Cybersecurity Threat Analyst

Company Overview
Development InfoStructure LLC., (Devis) is a leading provider of innovative software development, management, and consulting services, specializing in cutting-edge technologies such as DevSecOps, AI, and Machine Learning. With over 30 years of experience as a small business, we have established ourselves as a trusted partner for government agencies, delivering tailored, mission-critical solutions that drive digital transformation and operational excellence. Our client-centric approach, coupled with our deep domain expertise and technical prowess, enables us to forge enduring relationships and consistently deliver high-impact, adaptive solutions that resonate with the unique needs of the public sector.

Our primary mission is to best serve the needs of our clients by solutioning with our stakeholder teams to ensure that the goals and objectives of our customers are proactively solutioned, such that opportunities to invest our time in developing long-term solutions and assets are abundant and move our clients forward efficiently.

At Devis, we are enthusiastic about our research, our work and embracing an environment where all are supported in the mission, while maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

Overview

In this technical and hands-on role you will focus on researching threats posed by cyber criminals to various systems, technologies, operations, and programs. You will analyze and conduct research to determine a cyber criminal’s capabilities, intentions, and attack approaches, including those with multiple phases. You will be responsible for proactively threat hunting and identifying malicious attacks against the organization's systems and infrastructure by utilizing various security tools such as Splunk and Tanium. In addition, you will be responsible for supporting remediation of any discovered threats and providing incident response. You will be collaborating hand in hand with Cloud and Splunk Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) & Engineers in RPC’s Security Operations Team, and when necessary you will support them with engineering, upgrading, updating and fine-tuning various security tools.

This role will also include developing and documenting new and innovative threat hunting and incident response processes to increase and mature the security operation center team’s ability to find existing threats that are otherwise going unidentified or unnoticed. This role is hybrid with the option for full-time remote.

Responsibilities

• Solid knowledge for building and designing queries, reports, and dashboard in Splunk Enterprise in order to extract log information from various sources and conduct threat hunting and incident response.
• Support Cyber Security Operations Team with Engineering Tasks including implementation, upgrade, update and maturing new Security Tool Sets when applicable.
• Utilize EDR, IDS, and other security tools to conduct cyber threat hunts and incident response.
• Rapidly respond, escalate, and remediate incidents to minimize risk exposure and ensure system availability; proactively monitor internal and external-facing environments.
•  Identify attacker tools, tactics, and procedures to develop indicators of compromise. Form and articulate expert opinions based on findings and analysis.
• Seek opportunities to automate detection and remediation and reduce response times for incidents.
• Provide incident response support and coordination, including investigating security incidents and coordinating with other teams to contain and remediate the incident.
• Producing reports, metrics, and briefings that include perspectives on the behavior of adversaries.
• Collaborate and support documentation is complete and in compliance with information security policies pertaining to incident response and security monitoring our systems.
• Manage and support development of security operations playbooks to ensure threat detection, monitoring, response, and forensics activities align with best practices, minimize gaps in detection and response, and provide comprehensive mitigation of threats.
• Support the team with evaluation of third-party products and services to verify they meet security and compliance requirements.
• Develops technical solutions to autonomously verify compliance with required technical controls.
• Present findings/reports to stakeholders on a weekly basis Experience with more than one or more enterprise scale EDR and SIEM tool.
• Experience consuming and analyzing Cyber Threat Intelligence for actionable takeaways.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• BA/BS OR Equivalent combination of education, technical training and certification (CISSP, CEH, GIAC GREM, GCTI, GCFR, GCFA, Splunk Certified Cybersecurity Defense Analyst, Splunk Enterprise Security Certified Admin) and/or work experience.
• 5-7 years of hands-on experience in similar work.
• Experience in a cloud environment (console, IAM, security groups, etc.).
• Experienced in creating and fine-tuning notables, alerts, and dashboards in Splunk.
• Experience in building Splunk Technology Add-ons and configuring field extractions for various data sources.
• Experience analyzing system, network, and application logs for attack techniques at all stages of the cyber kill chain or MITRE ATTACK Framework.
• Familiarity with ServiceNow cloud offering.
• Familiarity with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Ansible.
• Experience in Tanium Modules (Asset, Threat Response, Comply, Protect) to conduct Incident response and threat hunting.

Clearance Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance.
• Active Secret Clearance.

Additional Perks/Benefits

• Competitive Salary Compensation.
• 401k Retirement Contribution Savings Plan.

Salary Range

• Salary starting at $100,000.