Intrusion Analyst Mid-Sr Levels

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Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Intrusion Analyst (Mid-Sr levels) to join our team! In this role, you will conduct forensic examinations of network intrusions, malicious activity, compromised systems, advanced persistent threats, and cyber incidents while developing actionable analysis to support investigative and cybersecurity operations.

• Conduct forensic examinations involving network intrusions, malicious activity, compromised systems, advanced persistent threat activity, and cyber incidents.
• Develop or maintain scripts and analytical utilities for artifact triage, artifact extraction, timeline development, and repetitive examination tasks.
• Identify indicators of compromise, persistence mechanisms, lateral-movement activity, command-and-control activity, privilege escalation, credential abuse, and other adversary behaviors.
• Perform evidence identification, forensic image and extraction review, hashing, timestamp analysis, artifact interpretation, anti-forensic detection, and user-activity reconstruction.
• Conduct initial forensic triage to identify key artifacts, determine examination scope, and support case assignment and prioritization.
• Maintain accurate chain-of-custody documentation and ensure evidence is handled, stored, transferred, and disposed of in accordance with laboratory procedures and security requirements.
• Prepare complete, technically accurate, and professionally formatted Malware Analysis Reports.
• Validate malware-analysis tools, document validation results, verify tool outputs, and develop or maintain approved scripts using version-control practices, as assigned.
• Participate in technical peer reviews of forensic reports and incorporate review comments.
• Support expert-witness preparation, affidavits, warrants, mock depositions, moot court sessions, and testimony when designated and qualified.
• Support quality-assurance activities, including SOP implementation, audit readiness, competency testing, and accreditation-related documentation.
• Support metrics collection and analysis involving case volume, backlog, throughput, cycle time, timeliness, workload, rework, error rates, and quality indicators.
• Provide technical input to training, mentorship, process-improvement, and lessons-learned activities.

• Active Secret clearance;
  Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility is preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in Digital Forensics, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Criminal Justice, or a related field. Four years of hands-on digital-forensics or intrusion-analysis experience may be substituted for the degree.

Hands-on digital-forensics or intrusion-analysis experience appropriate to the assigned level:

• Intrusion Analyst 3:
  Minimum of eight years.
• Intrusion Analyst 4:
  Minimum of 12 years.

• Ability to analyze network intrusions, malicious activity, compromised systems, advanced persistent threats, and cyber incidents.
• Experience identifying indicators of compromise, persistence mechanisms, lateral movement, command-and-control activity, privilege escalation, credential abuse, and other adversary behaviors.
• Ability to perform forensic image and extraction review, hashing, timestamp analysis, artifact interpretation, anti-forensic detection, and user-activity reconstruction.
• Experience maintaining…