Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Peraton is hiring a Senior SOC Analyst for its Department of State Consular Affairs Enterprise Infrastructure Operations program. The role monitors and investigates security threats, supports incident response and threat hunting, and improves SOC processes and security monitoring.
Responsibilities
- Monitor and investigate security alerts, perform threat hunting, and notify designated managers, cyber incident responders, and cybersecurity service provider personnel of suspected incidents. Clearly articulate event history, status, and potential impact in accordance with the organization’s cyber incident response plan
- Analyze and characterize network traffic to identify anomalous activity and potential threats to network resources
- Create advanced ad hoc SPL queries
- Coordinate with internal and external teams to investigate threats, assess risks, and conduct forensic analysis
- Review and analyze log files from various sources (host logs, network traffic logs, firewall logs, IDS logs) to identify potential security threats
- Utilize SIEM and EDR tools to monitor the operational environment
- Develop and document configuration standards, policies, and procedures to operate, manage, and secure system infrastructure
- Advise management and team members on technology risks and recommend mitigation strategies
- Engage with multiple levels of management, providing technical expertise and thought leadership
- Prepare reports detailing investigations, incidents, and other security-related activities
- Identify and classify attack tactics and techniques
- Recommend and implement enhancements to improve system performance, security, and reliability
- Build and refine SOC processes and procedures, including documenting work in SOPs
- Train and mentor junior SOC team members
- Plan and execute SOC-related projects and initiatives
- Communicate clearly and professionally with managers and colleagues
- Demonstrate flexibility and an eagerness to take on additional responsibilities as needed
Skills
- Bachelors degree and 8 years of experience or a Masters degree and 6 years of experience or an Associates degree and 10 years of experience or a High School diploma/equivalent and 12 years of experience
- U.S. citizenship and an active **SECRET** security clearance
- Must have a Security+ CE or other DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification
- 5+ years of cybersecurity, SOC, or systems security experience in a federal government environment supporting business critical, high-availability systems
- 3+ years experience working with a SIEM platform, preferably Splunk
- Experience using Splunk (or similar) dashboards and Microsoft Sentinel for security monitoring and analysis
- 4+ years of experience querying and analyzing security data, including SPL, with a working understanding of data types, conditions, and regular expressions
- Working knowledge of system, network, and application security threats and vulnerabilities, with the ability to support the development and improvement of monitoring solutions
- Understanding of Boolean logic and event correlation
- Experience identifying logging and monitoring gaps and supporting efforts to improve security monitoring
- Working knowledge of cybersecurity incidents, anomaly analysis, log analysis, digital forensics, and common threat vectors
- Understanding of TCP/IP, UDP, network ports, protocols, and traffic flow
- Familiarity with cybersecurity frameworks and specifications, including RMF and NIST standards, such as NIST SP 800-53
- Familiarity frameworks and specifications, including RMF and NIST standards (e.g., NIST SP 800-53)
- Experience with Splunk data normalization (field aliases, calculated fields, field extractions)
- Splunk Power User certification or higher
- Experience tracking incidents using the MITRE ATT&CK framework
- Knowledge of cloud security
- Experience with system administration, networking, and operating system hardening techniques
- Mixed OS experience (Linux, Windows)
- Experience troubleshooting storage-related issues
- Scripting or coding experience
- Knowledge of Web Application Firewall (WAF) security features
Benefits
- This position is fully remote; however, occasional onsite meetings, training sessions, or customer support activities may take place at the Washington, DC, customer location or the Peraton office in Sterling, VA. The number of days worked on-site is subject to change based on government/program requirements.
- Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.
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