Cyber Security Operations Specialist II - CSOC Tier 2

Location

Springfield, VA | United States

Job description

About RISA

In this time of rapid change, as technologies expand at lightning speed, RISA seeks to remain at the forefront - applying them in unique ways to address our customers’ challenges and providing our employees with engaging career opportunities. We seek professionals excited by a challenge and focused on assisting our customers to reach their goals. At RISA, our success comes from the talent and commitment of our employees. As a team, we share the challenges and rewards of providing valuable services to our customers. Come along for the journey and be part of our growth and success.

Job Description

Employment Type: Full-Time

Experience Level: Mid-Senior Level

Clearance Level: Top Secret/SCI

Travel Requirement: None

Position Overview

Provide CSOC Tier 2 services, 24x7x365 coordination, execution, and implementation of all actions required for the containment, eradication, and recovery measures for events and incidents. CSOC Tier 2 services include malware and implant analysis and forensic artifact handling and analysis. When a CIRT is stood up, all contractors in support of CSOC Tier 2 services will be under the direct control of, and take direction from, the Government CIRT Commander. While not in a period of incident response, conduct continuous exercises and dry runs to improve response outcomes in the event of a cyber-incident.

More About Your Role

• Coordinate and implement tasks, performing analysis, and building/documenting response activities required during cyber security incident response, including but not limited to actions such as implementing containment measures, IP blocks, domain blocks, and disabling user accounts on the direction of the Government.
• Coordinates with Security and Installations Directorate (SI) Office of Counterintelligence (SIC), Insider Threat Office, in addition to other law enforcement and counterintelligence personnel as required to perform advanced investigation and triage of incidents.
• Collaborates with appropriate authorities in the production of security incident reports.
• Categorizes incidents and events.
• Coordinates with other contracts, organizations, activities, and other services as appropriate to ensure incidents are properly reported, contained, and eradicated.
• Coordinates with other contracts, organizations, activities, and other services as appropriate to de-conflict blue/red team activity with open incidents/events.
• Coordinates with other contracts, organizations, activities, and services to ensure NGA recovers from an incident/event.
• Builds timelines, documents, briefings, and other products as required to inform stakeholders of incident response actions, analysis, and the impact of adversary activity and blue force response actions.
• Documents actions taken and analysis in the authorized ticketing system to a level of detail where the actions taken and analysis are capable of being systematically reconstructed.
• When approved by the Government, develop and update reports in the Joint Incident Management System (JIMS), Incident Case Management System (ICMS), and/or other authorized reporting systems as directed.
• Develops, maintains, sustains, and, when properly authorized by the Government, executes custom scripts, tools, and capabilities to collect and analyze data and to respond to incidents/events.
• Performs digital media analysis on host, server, and network data as required to analyze and respond to an incident, including but not limited to volatile and non-volatile memory and/or system artifact collection and analysis.
• Develops and identifies indicators of compromise to send to Cybersecurity stakeholders and other Contract Services.
• Provides adversary attribution.
• Performs malware analysis and signature development.
• Provides input to and coordinates with all applicable stakeholders to develop and deliver the daily CSOC Significant Activity Report, the daily CSOC Operations Update, and the Weekly CSOC Status Report.
• Serve as C-IRT members as required and serve under the direct control of, and take direction from, the Government C-IRT Commander.
• Develop and coordinate courses of action with various Government and contract stakeholders, and when properly authorized by the Government, execute Defensive Cyberspace Operations-Internal Defensive Measures on behalf of the NGA on NGA networks and systems.
• Performs digital media analysis and malware reverse engineering on host, server, and network data as required to analyze and respond to an incident, including but not limited to volatile and non-volatile memory and/or system artifact collection and analysis.
• When properly authorized by the Government, execute custom scripts, tools, and capabilities to collect and analyze data and to respond to incidents/events.
• Develops, documents, and provides the Government incident investigation reports, which include sufficient information to document the entire lifecycle of the incident and the response, including but not limited to adversary and friendly forces activity, host and network analysis, timelines, and recommendations for corrective actions, recommendations for new Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTP) and other recommendations as appropriate, within 30 days of C-IRT stand-down.
• Conduct Quality Control reviews of a percentage of closed CSOC Tier 2 tickets each week to ensure proper analysis, categorization, documentation, and notification.

You'll Bring These Qualifications

• Must be a US Citizen with an Active TS/SCI to start work but required to obtain a CI Poly within 6 months.
• Typically has a University Degree (BA/BS) or equivalent experience and a minimum 4 years of related work experience.
• All Contractor personnel performing CSOC Tier 3 services shall have a certification compliant with DoD 8140.01 and DoD 8570.01-M IAT Level II and CSSP Analyst Certification.
• Ability to work 1 or more of 5 work shifts.

These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have

• IAT Level III certification.
• Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
• 5+ years of related CSOC tier 2 or 3 work experience.

Work Environment

Professional Office Environment: Must be able to sit at a desktop or laptop computer for extended periods of time.

Physical Demands

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, talk, hear, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer and telephone.
• Must be able to communicate regularly via telephone and verbally present information to employees, customers, and outside vendors.

Expected Hours of Work

40 hours per week based on the customer’s core operating hours.

Benefits

RISA offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision insurance; company-paid disability; life insurance; retirement savings plans: 401(k) and Roth; Paid Time Off; and 11 paid Federal Holidays.

Equal Opportunity Employer

RISA is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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