Senior Incident Response Analyst — Federal SOC Onsite

Olympus Solutions Inc.; Memphis (TN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision

Work-Life Balance

Career Development

Financial Security

Referral Bonuses

Job summary

Olympus Solutions, Inc. is seeking a Senior Incident Response Analyst to join the 24x7 Security Operations Center supporting a large federal civilian agency. Primarily onsite in Lanham, MD or Memphis, TN, with telework as approved; candidates must live within commuting distance.

The role involves analyzing incidents, correlating logs, and driving containment and recovery with system owners and the government SOC team. U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain federal clearance are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of relevant experience; three additional years may substitute.
• Extensive incident response experience in large enterprise environments.
• Investigation using SIEM and EDR tools, plus Windows, Linux, and network forensic fundamentals.
• Incident response in cloud environments (AWS, Azure/Microsoft 365).
• U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain a federal suitability determination.

Responsibilities

• Analyze suspected incidents to determine scope, severity, likely cause, affected assets, indicators of compromise, and timeline.
• Correlate logs, alerts, forensic artifacts, and threat intelligence across on-premises and cloud environments.
• Support forensic artifact review and malware triage when incidents call for it.
• Document findings, confidence levels, supporting evidence, and recommended actions in incident analysis reports.
• Recommend and support containment, eradication, and recovery actions with system owners, other contractors, and government stakeholders.
• Mentor analysts and feed lessons learned back into monitoring, triage, and escalation procedures.
• Take part in continuity of operations exercises and the on-call rotation.

Skills

Incident response

Forensic analysis

SIEM & EDR usage

Windows fundamentals

Education

Bachelor's degree + 10+ years experience

Active Secret or Top Secret clearance preferred

Tools

SIEM

EDR

Cloud security (AWS/Azure/M365)

Job description

Olympus Solutions, Inc. is seeking a Senior Incident Response Analyst to join the 24x7 Security Operations Center supporting a large federal civilian agency. Primarily onsite in Lanham, MD or Memphis, TN, with telework as approved; candidates must live within commuting distance.

The role involves analyzing incidents, correlating logs, and driving containment and recovery with system owners and the government SOC team. U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain federal clearance are required.