Cyber Specialist

Dahlgren, VA

Education/

Certifications:

Bachelor’s Degree (desired); IAT Level II

Years of

Experience:

5+ years

Clearance Level & Investigation: TS with SCI eligibility / T5

IA Cert Level (DoD 8570.01): IAT Level II

Qualifications
:

The Cyber Hunt Specialist must have the following minimum qualifications:

• Five (5) years professional experience providing expertise for support of user requirements including complex to highly complex software/hardware applications, hunt methodologies, advanced actor campaigns and exploits, and telemetry refinement related to Cyber.
• Participates in all phases of incident response or hunt methodology (kill chain, pyramid of pain, diamond model).
• Provides expert level assistance to Digital Forensics and Incident Response and threat intelligence operations teams on advanced actor tactics, techniques and procedures related to Cyber.
• Keeps current on industry direction, trends, and future capabilities with respect to cyber threat analytics.
• Designated as IAT II level with a T5.
• Bachelor’s Degree desired but not required.

Responsibilities
:

• The Cyber Hunt Specialist will perform the following tasks, including, but not limited to:
• Proactively and iteratively detect, isolate, and neutralize cyber threats that evade other security solutions.
• Cyber Hunt tasks include but are not limited to: collecting intrusion artifacts and using discovered data to enable mitigation of potential cybersecurity incidents within enterprise; coordinating with and providing expert technical support to cybersecurity technicians to resolve cybersecurity incidents; and correlating incident data to identify specific vulnerabilities, and make recommendations that enable expeditious remediation.
• Deliver Cyber Hunt Report including artifact list, summary of potential incidents and resolved incidents, and remediation recommendations for vulnerabilities found based on previous incident data.