Senior SOC Business Analyst - TS/SCI | Remote Travel

Evans & Chambers; Herndon (VA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Evans & Chambers seeks a Senior SOC Business Analyst to lead requirements elicitation for a Security Operations Center. You will translate mission needs and compliance mandates into a traceable baseline for architects, engineers, and analysts across 24x7 monitoring, threat detection, and incident response.

The position requires an Active TS/SCI clearance, a strong federal/DoD background, and collaboration with program leadership and technical teams to ensure feasible, testable requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in information systems, cybersecurity, computer science, business, or a related field.
• 12+ years of business or systems analysis experience.
• 5+ years in federal, DoD, or Intelligence Community environments.
• CySA+, GCIA, GCIH, or CISSP required.

Responsibilities

• Bridges between the SOC Program Lead and the SOC Technical Architect to ensure traceability of requirements.
• Presents prioritized requirements and trade-offs to support scope, cost, and schedule decisions.
• Escalates unresolved stakeholder conflicts, requirement risks, and dependencies with recommended actions.
• Prepares requirements content for leadership briefings, governance boards, and acquisition documents.
• Collaborates with the SOC Technical Architect to reflect technical realities (classification, cross-domain, enterprise systems).
• Validates that each requirement is feasible, unambiguous, and testable before baselining.
• Assesses the impact of proposed design and requirement changes.
• Holds regular joint sessions to review requirements status and decisions.
• Identifies and maps stakeholders across mission owners, SOC operators, intelligence partners, IT, legal, privacy, and acquisition.
• Plans and facilitates interviews, workshops, and site visits to capture current and future state needs.
• Elicits requirements for core SOC functions: 24x7 monitoring, threat detection, incident response, threat intelligence, threat hunting, vulnerability management.
• Documents as‑is and to‑be SOC processes and run gap analysis.
• Writes business, functional, non‑functional, security, and interface requirements clearly.
• Develops CONOPS inputs, use cases, user stories, and SOC playbook requirements.
• Defines tooling requirements for SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR, NDR, log management, case management, and threat intelligence.

Education

Bachelor's degree in information systems

12+ years business or systems analysis

Tools

SIEM

SOAR

EDR/XDR

NDR

Case management

Job description

Evans & Chambers seeks a Senior SOC Business Analyst to lead requirements elicitation for a Security Operations Center. You will translate mission needs and compliance mandates into a traceable baseline for architects, engineers, and analysts across 24x7 monitoring, threat detection, and incident response.

The position requires an Active TS/SCI clearance, a strong federal/DoD background, and collaboration with program leadership and technical teams to ensure feasible, testable requirements.