The Role
Lead and advise cybersecurity professionals on incident response across diverse networks, platforms, and tools. Analyze security logs, network traffic, malware reports, and advanced intrusions; execute response playbooks and digital forensics; coordinate threat mitigation with IT and security teams; and advise on security policies, risk management, and compliance. The role requires strong communication, technical editing, DoD cybersecurity experience, and support for classified systems in a full-time onsite environment with possible rotational shifts.
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Description of Task to be Performed:
AnaVation is seeking an experienced cyber professional to join our team and support our mission critical customer in Reston, VA. As the Incident Response Lead/Advisor, you will advise/mentor/coach a team of cyber security professionals on best practices regarding incident responses on a variety of networks, platforms, and tools. Your previous experience working collaboratively across cross-functional teams/staff, at multiple levels, to deliver short-term, medium-term, and long-term response efforts would drive customer and program success.
Required Qualifications:
- Clearance: U.S. Citizen, TS/SCI w/CI Poly
- Education: Bachelor's degree in a relevant field
- Certification: DoD 8570 IAT Level II (CySA+) within 30 days of contract start
- Location: Full time, on-site position in Reston, VA.
- Experience:
- 8 years of experience (or 6 years of experience with a relevant Master’s Degree) with identifying, analyzing, and responding to security incidents such as cyberattacks, data breaches, and system vulnerabilities.
- Monitoring and analyzing security logs and network traffic to detect anomalies
- Executing IR playbooks and conducting digital forensics
- Collaborating with IT and security teams to mitigate threats and prevent recurrence
- Advising on security policies, risk management, and compliance
These roles often require rotational shifts to ensure 24x7 coverage, especially in large enterprises and financial institutions - Knowledge of cyber adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures, along with analysis of advanced intrusions across a complex global network and basic cyber-security forensics procedures.
- Understanding of how to read and interpret malware analysis reports.
- Strong oral and written communications skills and ability to interact effectively with technical and non-technical audiences.
- Excellent technical editing of formal report production and related skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker)
- GCIH (GIAC Certified Incident Handler)
- GCIA (GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst)
- Cyber Mission Force analyst or operator experience
- Management experience
- Experience with DoD cybersecurity operations
- Experience with classified system information assurance
Benefits
- Generous cost sharing for medical insurance for the employee and dependents
- 100% company paid dental insurance for employees and dependents
- 100% company paid long-term and short-term disability insurance
- 100% company paid vision insurance for employees and dependents
- 401k plan with generous match and 100% immediate vesting
- Competitive Pay
- Generous paid leave and holiday package
- Tuition and training reimbursement
- Life and AD&D Insurance
About AnaVation
AnaVation is the leader in solving the most complex technical challenges for collection and processing in the U.S. Federal Intelligence Community. We are a US owned company headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia. We deliver groundbreaking research with advanced software and systems engineering that provides an information advantage to contribute to the mission and operational success of our customers. We offer complex challenges, a top-notch work environment, and a world-class, collaborative team.
If you want to grow your career and make a difference while doing it, AnaVation is the perfect fit for you!
AnaVation is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Skills Required
- U.S. citizenship
- TS/SCI with CI Poly clearance
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field
- DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification, such as CySA+, within 30 days of contract start
- 8 years of experience identifying, analyzing, and responding to security incidents, or 6 years with a relevant master's degree
- Experience monitoring and analyzing security logs and network traffic to detect anomalies
- Experience executing incident response playbooks and conducting digital forensics
- Experience collaborating with IT and security teams to mitigate threats and prevent recurrence
- Experience advising on security policies, risk management, and compliance
- Knowledge of cyber adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures
- Experience analyzing advanced intrusions across complex global networks
- Basic cybersecurity forensics knowledge
- Ability to read and interpret malware analysis reports
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Excellent technical editing and formal report production skills
- Certified Ethical Hacker certification
- GIAC Certified Incident Handler certification
- GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst certification
- Cyber Mission Force analyst or operator experience
- Management experience
- Experience with Department of Defense cybersecurity operations
- Experience with classified system information assurance
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The Company
What We Do
AnaVation is a trusted partner that delivers high-value, cost-effective solutions to solve our customers’ most complex technical and analytical problems. AnaVation believes that the future of securing, collecting, processing, and analyzing cyber data will require the development of advanced ANAlytical technologies derived via the innoVATION of current and future technologies. AnaVation believes in the “Idea of the Possible” — that it is possible for our experts, partnering with our customers in the right environment, to create innovative technical solutions that expand our customers’ capabilities. We want to do two things for our customers. We want to resolve existing challenges and we want to prepare them for the future. Our technical expertise and innovative engineering culture enable us to do those things.
