum 3 years of professional experience responding to information system security incidents (Tier 1)

Responsibilities

• Respond to information system security incidents using government-furnished toolset to identify and determine root causes.
• Produce required documentation and possible evidence for authorized personnel with legal or investigative authorities.
• Support advanced analysis of data file system artifacts, memory, and network logs during active incidents.
• Assist in scoping and containing compromises across Windows, Linux, and cloud environments.
• Contribute to post-incident recommendations for improving the agency's security posture.
• Coordinate directly with system owners and ISSOs during containment and remediation activities.
• Support email trace, purge, and data spillage sanitization efforts per established procedures.
• Mentor junior CIRT analysts on evidence handling and case documentation standards.

Skills

Incident response

Information security

Root cause analysis

Documentation

Team coordination

Education

BS degree in a related field

4 years of additional experience

Unix/Linux familiarity

Tools

EDR platform

Forensics tooling

Govern­ment furnished toolset

Job description

Accenture Federal Services in Virginia is seeking an Incident Response Analyst to strengthen a federal agency's Cyber Incident Response Team. You will independently manage active investigations, using government-furnished tooling to identify root causes and produce documentation supporting security investigators.

You will typically own several concurrent cases, coordinating with system owners, forensics, and threat intelligence to bring each one to a clean, well-documented close.