Description

Leidos Defense Group is looking for a Cyber Analyst to work Joint Base Andrews supporting the AFNCR IT Services program.

Job Summary:

The AFNCR IT Services program provides support services for information systems for Headquarters Air Force (HAF), Air Force District of Washington (AFDW), Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), Joint Chiefs of Staff, and other Air Force activities within the AFNCR, missions to include the Pentagon, Joint Base Andrews (JBA), Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling (JBAB), and other locations, leased spaces, and alternate sites. The major support areas required are IT Operations and Maintenance; Plans, Projects, and Engineering (PP&E); and National Military Command Center (NMCC). The senior leaders and national defense missions that are supported require that the AFNCR operations never fail, resulting in a fast-paced, challenging, but also rewarding environment.

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Leidos Defense Group provides a diverse portfolio of systems, solutions, and services covering land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace for customers worldwide. Solutions for Defense include enterprise and mission IT, large-scale intelligence systems, command and control, geospatial and data analytics, cybersecurity, logistics, training, and intelligence analysis and operations support. Our team is solving the world’s toughest security challenges for customers with “can’t fail” missions.

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Primary Responsibilities:

• Activities include detection, mitigation, and response to cyber incidents using a combination of technology solutions and processes and ensuring security issues are addressed quickly on discovery.

• Responsibilities may include collecting and analyzing intelligence to correlate adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures, investigating computer and information security incidents, conducting computer forensic network and host analysis, intrusion and threat hunting support, performing penetration tests to evaluate system security, maintaining proficiency in operation tools, creating countermeasures, and identifying trends in adversary behaviors and vulnerabilities.

• Responsible for operational planning in support of training, exercises, operations and coordination of integrated cyber operations by targeting hostile adversary activities and capabilities.

• Interpret, analyze, and report all events and irregularities in accordance with computer network directives; including initiating, responding, and reporting discovered events.

• Perform full packet analysis of PCAP to determine indication of true incident or false positive using Wireshark.

• Identify IOCs, TTPs, and other possible malicious activity using various SIEMs.

• Perform detailed analysis of log data to detect and investigate potential security events.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and 2+ years of prior relevant experience or a Master's and less than 2 years of experience (additional years of experience / related DISA customer experience and Cyber courses & certifications may be considered in lieu of degree).

• Must possess an active DoD 8570, IAT Level II Certification.

• Demonstrated understanding of the life cycle of network threats, attacks, attack vectors and methods of exploitation with an understanding of intrusion set tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs).

• Demonstrated understanding of TCP/IP, common networking ports and protocols, traffic flow, system administration, OSI model, defense-in-depth and common security elements.

• Familiarity or experience in Intelligence Driven Defense.

• Must have an active DoD Secret clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with any of the following tools: Trellix, HBSS, ELK, Security Onion, Ansible,

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.