Senior Security Analyst
223AW - Customer Site, Springfield,VA
Full Time Senior-level / Expert Clearance required USD 99K - 151K *
ManTech
Secure our Nation, Ignite your Future
Become an integral part of a diverse team while working at an Industry Leading Organization, where our employees come first. At ManTech International Corporation, you’ll help protect our national security while working on innovative projects that offer opportunities for advancement.
Currently, ManTech is seeking a motivated, career and customer-oriented Senior Security Analyst to work to join our team supporting a U. S. Government program in Springfield, VA.
Responsibilities Include:
Monitor intrusion detection and prevention systems and other security event data sources.
Determine if security events monitored should be escalated to incidents and follow all applicable incident response and reporting processes and procedures.
Ability to problem solve, ask questions, and discover why things are happening.
Correlate data from intrusion detection and prevention systems with data from other sources
Develop and produce reports on all activities and incidents to help maintain day to day status, develop and report on trends, and provide focus and situational awareness on all issues.
Reporting outputs will be reviewed and approved to ensure quality and metrics are maintained.
Responsible for tuning and filtering of events and information, creating custom views and content using all available tools following an approved methodology and with approval and concurrence from management.
Notify the Customer of significant changes in the security threat against the Customer networks in a timely manner and in writing via established reporting methods.
Coordinate with the O&M team to ensure production systems are operating efficiently.
Produce daily/weekly/monthly/quarterly reporting as required by management.
Maintain system baselines and configuration management items, including security event monitoring "policies" in a manner determined and agreed to by management. Ensure changes are made using an approval process agreed to in advance.
Produce reports identifying significant or suspicious security events to appropriate parties. Include latest security threat information and tie back to specific intrusion sets of nation state actors when possible.
Review and evaluate network modifications and recommend security monitoring policy updates.
Establish procedures for handling each security event detected.
Identify misuse, malware, or unauthorized activity on monitored networks. Report the activity appropriately as determined by the customer.
Provide analytical support as needed for the overall projects and systems by working with engineers, O&M, and other personnel to ensure effective operations of all capabilities, piloting of new systems, and periodic updates to systems.
Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
Good interpersonal, organizational, writing, communications and briefing skills.
Basic Qualifications:
Position Requires 7 or more years experience in cyber security analysis, incident response, or related IA/Security experience.
Extensive knowledge and/or experience protecting network environments against insider threat.
Experience working with Splunk Analytics tool
Knowledge of Cisco ISE, Stealthwatch, SourceFire and AMP
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) Certification preferred
Security Requirements:
Must be a U.S. Citizen and hold an Active Top Secret Clearance with SCI Eligibility
Education Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in computer engineering, computer science, or other closely related IT discipline, Bachelor's Degree may be substituted for 4 or more years of relevant experience
For all positions requiring access to technology/software source code that is subject to export control laws, employment with the company is contingent on either verifying U.S.-person status or obtaining any necessary license. The applicant will be required to answer certain questions for export control purposes, and that information will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. ManTech may choose not to apply for a license for such individuals whose access to export-controlled technology or software source code may require authorization and may decline to proceed with an applicant on that basis alone.
ManTech International Corporation, as well as its subsidiaries proactively fulfills its role as an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, marital status, physical or mental disability, status as a Disabled Veteran, Recently Separated Veteran, Active Duty Wartime or Campaign Badge Veteran, Armed Forces Services Medal, or any other characteristic protected by law.
If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a position with ManTech through its online applicant system, please contact ManTech's Corporate EEO Department at (703) 218-6000. ManTech is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer - minorities, females, disabled and protected veterans are urged to apply. ManTech's utilization of any external recruitment or job placement agency is predicated upon its full compliance with our equal opportunity/affirmative action policies. ManTech does not accept resumes from unsolicited recruiting firms. We pay no fees for unsolicited services.
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* Salary range is an estimate based on our InfoSec / Cybersecurity Salary Index 💰
Tags: Analytics CISSP Clearance Compliance Computer Science Incident response Intrusion detection Malware Monitoring Security analysis Sourcefire Splunk Top Secret Top Secret Clearance
Perks/benefits: Team events
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