Federal Cyber Incident Triage & Response Analyst

Accenture Federal Services; United States; Remote; USD 57,000 - 109,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Federal Services is seeking a Cybersecurity Incident Response Junior Analyst to monitor and triage alerts from SIEM and security sensors. You will work in the CIRT team under the CISO organization, qualifying events and coordinating with incident response teams to resolve incidents.

Required is 1–2 years in information security, SIEM experience, and strong communication. Familiarity with Windows/Linux, TCP/IP, and malware concepts is expected.

Qualifications

• US Citizenship required.
• 1-2 years of information security experience.
• 1 year event and log analysis with common security tools.
• Experience with SIEM solutions.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Familiarity with network and host security tools and protocols.
• Familiarity with TCP/IP and packet analysis.
• Familiarity with malware analysis concepts.
• Experience with indicators of attack.
• Familiarity with Windows and Linux architecture and endpoint analysis.
• Familiarity with data parsing/analysis tools (Excel, grep, sed, awk, regex).

Responsibilities

• Actively monitor and respond to cybersecurity incidents related to alerted policy violations.
• Analyze and investigate incidents to determine their nature and scope.
• Coordinate with the lead and other Cybersecurity Incident Response Teams for effective incident resolution.
• Document incidents and response activities in detail.
• Stay updated with the latest cybersecurity threats and trends.
• Assist in developing and refining incident response strategies and procedures.
• Collaborate with operations teams, legal, human resources and management to investigate security issues and interview investigation subjects to determine true and false positives.

Skills

Event and log analysis

SIEM experience

Incident response lifecycle

Cybersecurity threat knowledge

Excellent communication

Windows/Linux familiarity

Networking fundamentals

Malware analysis concepts

Data parsing (Excel, grep, sed, awk, r

Cross-team collaboration

US Citizenship required

Tools

SIEM

Anti-Virus

Firewalls

Active Directory

Web Proxies

DLP tools

Job description

Accenture Federal Services is seeking a Cybersecurity Incident Response Junior Analyst to monitor and triage alerts from SIEM and security sensors. You will work in the CIRT team under the CISO organization, qualifying events and coordinating with incident response teams to resolve incidents.

Required is 1–2 years in information security, SIEM experience, and strong communication. Familiarity with Windows/Linux, TCP/IP, and malware concepts is expected.