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Diligent Consulting Inc

Cyber Security Incident and Event Management/Elastic Specialist

Diligent Consulting Inc, Washington, District of Columbia, us, 20022

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Diligent Consulting Inc

US CITIZEN ONLY. SECRET CLEARANCE REQUIRED. MUST HAVE IT-II CERT (IE SECURITY+)

Responsibilities

Be responsible for designing & setting up the ingestion of various customer data flows to include pre-processing data into a usable format, ensuring proper parsing and indexing.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams and responsible for designing & integrating Elastic with a wide variety of data sources and developing associated knowledge objects such as queries, dashboards, reports, alerts for monitoring and analytics.

Perform data transformation using Elastic query language.

Track the health of the Elastic environment and optimize its performance. Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to security, performance, data indexing, and searches.

Perform watch-officer monitoring duties, including:

Monitoring, detecting, investigating, and responding to cybersecurity threats and events using Elastic /SIEM Platform.

Reviewing correlated alerts and logs for compromise scenarios.

Performing triage of security alerts to prioritize response.

Identifying false positives.

Investigating security incidents and determining root cause.

Collecting and preserving logs for analysis.

Escalating confirmed incidents to leadership or SOC teams.

Coordinating with IT or DevOps for containment and remediation.

Creating after-action reports (AAR) post-incident.

In addition, the role may include assistance with monitoring Vulnerability Management tools, such as ACAS and ePO.

Qualifications

Have at least three years of working knowledge and hands-on experience with Elastic/Splunk query languages, monitoring SIEM dashboards and real-time alerts, fine-tuning SIEM rules to reduce noise, and NIST 800-53 & DevSecOps frameworks.

Seniority Level

Mid-Senior level

Employment Type

Full-time

Job Function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Internet Publishing

Washington, DC

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