Senior CIRT Tier 2 Analyst – On-Site Beltsville

Peraton; Beltsville (MD); On-site; USD 80,000 - 128,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking an experienced CIRT Tier 2 Analyst to join the Federal Strategic Cyber Mission program in Beltsville, MD on-site. The role supports 06:00–14:00 EST, Sunday through Thursday, in a 24x7 environment to detect, analyze, and respond to cyber threats.

Responsibilities include event analysis, log review across multiple sources, malware analysis, collaboration with DoS teams, and reporting to CISA. Required:

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 2 years of experience; an additional 4 years of experience may substitute for the degree requirement.
• Must hold or obtain one of the listed certifications prior to start (CCNA-Security, CND, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, SSCP)
• Demonstrated experience in the Incident Response lifecycle.
• Knowledge of SOAR ticketing and automated response systems (e.g. ServiceNow, Splunk SOAR, Microsoft Sentinel).
• Demonstrated experience with SIEM platforms (e.g. Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Elastic, QRadar).
• Demonstrated experience with Endpoint Detection and Response systems (e.g. MDE, ElasticXDR, CarbonBlack, CrowdStrike).
• Knowledge of cloud security monitoring and incident response.
• Knowledge of integrating IOCs and Advanced Persistent Threat actors.
• Ability to analyze cyber threat intelligence reporting and attacker methodologies/techniques.
• Knowledge of malware analysis techniques.
• Knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK and D3FEND frameworks.
• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Active Secret security clearance required to start.
• Preferred: Proficiency with Splunk, Azure AD, Defender for Endpoint, Autopsy, MagnetForensics, KAPE, CyLR, and Volatility.
• Security certifications such as: Security+, CySA+, Cloud+, CCSP, GSEC, etc.
• Advanced certifications such as SecurityX/CASP+, PRMP, GREM, GEIR, GNFA, GCFA

Responsibilities

• Detect, classify, process, track, and report on cyber security events and incidents.
• Perform advanced in-depth analysis of coordinated Tier 1 alert triage in a 24x7x365 environment.
• Analyze logs from multiple sources to identify, contain, and remediate suspicious activity.
• Characterize and analyze network traffic to identify anomalous activity and threats.
• Protect against cyber security threats and vulnerabilities.
• Perform forensic analysis of hosts, network traffic, and email content.
• Analyze malicious scripts and code to mitigate threats.
• Conduct malware analysis to generate IOCs.
• Collaborate with Department of State teams to respond to events/incidents.
• Monitor and respond to the CIRT SOAR platform, hotline, and inboxes.
• Create tickets and initiate workflows per SOPs.
• Coordinate and report incident information to CISA.
• Collaborate with local, national and international CIRTs as directed.
• Submit alert tuning requests.

Skills

Incident response

SIEM

SOAR

Threat intelligence

Malware analysis

Cloud security

Security clearance

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Splunk

Microsoft Sentinel

Elastic

QRadar

MDE

CrowdStrike

Carbon Black

ServiceNow SOAR

KAPE

Volatility

Job description

Peraton is seeking an experienced CIRT Tier 2 Analyst to join the Federal Strategic Cyber Mission program in Beltsville, MD on-site. The role supports 06:00–14:00 EST, Sunday through Thursday, in a 24x7 environment to detect, analyze, and respond to cyber threats.

Responsibilities include event analysis, log review across multiple sources, malware analysis, collaboration with DoS teams, and reporting to CISA. Required: