Cyber Defense Analyst 3

The Swift Group is a privately held, mission-driven and employee-focused services and solutions company headquartered in Reston, VA. Our capabilities include Software Development, Engineering & IT, Data Science, Cyber Enablement, Logistics, and Training. Founded in 2019, Swift supports Civilian, Defense, and Intelligence Community customers across the country and around the globe.

We are looking for a Cyber Defense Analyst 3 to join a growing team in Annapolis Junction, MD.

Responsibilities:

• Use cyber defense tools to monitor, detect, analyze, categorize, and perform initial triage of anomalous activity.
• Generate cybersecurity cases (including event's history, status, and potential impact for further action) and route as appropriate.
• Perform advanced manual analysis to hunt previously unidentified threats.
• Identify cyber-attack phases based on knowledge of common attack vectors and network layers, models and protocols.
• Apply techniques for detecting host- and network-based intrusions.
• Analyze malicious activity to determine weaknesses exploited, exploitation methods, effects on system and information.
• 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.
• Possess deep knowledge of active directory abuse used by attackers for lateral movement and persistence.
• Perform after-action reviews of team products to ensure completion of analysis.
• Lead and mentor team members as a technical expert.

Requirements:

• Eight (8) years of demonstrated experience as a CDA in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity.
• A technical bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university may be substituted for two (2) years of CDA experience.
• Two (2) years of demonstrated and practical experience in TCP/IP fundamentals.
• Two (2) years of demonstrated experience with tcpdump or Wireshark.
• Three (3) years of demonstrated experience using security information and event management suites (such as Splunk, ArcSight, Kibana, LogRhythm).
• Three (3) years of demonstrated experience in network analysis and threat analysis software utilization.
• CSSP Analyst baseline certification (e.g., CEH, CySA+, CFR, etc.)
• IAT Level I or II certification
• Computing Environment (CE) certification for supported systems
• Global Information Assurances Certificate (GIAC) OR Global Certified Incident Handler (GCIH)
• US citizenship and an active TS/SCI with Polygraph security clearance required