External Title SITEC - Cyber Defense Incident Responder - MacDill AFB

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Peraton requires a Cyber Defense Incident Responder to support the Special Operation Command Information Technology Enterprise Contract (SITEC) – 3 EOM. This position is located at Mac Dill AFB in Florida.

The purpose of the Special Operations Forces Information Technology Enterprise Contract (SITEC) 3 Enterprise Operations and Maintenance (EOM) Task Order (TO) is to provide USSOCOM, its Component Commands, its Theater Special Operations Commands (TSOCs), and its deployed forces with Operations and Maintenance (O&M) services to maintain Network Operations (Net Ops); maintain systems and network infrastructure; provide end user and common device support;

provide configuration, change, license, and asset management; conduct training, and perform Install, Move, Add, Change (IMACs) services. The responsibilities and tasks associated with each requirement play a pivotal role to USSOCOM, the CIO/J6 organization, and ultimately the end-user who operate around the globe 24x7x365.

The Cyber Defense Incident Responder serves as a frontline technical responder responsible for the end-to-end containment, investigation, eradication, and recovery phases of the cyber incident response lifecycle. Activated upon alert triage or security anomalies, this position executes rapid tactical containment to halt adversary maneuverability, conducts host and network digital forensics (volatile memory analysis, disk imaging, and live response), performs malware triage, and coordinates enterprise-wide credential purges.

The Incident Responder establishes incident command during high-severity crises, interfaces with operational stakeholders and regulatory bodies, and authors formal After-Action Reports (AARs) detailing root causes to permanently remediate exploited weaknesses.

• Conduct immediate assessment and validation of inbound escalations, determining scope, impact, severity, and root cause of live security incidents.
• Execute immediate response actions to isolate compromised endpoints, sever malicious network connections, and halt unauthorized lateral movement across enclaves.
• Conduct host-based and network digital forensics, including volatile memory analysis, disk imaging, and artifact extraction to reconstruct adversary timelines.
• Eliminate adversary persistence mechanisms, purge unauthorized credentials, and validate clean system baselines prior to returning services to normal operations.
• Maintain strict chain-of-custody documentation, produce formal Incident Summaries and After-Action Reports (AARs), and provide root-cause findings to the detection engineering team.
• Perform static and dynamic triage of recovered malicious binaries, scripts, and dropper files to extract hardcoded IOCs, persistence mechanisms, and execution behavior.
• Identify, catalog, and remove all adversary-created persistence artifacts, such as unauthorized scheduled tasks, rogue services, modified registry keys,…