Cyber Incident Handler / 1st Shift
Peraton
- Beltsville, MD
- $86,000-138,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Support the Cyber Incident Response Team (CIRT).
- Detect, classify, process, track, and report on cyber security events and incidents.
- Coordinate and collaborate with internal teams as needed to analyze and respond to events and incidents.
- Perform triage and response capabilities 24x7x365.
- Monitor and triage the CIRT hotline, email in-boxes, and fax.
- Create tickets and initiate workflows as instructed in SOPs.
- Report incident information to the U.S. CERT.
- Collaborate with other local, national, and international CIRTs as directed.
- Deliver and oversee remediation activities.
- Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 2 years’ relevant experience. An additional 4 years of experience may be substituted for degree requirement.
- The ability to support 1st shift, Sunday through Thursday, 6:00 AM – 2:00 PM, EST.
- Experience collecting and analyzing event information and performing threat or target analysis.
- Experience supporting operations related to persistent monitoring on a 24/7 basis of all designated networks, enclaves, and systems.
- Demonstrated competence in managing and executing first-level responses and addressing reported or detected incidents.
- Comfort level with reporting to and coordinating with external organizations and authorities.
- Background in coordinating and distributing directives, vulnerability, and threat advisories to identified consumers.
- Possess at least ONE of the following certifications:
- CCNA-Security, CND, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, or SSCP certification.
- U.S. citizenship and an active Secret security clearance.