Tier 3 SOC Analyst

Tier 3 SOC Analyst-Long-Term Contract (Government)

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Tier 3 SOC Analyst

Washington, DC

Webcam Only

Monitoring, detecting, analyzing, remediating, and reporting on Cyber events and incidents impacting the tech infrastructure of the District of Columbia. Serves as advanced escalation point.

The SOC Analyst - Tier 3 is cybersecurity technical resource responsible for providing technical analytical oversight a team of SOC Analysts to monitor, detect, analyze, remediate, and report on cybersecurity events and incidents impacting the technology infrastructure of the Government of the District of Columbia. The ideal candidate will have an advanced technical background with significant experience in an enterprise successfully leading a SOC team or unit responsible for analysis and correlation of cybersecurity event, log, and alert data.

The candidate will be skilled in understanding, recognition, and root-cause detection of cybersecurity exploits, vulnerabilities, and intrusions in host and network-based systems.

• Utilize advanced technical background and experience in information technology and incident response handling to scrutinize and provide corrective analysis to escalated cybersecurity events from Tier 2 analysts—distinguishing these events from benign activities, and escalating confirmed incidents to the Incident Response Lead.
• Provide in-depth cybersecurity analysis, and trending/correlation of large data-sets such as logs, event data, and alerts from diverse network devices and applications within the enterprise to identify and troubleshoot specific cybersecurity incidents, and make sound technical recommendations that enable expeditious remediation.
• Proactively search through log, network, and system data to find and identify undetected threats.
• Support security tool/application tuning engagements with analysts and engineers to develop/adjust rules and analyze/develop related response procedures, and reduce false-positives from alerting.
• Identify, verify, and ingest indicators of compromise and attack (IOC’s, IOA’s) (e.g., malicious IPs/URLs, etc.) into network security tools/applications to protect the Government of the District of Columbia network.
• Quality-proof technical advisories and assessments prior to release from SOC.
• Coordinate with and provide expert technical support to enterprise-wide technicians and staff to resolve confirmed incidents.
• Report common and repeat problems, observed via trend analysis, to SOC management and propose process and technical improvements to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of alert notification and incident handling.
• Formulate and coordinate technical best-practice SOPs and Runbooks for SOC Analysts.
• Respond to inbound requests via phone and other electronic means for technical assistance, and resolve problems independently. Coordinate escalations with Incident Response Lead and collaborate with internal technology teams to ensure timely resolution of issues.

• Bachelor's Degree in Cyber Security or related area with minimum Five years of demonstrated operational experience as a cybersecurity analyst/engineer handling and coordinating cybersecurity incidents and response in critical environments, and/or equivalent knowledge in areas such as; technical incident handling and analysis, intrusion detection, log analysis, penetration testing, and vulnerability management.
• In-depth understanding of current cybersecurity threats, attacks and countermeasures for adversarial activities such as network probing and scanning, distributed denial of service (DDoS), phishing, ransomware, botnets, command and control (C2) activity, etc.
• In-depth…