Network Based Systems Analyst II
Solutions³ LLC · Arlington, VA ·
- Employment
- Contract
- Category
- Business analysis
- Experience
- 2+ years
Title: Network Based Systems Analyst II
Description:
Solutions³ LLC is supporting our prime contractor and their U.S. Government customer on a large mission critical development and sustainment program for on and offsite incident response to Government agencies and critical infrastructure owners who experience cyber-attacks. Solutions³ LLC provides advanced technical assistance, proactive hunting, rapid onsite incident response, and immediate investigation, using host and network-based cybersecurity analysis capabilities.
Solutions³ LLC is seeking a Network Based Systems Analyst II to support this critical mission by performing investigations to characterize the level of severity of breaches and developing mitigation/remediation plans.
Eligibility:
Description:
Solutions³ LLC is supporting our prime contractor and their U.S. Government customer on a large mission critical development and sustainment program for on and offsite incident response to Government agencies and critical infrastructure owners who experience cyber-attacks. Solutions³ LLC provides advanced technical assistance, proactive hunting, rapid onsite incident response, and immediate investigation, using host and network-based cybersecurity analysis capabilities.
Solutions³ LLC is seeking a Network Based Systems Analyst II to support this critical mission by performing investigations to characterize the level of severity of breaches and developing mitigation/remediation plans.
Eligibility:
- Must be a US Citizen
- Must have an active TS/SCI clearance
- Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability prior to starting employment
- 2+ years of directly relevant experience in cyber defense analysis using leading edge technologies and industry standard cyber defense tools
- 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 escalate 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
- 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
- Experience conducting trend analysis
- Python programming experience
- Strong math and science background
- Experience with Carnegie Mellon SiLK tool suite
- One or more of the following professional certifications: GNFA, GCIH, GCIA, GSEC, CASP+, CySA+, PaLMS, FedVTE
- GSEC (SANS401), Arcsight (or other SEIM solution), Network+, Security+