Cyber Intrusion Detection System Administrator Level 4: 104-034
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IC-CAP LLC is a Woman Owned / HUBZone Small Business working in the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community. We are always looking for highly talented, energetic, and dynamic professionals that are interested in protecting the defense of our nation.
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We are looking to fill this position at the following location(s):
- Colorado Springs, CO or Bolling AFB, Washington D.C, Reston, VA
Job Description
Cyber Intrusion Detection System Administrator Level 4:
Monitor day-to-day operations of the sensors (Suricata, Palo Alto, and ArcSight) located at supporting customer's locations.
Perform Enterprise Defense Countermeasure (DC) activities and coordination with other government agencies to record and prepare incident reports and analysis methodology and results.
Monitor and analyze signature alerts from Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS) for false positives.
Provide technical enforcement of organizational security policies.
Provide "tune-or-drop" recommendations towards the DC team's Signature Lifecycle Review procedure.
Provide insight to Detection and Response teams on signature functionality and providing signature tuning as needed.
Communicate with customers and teammates clearly and concisely.
Maintain current knowledge of relevant technology as assigned.
Participate in special projects as required.
Position is day shift but may require evening, weekend or shift-work (depending on operational tempo).
Level 4:
Investigates, analyzes, and responds to cyber incidents within a network environment or enclave.
Uses data collected from a variety of cyber defense tools (e.g., IDS alerts, firewalls, network traffic logs) to analyze events that occur within their environments for the purposes of mitigating threats.
Interprets, analyzes, and reports all events and anomalies in accordance with computer network directives, including initiating, responding, and reporting discovered events.
Evaluates, tests, recommends, coordinates, monitors, and maintains cybersecurity policies, procedures, and systems, including access management for hardware, firmware, and software.
Ensures that cybersecurity plans, controls, processes, standards, policies, and procedures are aligned with cybersecurity standards.
Identifies security risks and exposures, determines the causes of security violations and suggests procedures to halt future incidents and improve security.
Researches and evaluates new concepts and processes to improve performance.
Analyzes cross-functional problem sets, identifies root causes and resolves issues.
Develops techniques and procedures for conducting cybersecurity risk assessments and compliance audits, the evaluation and testing of hardware, firmware and software for possible impact on system security, and the investigation and resolution of security incidents such as intrusion, frauds, attacks or leaks.
May coach and provide guidance to less-experienced professionals.
May serve as a team or task lead.
Preferred Skills:
Experience in intrusion detection and prevention systems.
Proficient in network security technologies and protocols.
Dashboarding in Splunk.
Palo Alto Certification Next-Generation Firewall
Skills and Abilities:
Required
Experience with Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE).
Experience authoring Yara rules.
Experience authoring Snort signatures.
Education and Experience:
HSD/GED+12yrs
Associates+10yrs
Bachelors+8yrs
Masters+6yrs
PhD+4yrs
NOTE: Relevant professional certifications will be considered equivalent to six (6) months of relevant experience.
Training and Certifications:
IAT Level 2
Security Clearance:
Active TS/SCI and the willingness to sit for a polygraph, if needed
IC-CAP provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status.