Estimated Length: 12 Months Work hours:37.50 Est. OT Hrs/Wk:

Requirements

*PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS POSITION WILL REQUIRE CONSULTANT TO WORK ONSITE AT A MINIMUM OF 1X PER WEEK, AND AS NEEDED BEYOND THAT. HOWEVER, MANAGER IS WILL ALLOW REMOTE TO A LARGE DEGREE ONCE CONSULTANT BUILDS TRUST AND DEMONSTRATES THEY ARE ACCOUNTABLE AND RELIABLE.*

This job is responsible for performing analytical tasks related to CSOC projects, satiation responsibilities, and technical support for the Cyber Security Operations center.  The qualified candidate must possess technical skills and knowledge for tracking and moving highly technical projects forward. 

The candidate will be responsible for providing IT cyber security support for key initiatives, ensuring requests from management are completed on-time, within scope and with an extremely high quality set of deliverables. This candidate will be expected to work on several projects at a time.

This candidate will also provide analytical support for cybersecurity investigations and activities, this will include working with data and logs from CSOC security tools.  Assisting management with routine reporting requirements, analyzing complex data to resolve security events, and incidents.  Ensure system security and reliability by assisting with maintaining security device configurations / backups and security monitoring tools.

The following desired knowledge, skills, and abilities are required for this position:

• Excellent organizational, decision making and communications skills.
• Knowledgeable of network security operations with a good understanding of the technology.
• Excellent attention to detail and creative problem-solving abilities, coupled with a desire to take on responsibility.
• Strong team player and people skills with the ability to engage and motivate fellow staff members to drive results and create solutions and results to unexpected situations.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment and prioritize highly varied work in order to maintain required productivity levels.
• Ability to communicate technical info and ideas so others will understand.
• Ability to make appropriate decisions considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions.
• Assist and motivate less experienced team members to achieve goals.
• Work alongside / within a group of technical security staff responsible for the management, response, and reporting to all Client Computer and Network security related incidents.
• Ability to provide statistical analysis:
  • Assisting CSOC simulation and incident testing, correlation of events, trend analysis, comparing against security policy and vulnerability database.
• Participate / assist CSOC analyst with incident reporting and providing forensic investigation reports to management, assist with notifying, and coordinating changes with all Client agencies and departments as a result of security incidents.
• Assist with forecasting, budgeting, and monitoring of data security projects and procedures as they relate to Cyber Security Operation Center.
• Analyze any roadblocks or issues beforehand and report them or escalate the critical issue to management for proactive action to avoid the latency.
• Provides communications and steady leadership to customers during times of crisis that accompany cybersecurity incidents.
• Assist with data/evidence gathering, documentation and reporting during incidents and investigations ensuring sound forensic practices
   

Additional Skills and Information:

• Expert knowledge of Microsoft Office products, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook
  • Excel Pivot Tables and formulas, PowerPoint presentations including animation
• Expert knowledge of Adobe products
• Working knowledge of UNIX, Windows, OSX, would be a plus
• Candidate should be comfortable with examining a variety of data sources including writing Splunk queries, EDR queries, and other technologies as required.
• The candidate should be comfortable with ingesting and processing intelligence that aligns with MITRE ATT&CK Framework including TTPs that align with MITRE ATT&CK framework.
   

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