Senior Incident Response Lead, 24x7 Federal SOC

Olympus Solutions Inc.; Lanham (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision

Paid time off

Career development

401(k) discretionary match

Referral bonuses

Job summary

Olympus Solutions, Inc. is seeking a Senior Incident Response Analyst to join the 24x7 Security Operations Center of a large federal civilian agency. The role involves determining incident scope, containment and recovery actions, and driving remediation with system owners and the government SOC team.

This position is primarily onsite in the Lanham, MD or Memphis, TN area, with telework as approved by the customer. Candidates must live within commuting distance and require U.S.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of relevant experience (3 years may substitute for degree).
• 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 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.

Skills

Incident response

SIEM/EDR

Cloud for IR

Forensic fundamentals

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

SIEM tools

EDR tools

Job description

Olympus Solutions, Inc. is seeking a Senior Incident Response Analyst to join the 24x7 Security Operations Center of a large federal civilian agency. The role involves determining incident scope, containment and recovery actions, and driving remediation with system owners and the government SOC team.

This position is primarily onsite in the Lanham, MD or Memphis, TN area, with telework as approved by the customer. Candidates must live within commuting distance and require U.S.