Cyber Security Operations Specialist - Tier 2

ACTIVE TS/SCI SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIRED

This role is in anticipation of funded work. You will provide CSOC Tier 2 services, which is 24x7x365 coordination, execution, and implementation of all actions required for the containment, eradication, and recovery measures for events and incidents. CSOC Tier 2 services includes malware and implant analysis, and forensic artifact handling and analysis. While not in a period of incident response, you will conduct continuous exercises and dry runs to improve response outcomes in the event of a cyber-incident.

More about your role:

• Malware and implant analysis, and forensic artifact handling and analysis. While not in a period of incident response, you will conduct continuous exercises and dry runs to improve response outcomes in the event of a cyber incident.

• Coordinate and implement tasks, performing analysis, and building/documenting response activities required during cyber security incident response, to include but not limited to actions such as implementing containment measures, IP blocks, domain blocks, and disabling user accounts on direction of the Government

• Coordinate with Security and Installations Directorate (SI) Office of Counterintelligence (SIC), Insider Threat Office (SIII), in addition to other law enforcement and counterintelligence personnel as required to perform advanced investigation and triage of incidents

• Collaborate with appropriate authorities in the production of security incident reports

• Categorize incidents and events

• Coordinate with other contracts, organizations, activities, and other services as appropriate to ensure incidents are properly reported, contained, and eradicated

• Coordinate with other contracts, organizations, activities, and other services as appropriate to de-conflict blue / red team activity with open incidents/event and to ensure NGA recovers from an incident/event

• Build timelines, documents, briefings, and other products as required to inform stakeholders of incident response actions, analysis, and the impact of both adversary activity and blue force response actions

• Document 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

• Develop and when approved by the Government generates and updates reports in the Joint Incident Management System (JIMS), Incident Case Management System (ICMS), and/or other authorized reporting systems as directed

• Develop, maintain, sustain, and when properly authorized by the Government execute custom scripts, tools, and capabilities to collect and analyze data, and to respond to incidents/events