Duties and Responsibilities:
- Monitor, protect, and defend the enterprise perimeter against malicious network traffic.
- Monitor, protect, and defend internal networks and hosts against ongoing and emerging threats.
- Enrich monitoring logs with contextual operation data from functional areas correlate events and identify security issues, threats, and vulnerabilities
- Conduct security event analysis and validation, triage validated incidents, perform initial containment where feasible, research incident and enrich incident case documentation, and escalate incident for further analysis, containment, and eradication.
- Review and analyze threat intelligence information and proactively search application, system, network logs to hunt for and thwart relevant threats identified threats.
- Prepare and perform shift handover briefing to communicate completed and pending activities, and relay situational awareness information.
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of SOC Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Concept of Operations (CONOPS) to establish and continuously improve organization operating knowledge base.
- Participate in post-incident activities and contribute to lessons learned to improve security operations.
- Provide support in preparation of management threat reports and briefings, and recommendations.
- Provide sound technical recommendations that enable remediation of security issues.
- Partner with security engineering to develop and refine SIEM correlation rules.
- Utilize advanced threat models, SIEM use cases, and incident response playbooks.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with a major in computer science, information systems, engineering, business, or a related scientific or technical disciplines. Master's Degree is preferred.
- CompTIA CySA+ certification/ or a CompTIA Security+ (or other relevant IAT Level II/III Certification) along with one of the following:
CEH
CFR
CCNA Cyber Ops
CCNA-Security
GCIA
GCIH
GICSP
Cloud+
SCYBER
PenTest+
- Experience analyzing intrusion events such phishing emails, malware, privileges misuse, traffic indicating potential malicious activities such DoS/DDoS, brute force, data loss through exfiltration/ inadvertent disclosure.
- Applied experience of threat analysis model/frameworks such Cyber Kill Chain, MITRE ATT&CK, Diamond Model, Pyramid of Pain etc.
- Working knowledge of advanced threat Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs).
- Applied experience with network traffic analysis with tools like Wireshark
- Applied experience with a variety of Opensource threat research tools/platforms such as Virus Total
- Working knowledge of network and security architecture principles such as defense-in-depth
- Experience with proprietary security protection/detections tools such as Firewall, Host and Network IDS/IPS, Anti-Virus, EDR, URL Filtering Gateways, Email Filtering Gateways, DLP tools, and SIEM tools such as Splunk etc.
- Capable of working independently, establishing priorities and managing task completion within set SLAs
- Able to communicate effectively through writing, speaking, and presenting to client technical representatives.
- Team player capable of productively contributing to the client mission by supporting fellow teammates in a dynamic growing and changing environment.
Desired Skills and Qualifications:
- Experience with mid-to-advance level malware analysis
- Experience creating detailed queries and scripts, such as regular expressions, for log, event and correlation analysis.
- Experience scripting in Python, PowerShell, VBScript
Min. Citizenship Status Required: US Citizen
Location: Crownsville, MD (100% onsite)
Shift: Day Shift
Physical Requirements: N/A
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Working at DMI
DMI is a diverse, prosperous, and rewarding place to work. Being part of the DMI family means we care about your wellbeing. We offer a variety of perks and benefits that help meet various interests and needs, while still having the opportunity to work directly with a number of our award-winning, Fortune 1000 clients. The following categories make up your DMI wellbeing:
- Convenience/Concierge - Virtual visits through health insurance, pet insurance, commuter benefits, discount tickets for movies, travel, and many other items to provide convenience.
- Development – Annual performance management, continuing education, and tuition assistance, internal job opportunities along with career enrichment and advancement to help each employee with their professional and personal development.
- Financial – Generous 401k matches both pre-tax and post-tax (ROTH) contributions along with financial wellness education, EAP, Life Insurance and Disability help provide financial stability for each DMI employee.
- Recognition – Great achievements do not go unnoticed by DMI through Annual Awards ceremony, service anniversaries, peer-to-peer acknowledgment, employee referral bonuses.
- Wellness – Healthcare benefits, Wellness programs, Flu Shots, Biometric screenings, and several other wellness options.
Employees are valued for their talents and contributions. We all take pride in helping our customers achieve their goals, which in turn contributes to the overall success of the company. The company does and will take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment individuals with disabilities and protected veterans, and to treat qualified individuals without discrimination based on their physical or mental disability or veteran status. DMI is an Equal Opportunity Employer Minority/Female/Veterans/Disability. DMI maintains a drug-free workplace.
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Applicants selected may be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. US citizenship may be required for some positions.
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