SOC Analyst (5333)
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Provide timely detection, identification, and alerting of possible attacks/intrusions, anomalous activities, and misuse activities and distinguish these incidents and events from benign activities
- Implement and manage multiple security tools to include SIEM’s, firewalls, IDS/IPS’s, threat and vulnerability management tools, data loss prevention tools, filtering technologies, traffic inspection solutions, reporting technology and data analytics platforms
- Use cyber defense tools for continual monitoring and analysis of system to identify malicious activity
- Document and escalate incidents (including event’s history, status, and potential impact for further action) that may cause ongoing and immediate impact to the environment
- Analyze identified malicious activity to determine weaknesses exploited, exploitation methods, effects on system and information
- Perform event correlation using information gathered from a variety of sources within the enterprise to gain situational awareness and determine the effectiveness of an observed attack
- Conduct research, analysis, and correlation across a wide variety of all source data sets (indications and warnings)
- Receive and analyze network alerts from various sources within the enterprise and determine possible causes of such alerts
- Perform cyber defense trend analysis and reporting
- Characterize and analyze network traffic to identify anomalous activity and potential threats to network resources
- Coordinate with enterprise-wide cyber defense staff to validate network alerts. Identify and analyze anomalies in network traffic using metadata
- Provide daily summary reports of network events and activity relevant to cyber defense practices. Identify applications and operating systems of a network device based on network traffic
- Threat research, OSINT, and classified sources for TTPS, IOCs and signatures for monitoring and alerting. RMF/CONMON support to aid in the mitigation of findings
- Supporting engineering to ensure network designs and operations are secure from inception to production
Required Skills/Experience
- Clearance Required: Top Secret
- 3-5 years of applicable work experience
- CompTIA Network+ certification
- Operating System certifications
- One or more of the following industry certifications: GCIA, GCIH, GCDA, GSOC, GCED, CYSA or equivalent certs
- Must be able to maintain DoD-8140 compliance
Desired Qualifications:
- Linux OS experience
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