SOC​/Cyber Analyst

SOC/Cyber Analyst

Leidos is seeking a SOC/Cyber Analyst for a 6-month contract. After the 6-months on contract Leidos will convert them to a full-time Leidos employee.

The work will be performed 100% onsite at Fort Meade, Maryland.

Number of openings: 2

Referral fee: $7

Pay range: $6.10

Salary range: $115,000 – 130,000

Work schedule:

Candidates only need to work one of these shifts.

• Monday – Thursday 1pm – 11pm
• Monday – Thursday 9pm – 7am
• Friday – Sunday 420pm – 540am

• Active Top Secret Clearance
• Active IAT level 2 or IAT level 3 certification
• 2-8 years of experience

• Leverage intelligence and operational data, information, and processes to identify threats, improve security, and reduce the enterprise’s exposure of vulnerabilities.
• Execute continuous network monitoring and incident/problem resolution.
• Triage events, incidents, and develop AO specific trends.
• Support various collaborative and cross functional (Intelligence, Current Operations, Future Operations, Logistics, Planning, Resourcing and Requirements) forums to achieve centrally coordinated, threat informed and prioritized vulnerability scoring and mitigation methodology.
• Provide situational understanding of the assigned operational environment.
• Support the development, coordination, release and compliance of orders
• Provide threat analysis, track relevant prioritized incidents and provide recommended reporting requirements in coordination with the Cross Functional Fusion Team.

• Ability to maintain DoD TS/SCI clearance
• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline with 4 - 12 years of experience
• IAT Level II (Network + CE, Security + CE, CySA+, CND, CISSP, CASP+ CE) Certification and Operations Familiarity with all related aspects of cybersecurity operations/analysis
• SIEM Tool Experience (Arc Sight, Splunk, Wireshark, etc)
• In-depth knowledge of network and application protocols, cyber vulnerabilities and exploitation techniques and cyber threat/adversary methodologies (TTPs).

• Experience with DISA and DoD Networks.
• Knowledge of the DoD orders process
• Demonstrated experience briefing Senior Executive Service (SES) and General Officer/Flag Officer (GO/FO) leadership.
• Experience in building extended cyber security analytics.
• Experience in intelligence driven defense and/or cyber Kill Chain methodology.