IT Cyber Analyst

Founded in 1999 in the beautiful Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee, Cadre5 provides innovative technical solutions to our customers locally and nationally. Our Cadre5 Lab Partners division has partnered with The Information Technology Services Direct prate (ITSD) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to hire a IT Cyber Analyst to immediately support their Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO) team. T his position’s primary responsibility is to conduct event triage in a tiered operational security model while training in and supporting threat hunting and threat intelligence tasks.

ORNL delivers scientific discoveries and technical breakthroughs needed to realize solutions in energy and national security and provides economic benefit to the nation. This premier research institution located near Knoxville in Oak Ridge, TN, addresses national needs through impactful research and world-leading research centers.

This is a full-time, permanent position that will work onsite in Oak Ridge, TN 2-3 days each week.

• Working with highly talented team members
• Excellent medical insurance, including employer-paid benefits

• Support the DCO environment in identification and analysis of threats in Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM) alerts, dashboards, and queries
• Resolve or escalation alerts/events/incidents as defined in DCO service level agreements according to level of severity
• Help develop advanced queries and alerts to detect adversary actions and compile detailed investigation and analysis reports for internal DCO consumption, and for delivery to management
• Work with the Emerging Threat team to capture intelligence on threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and leverage automated and manual countermeasures in response
• Work with the ORNL Threat Hunting team to perform hypothesis-driven hunts of the ORNL network for undetected threats
• Field customer requests for support ranging from potential phishing events to abnormal system activity
• Triage reports from DOE entities, CISA, and external penetration testers, and coordinate resolution with ORNL system administrators in keeping with BOD 18-01, 19-02, and 22-01 requirements
• Analyze suspicious links and attachments in a secure malware analytics platform as part of a comprehensive phishing analysis procedure
• Triage malware and anomalous activity alerts generated by an EDR system

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field with 1-2 years of cyber operations work experience
• Experience with Service Now, JIRA Service Desk, or other ticketing system
• The position requires eligibility to obtain a DOE security clearance. This requires US Citizenship.
  
  Candidates with an Active Q Clearance or Top-Secret Clearance are a plus.

Cadre5 is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants, including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans, are encouraged to apply. Cadre5 is an E-Verify Employer.