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General Dynamics Information Technology

Cybersecurity Analyst Principal

General Dynamics Information Technology, Bossier City, Louisiana, United States, 71111

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Type of Requisition Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain None

Public Trust/Other Required BI Full 6C (T4)

Job Family Cyber and IT Risk Management

Job Qualifications Skills:

Cybersecurity, Information Security, Information Technology (IT)

Certifications:

None

Experience:

5+ years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

Yes

Job Description Advance your career while impacting our national security in cyber as a

Cybersecurity Analyst Principal

at GDIT. Here, technologists have many paths to grow a meaningful career supporting cyber missions and operations across the federal government.

Meaningful Work and Personal Impact

As a

Cybersecurity Analyst Principal , the work you’ll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of the US Department of Education's Portfolio of Integrated Value-Oriented Technologies (PIVOT). You will play a crucial role via the following responsibilities:

Oversee the daily operations of the SOC and plan shift activities

Work closely with Incident Management Team

Must be willing to lead major incident management process, support Agency leadership during the activation of major/escalated incidents

Develop, author, and deliver process improvements for the SOC in order to maintain operational readiness for incident response

Monitor and report on call volumes, alarm responses, and incident reports to ensure appropriate levels of service are met

Partner with IT leadership and teams to support operational issues and prepare for potential incidents

Support annual updates of the incident response concept of operations document

Support annual incident response tabletop exercises

Lead, mentor, and coach SOC I and SOC II staff members

Work as part of a 24x7x365 team delivering real-time proactive monitoring and maintenance of supported security tools and associated rules and signatures

Carry out triage on security events, coordinate incidents with Incident Management Team, IT operations, network engineering, and application teams and support the Incident Management process

Identify and respond to incidents, to prevent or limit damage to assets, and report incidents

Detect and analyze incidents, coordinate activities with other stakeholders for containing, eradicating, and recovering from incidents

Development of advanced analytics and countermeasures to protect critical assets

IDS monitoring and analysis, network traffic and log analysis, prioritization and differentiation between potential intrusion attempts, determination of false alarms, insider threat and APT detection, and malware analysis/forensics

Supports the production and maintenance standard operational processes and procedures and playbooks for use by all shift personnel

Provide enterprise-wide management of security incidents, managed network space, to detect, respond, and report all computer related incidents that includes daily monitoring of information systems, vulnerability remediation, intrusion detection, log reviews, and malware tracking

Assess, identify, and remediate of the individuals and/or systems affected

Coordinate all information security incidents complied with timeline specifics

Coordinate the development of reports from the SIEM, NIDS, and HIDS

Remain up to date with current attack methods and characteristics in order to identify threats and advise on prevention, mitigation and remediation

Perform other tasks consistent with the goals and objectives of the department/contract

Perform other duties as assigned by Senior Program Executive

Responsible to fully document assigned tickets to show all work performed in order to pass SLRs

Responsible to manage team to fully document assigned tickets to show all work performed in order to pass SLRs

What You’ll Need to Succeed Education:

Technical Training, Certification(s) or Degree

Experience:

5+ years of related experience

Required Skills

Experience composing threat reports and other management level communications

Leadership experience of teams of 5 or more

Vulnerability Management – Nessus Vulnerability Scanning

Configuration Management - STIG/SCAP compliance baselines for windows, mac, linux

Splunk SEIM / Log Aggregation experience

Cloud Security - Familiarity with FedRAMP for IaaS, PaaS, SaaS

Experienced Incident Response Team (IRT) troubleshooting, root cause analysis and remediation verification

Knowledge of Identity Management, ICAM/IDAM and authorization, least privilege, reducing unauthorized elevated access

Firewall Understanding including basic networking, sub-netting, IDS, NAT, ACLs

Penetration Test Response and Remediation

DevSecOps – software development lifecycle security – scanning across the lifecycle and baking in application security for developers and containers

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint experience

Preferred Skills

ServiceNow ticketing and reporting experience

Linux, Windows, and Active Directory experience

Experience with Tenable and Palo Alto network security solutions

Cloud and mobile device experience

ForeScout CounterAct, DLP solutions and Cylance AV

CISSP certification

Security Clearance Level:

Must be able to obtain a position of Public Trust with the US Department of Education

US Citizenship Required

Location:

Hybrid at GDIT's Integrated Technology Center in Bossier City, LA

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Travel Required:

Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options:

Hybrid

Work Location:

USA LA Bossier City

Total Rewards at GDIT A comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off

The likely salary range for this position is $102,000 - $138,000. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

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