Senior TS/SCI Cyber Defense Analytics Engineer

D2 Technical Services; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health/Dental/Vision

401(k) match

Accrued PTO

STD/LTD/Life Insurance

Referral Bonuses

Professional development reimbursement

Job summary

D2 Technical Services is seeking a highly experienced cybersecurity analyst with an active TS/SCI clearance to join the Defensive Cyber Operations team in the United States.

You will develop and maintain defensive countermeasures, tune SIEM detections, and coordinate with Purple Teaming exercises to prevent and eradicate adversaries across NGA networks.

The role emphasizes collaboration, documentation in ticketing systems, and regular briefings with stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Must be a US citizen with an Active TS/SCI.
• 8+ years of related advanced cyber security analytics work experience.
• Must have a DoD 8140/8570 IAT Level III CSSP Analyst certification.
• Experience with data mining or building queries in a SIEM.
• Strong understanding of signature development and tuning.
• Strong understanding of network protocols and analysis with protocol analyzers.

Responsibilities

• Analyze trends in NGA network data to identify incidents and develop or tune rules/signatures/scripts.
• Coordinate with Defensive Cyber Operations to tune rules/signatures/scripts.
• Investigate potential sources of compromise with Cyber Operations Services and tune detections.
• Correlate precursors to incidents and develop or tune detections as needed.
• Assist SIEM alert optimization by evaluating valid alerts and false positives.
• Work with Incident Response to assess ongoing activity and assist triage.
• Document work in the ticketing system with detailed reconstructions for stakeholders.
• Provide input to recurring meetings and briefings.

Skills

Cyber analytics

SIEM querying

Regex knowledge

Network analysis

Python scripting

PowerShell scripting

Bash scripting

US Citizenship

IAT III CSSP

Education

DoD 8140/8570 IAT III CSSP

Tools

SIEM tooling

Job description

D2 Technical Services is seeking a highly experienced cybersecurity analyst with an active TS/SCI clearance to join the Defensive Cyber Operations team in the United States.

You will develop and maintain defensive countermeasures, tune SIEM detections, and coordinate with Purple Teaming exercises to prevent and eradicate adversaries across NGA networks.

The role emphasizes collaboration, documentation in ticketing systems, and regular briefings with stakeholders.