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Senior Incident Response Analyst Jobs in Arlington, Virginia, USA at Leidos
Title: Senior Incident Response Analyst
Company: Leidos
Location: Arlington, Virginia, USA
Type: Full Time
Category: IT/Tech, Security
At Leidos, we deliver
innovative solutions
through the efforts of our
diverse
and talented people who are dedicated to our customers’ success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainable. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business.
If this sounds like the kind of environment where you can thrive, keep reading!
The Digital Modernization Sector brings together our
digital transformation
and IT programs, allowing us to better serve our customers through scale and repeatability. Leidos has a critical need for a Senior Incident Response Analyst to support the DHS CISA Program.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Security Operations Center (SOC) Support Services is a US Government program responsible to monitor, detect, analyze, mitigate, and respond to cyber threats and adversarial activity on the DHS Enterprise. The DHS SOC has primary responsibility for monitoring and responding to security events and incidents detected at the Trusted Internet Connection (TIC) and Policy Enforcement Point (PEP) and is responsible for directing and coordinating detection and response activities performed by each Component SOC.
Direction and coordination are achieved through a new shared DHS incident tracking system and other means of coordination and
communication
. Leidos is seeking a Senior Incident Response Analyst to
join our team
on this highly visible DHS CISA SOC Program.
The Incident Responder will perform the following:
• Coordinate investigation and response efforts throughout the Incident Response lifecycle
• Correlate and and analyze events and data to determine scope of Cyber Incidents
• Acquire and analyze endpoint and network artifacts, volatile memory, malicious files/binaries and scripts
• Recognize attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures as potential indicators of compromise (IOCs) that can be used to improve monitoring, analysis and Incident Response.
• Develop, document, and maintain Incident Response process, procedures, workflows, and playbooks
• Tune and maintain security tools (EDR, IDS, SIEM, etc) to reduce false positives and improve SOC detection capabilities
• Document Investigation and Incident Response actions taken in Case Management Systems and prepare formal Incident Reports
• Create metrics and determine Key Performance Indicators to drive maturity of SOC operations
• Develop security content such as scripts, signatures, and alerts
Basic Qualifications Bachelors’ degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Cyber Security, or related field and 12-15 years of related experience. Additional years of experience and/or cyber certifications may be considered in lieu of knowledge of each phase of the Incident Response life cycle
• Expertise of Operating Systems (Windows/Linux) operations and artifacts
• Expertise of Enterprise Network Architectures to include routing/switching, common protocols (DHCP, DNS, HTTP, etc), and devices (Firewalls, Proxies, Load Balancers, VPN, etc)
• Ability to recognize suspicious activity/events, common attacker TTPs, and perform logical analysis and research to determine root cause and scope of Incidents
• …
