Job Requirements
Washington, DC
Secret Polygraph Unspecified
Career Level not specified
$90,000 - $100,000
Job Description
Junior SOC Analyst - Back-Half Night Shift
Washington, DC - Onsite
ACTIVE TOP-SECRET CLEARANCE
$90K-$100K
We are seeking SOC Analyst for multiple opportunities that are 100% onsite in Washington, DC. ALL APPLICANTS MUST HAVE AN ACTIVE TOP-SECRET CLEARANCE. NO EXCEPTIONS!!!!
Must be willing to work the following 12-hour shifts, including Holidays:
7 pm-7 am Thursday-Saturday and every other Wednesday
You will be required to take an in-person hands-on keyboard interview assessment to be considered.
There is a mandatory 90-day probationary period of performance.
Must have at least 3-5 years of experience.
MUST be proficient in the following areas:
• Must be currently supporting 24x7x365 SOC or Cyber Watch operations for a Federal Government agency.
• Must be a self-starter and display the ability to research and find the answer "On your own".
• Must be able to work with minimal to no supervision.
• Must be able to learn new technologies and techniques provided by the SOC Chief as well as "On your own".
• Must be able to read, write, and comprehend at the intermediate level.
• Must be able to read, comprehend, and apply standard operating procedures, playbooks, and directives provided by the SOC Chief.
• Must have an understand and applied knowledge of the full Triage process to determine if an event is a true positive or false positive.
• Must be able to hypothesize during an event to determine an outcome.
• Must have basic - intermediate understanding of various cyber-attacks (new and old) across various platforms and environments including Active Directory, Windows, Linux. Cloud is a plus.
• Must know how to perform and create basic-intermediate custom Splunk searches in Splunk Enterprise Security to obtain various information for various cyber investigations as needed and/or requested by senior leadership.
• Must know how to perform basic-intermediate threat hunting in Splunk for various cyber-attacks including, but not limited to: Active Directory Attacks, User Behavior Analysis, Privileged User activity, Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) activity, and other ad hoc searches as needed and/or requested
• Must be able to identify root-cause using various native and security tools (Splunk Enterprise Security, Trellix, ACAS, SolarWinds, EnCase, AWS Guard Duty, AWS Security Hub)
• Must be able to read and comprehend various log types.
• Must be able to correlate logs to investigate various cyber events and incidents using native and security tools (Splunk Enterprise Security, Trellix, ACAS, SolarWinds, EnCase, AWS Guard Duty, AWS Security Hub)
• Must have basic - intermediate understanding and applied knowledge of networking fundamentals to include, but not limited to most common ports and protocols, what they are, and how they work)
• Must have a basic - intermediate understanding and applied knowledge of command line tools to obtain information needed for triage analysis including, but not limited to windows command line, Linux command line, PowerShell, etc.
• Prior Help desk and system administrators with ticket handling, Active Directory, and command line scripting experience preferred and are encouraged to apply.
Education Requirements
A bachelors or higher degree is highly preferred and a DOD IAT II certification
Clearance Requirements
Active Top-Secret with SCI/Q eligibility
Washington, DC - Onsite
ACTIVE TOP-SECRET CLEARANCE
$90K-$100K
We are seeking SOC Analyst for multiple opportunities that are 100% onsite in Washington, DC. ALL APPLICANTS MUST HAVE AN ACTIVE TOP-SECRET CLEARANCE. NO EXCEPTIONS!!!!
Must be willing to work the following 12-hour shifts, including Holidays:
7 pm-7 am Thursday-Saturday and every other Wednesday
You will be required to take an in-person hands-on keyboard interview assessment to be considered.
There is a mandatory 90-day probationary period of performance.
Must have at least 3-5 years of experience.
MUST be proficient in the following areas:
• Must be currently supporting 24x7x365 SOC or Cyber Watch operations for a Federal Government agency.
• Must be a self-starter and display the ability to research and find the answer "On your own".
• Must be able to work with minimal to no supervision.
• Must be able to learn new technologies and techniques provided by the SOC Chief as well as "On your own".
• Must be able to read, write, and comprehend at the intermediate level.
• Must be able to read, comprehend, and apply standard operating procedures, playbooks, and directives provided by the SOC Chief.
• Must have an understand and applied knowledge of the full Triage process to determine if an event is a true positive or false positive.
• Must be able to hypothesize during an event to determine an outcome.
• Must have basic - intermediate understanding of various cyber-attacks (new and old) across various platforms and environments including Active Directory, Windows, Linux. Cloud is a plus.
• Must know how to perform and create basic-intermediate custom Splunk searches in Splunk Enterprise Security to obtain various information for various cyber investigations as needed and/or requested by senior leadership.
• Must know how to perform basic-intermediate threat hunting in Splunk for various cyber-attacks including, but not limited to: Active Directory Attacks, User Behavior Analysis, Privileged User activity, Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) activity, and other ad hoc searches as needed and/or requested
• Must be able to identify root-cause using various native and security tools (Splunk Enterprise Security, Trellix, ACAS, SolarWinds, EnCase, AWS Guard Duty, AWS Security Hub)
• Must be able to read and comprehend various log types.
• Must be able to correlate logs to investigate various cyber events and incidents using native and security tools (Splunk Enterprise Security, Trellix, ACAS, SolarWinds, EnCase, AWS Guard Duty, AWS Security Hub)
• Must have basic - intermediate understanding and applied knowledge of networking fundamentals to include, but not limited to most common ports and protocols, what they are, and how they work)
• Must have a basic - intermediate understanding and applied knowledge of command line tools to obtain information needed for triage analysis including, but not limited to windows command line, Linux command line, PowerShell, etc.
• Prior Help desk and system administrators with ticket handling, Active Directory, and command line scripting experience preferred and are encouraged to apply.
Education Requirements
A bachelors or higher degree is highly preferred and a DOD IAT II certification
Clearance Requirements
Active Top-Secret with SCI/Q eligibility
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