Senior SOC Security- Shift 2 US Citizenship - 100% 4 days ONSITE - 1 day REMOTE

Visual Soft, Inc; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 55,000 - 83,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

3 weeks PTO

Floating holidays

Public holidays

Health insurance 50% covered for the 1

Dental insurance 50% covered for the 1

STD/LTD and life insurance

Job summary

Visual Soft, Inc. seeks a Senior SOC Analyst to aggressively monitor and respond to SIEM alerts and customer requests. The role emphasizes incident investigation, log analysis, and rapid action to safeguard U.S.

Courts systems, with six months duration and a 4 days onsite/1 day remote schedule. Required are 6+ years in a SOC environment, strong experience with Splunk, Snort, PCAP, and Wireshark, and citizenship in the United States.

Qualifications

• PRIOR or ONGOING SOC experience required.
• BS degree preferred; industry certifications encouraged (Security+/CySA+/CEH/CISSP/GCIH).
• SPLUNK SIEM queries hands-on experience highly desired.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and respond to alerts in the SIEM and assist customers.
• Investigate incidents and take action to safeguard systems.
• Read and interpret logs and network data to create a narrative of observed behavior.

Skills

SOC experience

Incident response

Communication skills

Education

BS degree preferred

Security+ or CySA+ or CEH or CISSP or GCIH

SPLUNK certifications desired

Tools

Splunk

Wireshark

Snort

PCAP

SIEM

Job description

• Washington, DC
• Information Technology

Visual Soft, Inc is seeking qualified candidates to work on our efforts with a Prime for their end customer, a federal agency.

Position: Senior SOC - Security Analyst - (4 days ONSITE and 1 day REMOTE at Present)

Duration: 6 months, seeking only w-2 resources without standard benefits or 1099 consultants

Location: Washington, DC, next to Union Station metro

Compensation: Based on certifications, education and experience, very competitive

Various Shifts available.SHIFT TIMINGS:

2nd SHIFT - M-F 3PM-11:30PM

Candidates Willing to work in any Shift 2 or any other shifts are highly desired

JOB DESCRIPTION:

The Senior SOC/ Analyst has the primary responsibility of aggressively monitoring and responding to alerts triggered in the SIEM tool or requests for assistance from customers. TheSenior SOC/Resource Management Analyst will use a variety of tools to investigate incidents and take immediate action or recommend a course of action to safeguard the U.S. Courts systems.

General Experience:

****PRIOR or ONGOING experience (6 yrs+) of working in a SOC environment is a MUST.****

Six (62)+ years of network intrusion detection experience. Contractor must have the following skills: The ability to investigate and evaluate network traffic, and the ability to read and interpret log and sniffer packets, Wireshark. The ability to analyze data from a variety of sources over time and create a logical narrative of observed behavior, and the ability to communicate clearly both orally and in writing.

Specialized Experience:

Candidate will have at six (6)+ years experience performing intrusion detection analyticsworking with the examination of logs and console events in the following working experience areas of; Splunk, examining Snort based IDS events, PCAP, web server log review, and working in a SIEM environment.**SPLUNK SIEM advanced queries HANDS-ON experience highly desired.

Years of Experience: 6+ years

Education Requirement: BS degree preferred, industry certifications are desired such as Security+ or CySA+ or CEH or CISSP or GCIH and other industry recognized certs. SPLUNK certifications are highly desired but NOT required

Clearance requirement: U.S. Citizenship is required.

Standard Benefits:

• Our standard benefits include: Our standard benefits include 3 weeks of Paid time off (PTO that includes sick leave).
• Any unused PTO will be issued as a check at the end of an employee's anniversary with us.
• we also provide 2 floating and 8 public holidays.
• Floating and holidays expire at the end of every year of service of an employee.
• In addition, company will cover 50% of health and dental insurances only for all full time employees, however, dependents can be added at extra cost.
• Employee's health and dental coverage becomes effective after 30 days or first of the month after an employee completes initial 30 working days, we cover 50% for the employee's health and dental insurances.
• Dependents coverage for health and dental insurances is available as an out of pocket expense for employees.
• An employee has to finish all of your paper work for health and dental in the first 30 days of your employment with us.
• We provide STD, LTD and one time salary equivalent of life insurance at NO cost to all full time employees.
• All full time employees or w-2 employees with no benefits will be eligible to participate in company's 401k program after 90 days of employment with a company match of 4%, immediate vesting.
• In addition, all w-2 employees are eligible to be part of company's profit sharing, no employee contributions required.