OT​/ICS SOC Analyst

OT/ICS SOC Analyst

Huntsville, Alabama

Are you ready to enhance your skills and build your career in a rapidly evolving business climate? Are you looking for a career where professional development is embedded in your employer's core culture? If so, Chenega Military, Intelligence & Operations Support (MIOS) could be the place for you! Join our team of professionals who support large-scale government operations by leveraging cutting-edge technology and take your career to the next level!

Chronos Operations (CO) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chenega Corporation, an Alaska Native Corporation based in Anchorage, AK. Belonging to the Military, Intelligence, and Operations Support (MIOS) Strategic Business Unit (SBU), Chronos has a culture rooted in integrity, respect, and exceptional performance. Chronos is headquartered in Colorado Springs, CO, and provides mission-critical services in Advanced Analytics & AI, Software Engineering, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Intelligence.

We deliver essential cyber services to our customers in support of their missions to sustain the national security and economic interests of our nation.

The OT / IC SOC Analyst performs advanced monitoring, threat hunting, anomaly investigation, incident response coordination, and threat analysis across converged IT/OT environments, Industrial Control Systems (ICS), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) platforms, Distributed Control Systems (DCS), and mission support networks.

Operating with increased autonomy within established operational authorities and rules of engagement, the analyst correlates telemetry across the Purdue Model (Levels 1-3+), evaluates physical process anomalies alongside digital indicators, ensures response measures prioritize personnel safety and process reliability, and continuously improves OT-specific detection mechanisms, playbooks, and defensive readiness.

• Monitor and analyze security telemetry across network, endpoint, identity, cloud, application, email, and other enterprise sources using approved SIEM, XDR, NDR, and security analytics platforms.
• Investigate escalated or complex cybersecurity events to determine validity, scope, affected assets and identities, potential mission impact, and required response actions.
• Correlate alerts with asset criticality, vulnerability information, threat intelligence, user behavior, and historical activity to develop evidence-based analytical conclusions.
• Lead or perform incident triage and analysis; collect, preserve, and document relevant evidence in accordance with established procedures and evidence-handling requirements.
• Execute authorized containment and response actions, including host isolation, account restriction, indicator blocking, or other approved measures, and coordinate eradication and recovery activities with responsible stakeholders.
• Develop clear incident records, analytical findings, timelines, and technical reports; communicate status, risk, and recommended actions to SOC leadership and mission stakeholders.
• Apply threat intelligence, indicators of compromise, adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures, and frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK to identify related activity and support defensive recommendations.
• Review and validate findings, recommendations, and summaries generated by automated analytics, machine learning, or AI-enabled cybersecurity capabilities before operational use.
• Tune alerts and detection logic, recommend telemetry improvements, and help reduce false positives, coverage gaps, and analyst workload in coordination with detection engineering or platform owners.
• Develop, test, maintain, and improve incident response playbooks, standard operating procedures, queries, dashboards, and repeatable analytical workflows.
• Participate in or facilitate post-incident reviews and lessons-learned activities; translate findings into corrective actions and measurable operational improvements.
• Mentor SOC Analyst I personnel, provide quality reviews of escalated cases, and share technical knowledge across shifts and teams.
• Support cyber exercises, readiness assessments, recovery validation, and continuous improvement activities as directed by the SOC Lead.
• Perform additional duties as assigned.

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Data Science, or a related field and 3+ years of relevant experience.
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