TS/SCI Cyber Defense Analyst: Incident Response

Nightwing; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 77,000 - 163,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

401k

PTO

Job summary

Nightwing is seeking a Cyber Network Defense Analyst to support a critical U.S. Government customer in Arlington, VA. The role focuses on monitoring, analyzing, and responding to cyber threats, coordinating with enterprise defense teams, and developing signatures and incident response plans.

Required qualifications include U.S. citizenship and an active TS/SCI clearance. The position demands 5+ years of cyber defense experience and proficiency with tools like Snort and SiLK, with opportunities

Qualifications

• 5+ years of direct relevant experience in cyber defense analysis using leading edge technologies and industry standard cyber defense tools
• Experience successfully developing and deploying signatures
• Experience detecting host and network-based intrusions via intrusion detection technologies (e.g., Snort)
• Experience implementing incident handling methodologies
• Experience implementing protocol analyzers
• Experience collecting data from a variety of cyber defense resources
• Experience reading and interpreting signatures (e.g. snort)
• Experience performing packet-level analysis
• Python programming experience
• Strong math and science background

Responsibilities

• Characterize and analyze network traffic to identify anomalous activity and potential threats to network resources
• Coordinate with enterprise-wide cyber defense staff to validate network alerts
• Document and elevate incidents (including event's history, status, and potential impact for further action) that may cause ongoing and immediate impact to the environment
• Perform cyber defense trend analysis and reporting
• Perform event correlation using information gathered from a variety of sources within the enterprise to gain situational awareness and determine the effectiveness of an observed attack
• Provide daily summary reports of network events and activity relevant to cyber defense practices
• Receive and analyze network alerts from various sources within the enterprise and determine possible causes of alerts
• Provide timely detection, identification, and alerting of possible attacks/intrusions, anomalous activities, and misuse activities and distinguish these incidents and events from benign activities
• Use cyber defense tools for continual monitoring and analysis of system activity to identify malicious activity
• Analyze identified malicious activity to determine weaknesses exploited, exploitation methods, effects on system and information
• Identify and analyze anomalies in network traffic using metadata
• Validate intrusion detection system (IDS) alerts against network traffic using packet analysis tools
• Identify applications and operating systems of a network device based on network traffic
• Reconstruct a malicious attack or activity based off network traffic
• Identify network mapping and operating system (OS) fingerprinting activities
• Assist in the construction of signatures which can be implemented on cyber defense network tools in response to new or observed threats within the network environment or enclave

Skills

Python programming

Math and science background

Network investigations

Education

BS Computer Science, Cyber Security, Computer Engineering, Or Related Degree

HS Diploma & 7+ Years Of Network Investigations Experience

Tools

Snort

Carnegie Mellon SiLK tool suite

Job description

Nightwing is seeking a Cyber Network Defense Analyst to support a critical U.S. Government customer in Arlington, VA. The role focuses on monitoring, analyzing, and responding to cyber threats, coordinating with enterprise defense teams, and developing signatures and incident response plans.

Required qualifications include U.S. citizenship and an active TS/SCI clearance. The position demands 5+ years of cyber defense experience and proficiency with tools like Snort and SiLK, with opportunities