Cyber Detection Engineer

Description

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Security Operations Center (SOC) is a U.S. Government program responsible to prevent, identify, contain and eradicate cyber threats to CBP networks through monitoring, intrusion detection and protective security services to CBP information systems including local area networks/wide area networks (LAN/WAN), commercial Internet connection, public facing websites, wireless, mobile/cellular, cloud, security devices, servers and workstations.

The CBP SOC is responsible for the overall security of CBP Enterprise-wide information systems, and collects, investigates, and reports any suspected and confirmed security violations.

Leidos is seeking an experienced Cyber Detection Engineer to join our team. As a member of the highly technical Operations Enhancement team supporting U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), you will be responsible for in-depth technical analysis of network and endpoint logs & activity, developing signatures, alerts, rules, etc., to improve the security posture of the environment, developing processes and procedures for new tools and technologies in support of the protection of the customers’ systems, networks, and assets.

• Create, develop, and maintain new security content as the result of hunt missions, penetration tests, tuning requests and others, to include signatures, alerts, rules, workflows, and automation.
• Identify, track, and investigate high priority threat campaigns, malicious actors with the interest, capability and Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs).
• Coordinate with cross functional teams to improve threat detection, design security content, and improve overall security posture of the Enterprise.
• Proactively and iteratively search through systems and networks to detect advanced threats, and create content to monitor and alert on such activity/threats.
• Utilize the MITRE ATT&CK framework to understand TTPs of adversaries, threat actors, APTs, and threats targeting the customer agency and organize threat hunts around ATT&CK techniques and sub-techniques.
• Responsible for maintaining a comprehensive understanding of the cyber threat landscape, including identifying and analyzing cyber threats actors and/or activities to enhance cybersecurity posture of the organization’s IT operating environment.
• Hold conduct cyber threat analysis, identifying mitigation and/or remediation courses of action; developing actionable intelligence used to protect organizational IT assets; and trending cyber threat metrics for leadership situational awareness.
• Analyze host, network, and application logs in addition to malware and code.
• Will be responsible for developing scripts to support cyber threat detection that outputs results in a variety of formats, such as VB scripts, Python, C++, HTML, XML or other type most appropriate for the task.
• Produce high quality technical and non-technical products, briefings, whitepapers, etc., with minimal supervision and emphasis on effective/accurate reporting on product topics.
• Maintain the daily battle rhythm for the Detection Engineering Team with an emphasis on adherence to deadlines, attention to detail, and clear/concise communication with the customer and stakeholders.
• Will be responsible for:
• Developing, creating, and maintaining security content for deployment on tools and technologies across the enterprise environment.
• Identify, track, and investigate high priority threat campaigns, malicious actors with the interest, capability and Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) to create security content, and tune alerts, signatures, and rules.
• Utilizing the MITRE ATT&CK Framework to
• Author technical and non-technical reports and briefings to ensure leadership awareness of findings and observations.
• Create daily, weekly, and monthly reports and metrics for products and briefings.
• Process technical data from various sources and fuse the data with intelligence reporting to improve the security posture of the customer, as well as manage Threat Hunt tools.

• Must have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering,…