Cyber Research Development Senior Apply
Seeking a Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst to join our dynamic team and support with Cyber Threat Intelligence products, management of adversary indicators of compromise, tracking and monitoring of adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures, and leading cyber threat intelligence collaboration internally and externally to our Intelligence Community (IC) customer.
This position will provide support for defensive cyber operations activities and will be expected to actively engage with multiple IC customers and mission partners, anticipating their needs, and delivering flawlessly.
Responsibilities:
- Interact effectively with senior management at all levels, both internally and externally.
- Provide comprehensive support and issue tracking for multiple IC organizations and partners, handling database queries, metrics and trend reports.
- Support the team in areas such as cyber fusion and hunt mission, RFIs, customer/mission partner engagement, and potential to serve as people leader/manager.
- Collaborate closely with other departments to strengthen response efforts.
- Maintain situational awareness of cyber activity by reviewing DoD, IC and open-source reporting for new vulnerabilities, malware or other threats that have the potential to impact the IC environment.
- Conduct cyber defense trend analysis and generate insightful reports to improve security posture.
- Extensive understanding of cyber threats, attack vectors, methods, attacks, and countermeasures along with knowledge of threat-based frameworks, such as MITRE ATT&CK.
- Synthesize, summarize, consolidate and share potentially malicious activities on the IC environment with IC and mission partner organizations by creating incident reports, SARs, Confluence updates, Tippers, Threat Cards and other notifications.
- Assist in providing threat and vulnerability analysis as well as security advisory services and recommendations.
- Maintain threat intelligence platform used for sharing, storing, and receiving information about cybersecurity threats, malware, and vulnerabilities.
- Ensure contract deliverables and SLA performance consistently meet or exceed target quality standards.
- Review written deliverables to ensure they meet quality assurance benchmarks.
Requirements
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree and 8 – 12 years related experience in Information Systems, Computer Science or related field or a Master’s with 6 – 10 years of related experience.
- Must have an active Top Secret/SCI with Polygraph security clearance
- Minimum of 4 years of work experience as an intelligence analyst or cyber threat intelligence analyst with a minimum of 1 year of cyber threat experience.
- Ability to provide concise, articulate, polished writing of analytic documents, summaries, issue papers, talking points, and briefings.
- Demonstrated proficiency working in a fast-paced collaborative environment and ability to proactively multi-task and meet short deadlines.
- Strong interpersonal, critical thinking, and communication skills, including the ability to clearly convey complex and technical data to nontechnical customers.
Preferred Qualifications:
- DoD 8570 IAT Level II required (i.e., Security+, CND, GICSP, GSEC, SSCP) or IAM Level II (i.e., CISSP, CISM, GSLC, CCISO)
- Over five years of experience working with the Intelligence Community (IC) and/or Fusion centers.
- Knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK framework.
- Experience in intelligence driven defense and/or Cyber Kill Chain (CKC) methodology; knowledge of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) and other cyber threat modeling frame works.
CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT:
- TS/SCI w/Poly Required
- U.S. Citizenship Required
- Federal Employment Suitability
- E-Verify Eligibility Required*
ASG is an equal-opportunity employer (EEO)
*ASG participates in the USCIS Electronic Employment Eligibility Verification Program (E-Verify). E-Verify helps employers determine the employment eligibility of new hires and the validity of their social security numbers.
Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Open Leave
- Dental insurance
- 401(k)
- Vision insurance
- Tuition reimbursement
- Life insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Disability insurance
- Retirement plan
- Referral program
- Health savings account
- Flexible spending account