Mid Cybersecurity Incident Analyst

ECS Corporate Services; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Top Secret clearance

US citizenship eligible

Job summary

Everforth ECS in Arlington, VA is seeking a Mid Cyber Incident Analyst to join our hybrid team on the JCDC mission. The role focuses on deep technical analysis during incidents, identifying vulnerabilities, adversarial tactics, and mitigation strategies across IT, OT/ICS, cloud, and AI systems.

You will work with CISA teams to define data sources, write detection rules, and support threat-hunting capabilities, contributing to effective incident response and threat mitigation for federal partners.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in threat intelligence, cybersecurity, incident response, or similar roles.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Strong understanding of computer and network fundamentals.
• Experience defining data sources and writing detection rules.

Responsibilities

• Perform analysis on active cyber incidents, events and vulnerabilities to provide guidance and targeted recommendations for mitigation.
• Support development of written guidance for JCDC partners on active vulnerabilities.
• Stay current with emerging cybersecurity technologies and trends to improve detection and mitigation.
• Provide insights into vulnerabilities, adversarial tactics, and mitigation strategies across IT, OT/ICS, cloud, and AI systems.
• Assist mapping cyber threats to MITRE ATT&CK and other frameworks.
• Translate strategic products into practical formats for diverse stakeholders including CI and SLTT partners.
• Tailor vulnerability mitigation recommendations and examples to address implementation challenges.

Skills

Threat intel

Incident response

Vulnerability analysis

Threat hunting

MITRE ATT&CK

Written comms

Analytical thinking

Job description

Everforth ECS is seeking a Mid Cybersecurity Incident Analyst to join our team in Arlington, VA (Hybrid) . This position is contingent upon contract award. Everforth ECS is seeking a Mid Cyber Incident Analyst for our growing team supporting the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's (CISA) Technical Engineering and Support Services (TESS) program. This is a hybrid role. TESS is CISA's integrated, capability-driven mission ecosystem designed to scale across mission and delivery spaces within the DHS/CISA/Cybersecurity Division (CSD). This role will directly support the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC) Operations. The JCDC is CISA's flagship initiative for uniting government, industry, and international partners to proactively defend against cyber threats. Our ECS team is at the center of providing support to JCDC as they continue to plan, share, and respond to cyber threats in real time to support the greater cyber community and we are looking to grow our team supporting this critical mission. The Mid. Cyber Incident Analyst provides deep technical analysis during active cyber incidents, including insights into vulnerabilities, adversarial tactics, and mitigation strategies across diverse environments like IT, OT/ICS, cloud, and AI systems. This position will support a team that interfaces extensively with multiple organizations within CISA including Vulnerability Management (VM) and Threat Hunt (TH) to provide guidance and analysis on active cyber threats for JCDC partners. This position will assist in defining critical data sources for collection, inform processes, write detection rules, and analyze active and emerging cyber threats and incidents from across Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB), Critical Infrastructure (CI) and State, Local, Tribal and Territorial (SLTT). The Mid. Cyber Incident Analyst will support a team that works closely with many stakeholders, including DHS CISA TH and VM, Agency security analysts/user groups, and the ECS team to ensure alignment between solution development and needs of stakeholders. The Analyst will perform research and assist with solutions for specific IOCs and IOAs. The Analyst will aid in defining tools, processes, and procedures for advancing Threat Hunting and Incident Response capabilities within CISA, FCEB, CI and SLTT.

Responsibilities:

• Perform analysis on active cyber incidents, events and vulnerabilities to provide guidance and targeted recommendations for mitigation
• Support the development of written guidance and recommendations to assist JCDC partners with solutions for active and ongoing cyber vulnerabilities
• Stay current with emerging technologies and trends in cybersecurity, and apply this knowledge to improve threat detection and mitigation efforts
• Through hands-on analysis provide insights into vulnerabilities, adversarial tactics, and mitigation strategies across diverse environments like IT, OT/ICS, cloud, and AI systems
• Assist with mapping technical insights on cyber threats to frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK and other cyber frameworks
• Support a team in the translation of strategic products into clear, practical formats that are tailored to the specific needs and operational constraints of different stakeholder groups, including large and small jurisdictions and critical infrastructure (CI) partners
• Assist in the tailoring of vulnerability mitigation recommendations and contextualized examples to stakeholders to address implementation challenges and encourage rapid adoption

Salary Range:

$140,000 - $160,000

General Description of Benefits

• Active Top Secret Clearance
• US Citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a minimum of DHS (Suitability) EOD/ Public Trust
• 6+ Years of previous experience in a threat intelligence, cyber security, incident response, or similar role
• Strong understanding of computer and network fundamentals
• Basic understanding of computer architecture, operating systems, vulnerabilities, encryption, or other areas of expertise
• Experience defining data sources and writing detection rules for discovering malicious behavior
• With minimum support perform in-depth research tasks and produce written summaries to include insights and predictions based on an analytical process
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• An understanding of current cyber threats/exploits, attack methodology, and detection techniques using a wide variety of security products including COTS and open source