Lead Cyber Detection Engineer
221AH - Customer Site, McLean, VA
Full Time Senior-level / Expert Clearance required USD 160K - 230K *
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ManTech is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Cyber Detection Engineer with experience in Splunk content development to lead our team of detection engineers. As a key member of our Cyber Security Incident Response Team, you will be responsible for developing custom threat detections leveraging your expert Splunk skills, familiarity with various cyber technologies, and your familiarity with advanced threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures. Your leadership and technical skills will play a vital role in safeguarding our organization's critical assets and ensuring the integrity of our information systems.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Provide subject matter expertise in the creation, editing, and management of signatures, rules and filters for specialized network defense systems such as Network and host-based IDS, IPS, NDR, EDR, firewall, web application firewalls, Proxy and SIEM systems
Manage and administer the tuning of rules, signatures, and custom content for specialized CND applications and systems
Identify potential conflicts with implementation of any CND tools within the enterprise and develop recommendations to remediate these conflicts
Manage inter-agency relationships with partner organizations to facilitate mission execution
Provide innovative and creative solutions to challenging problems
Provide logical use case development
Provide and track requirements to engineering partners
Identify gaps in visibility or coverage of cyber defense systems
Prepare and brief management and partner organizations on current state/proposed solutions
Prepare data analytics and reporting
Basic Qualifications:
5+ years of experience in Cyber Security, InfoSec, Security Engineering or Network Engineering with emphasis in cyber security issues and operations, computer incident response, systems architecture, data management
Ability to demonstrate expertise utilizing SIEM tools for use case development and application
Understanding of the following classes of enterprise cyber defense technologies:
Incident Response analysis
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems
Network Intrusion Detection System/Intrusion Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS)
Host Intrusion Detection System/Intrusion Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS)
Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR)
Endpoint and Network Detection and Response (EDR/NDR)
User Behavior Analytics (UBA)
Network and Host malware detection and prevention
Network and Host forensic applications
Web/Email gateway security technologies
DOD 8570 IAT Level I or CSSP-IR certification (can be obtained after hire)
Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or other closely related Information Technology field of study
Experience with all or some of the following:
Palo Alto Networks
McAfee ePO/NSM
Carbon Black
Tanium
Jira
Mitre ATT&CK
Python
Splunk ES
Ability to leverage interpersonal, organizational, writing, communications, and briefing skills
Ability to demonstrate strong analytical and problem solving skills
Clearance Requirement:
Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
Physical Requirements:
Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50%
Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine and computer printer
The person in this position needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.
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* Salary range is an estimate based on our InfoSec / Cybersecurity Salary Index 💰
Tags: Analytics Automation Carbon Black Clearance CND Compliance Computer Science Cyber defense Data Analytics DoD DoDD 8570 EDR Firewalls IDS Incident response Intrusion detection Intrusion prevention IPS Jira Malware MITRE ATT&CK NSM Polygraph Python SIEM SOAR Splunk TS/SCI
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