Full-Time Incident Response Analyst - Weekend Shift Lead (Tier 2)

Full-time Incident Response Analyst - Weekend Shift Lead (Tier 2) Department: SOC Location:

Job Description MindPoint Group is seeking a night shift team lead to support threat monitoring, detection, event analysis, and incident reporting. The Security Operations Center is a 24/7 environment. You will be responsible for monitoring enterprise networks and systems, detecting events, and reporting on any and all threats that are directed against those systems regardless of their classification level or type.

Typically, the client-s sensor grid acquires millions of events per day and events are analyzed and categorized in accordance with the Cyber Security Incident Response Plan. The Incident Response Analyst will provide the client with a fully comprehensive array of analytical activities in support of external threat monitoring, detection, event analysis, and incident reporting efforts including presentation reviews, internal and external threat reporting, analysis of inbound and outbound public internet traffic, suspicious e-mail messages, administering access request to specific public sites, communicating and coordinating the characterization of events and the response. What you get to do every day:

As Team Lead: Serve as the first point of escalation for triage of complicated alerts and investigation of incidents on your shift Provide mentorship and guidance to help other analysts learn and grow Manage watch schedules to ensure adequate on site and remote watch floor coverage Develop reports and deliverables as needed Escalate night shift issues to SOC Manager, including but not limited to analyst performance or behavior issues, tool or system degradation or outages, and concerning alerts or incidents per the escalation plan Provide support for complex computer network exploitation and defense techniques to include deterring, identifying, and investigating computer and network intrusions; providing incident response and remediation support Perform comprehensive computer surveillance/monitoring, identifying vulnerabilities; develop secure network designs and protection strategies, and conduct audits of information security infrastructure Provide technical support for forensics services to include evidence seizure, computer forensic analysis, and data recovery, in support of computer crime investigation Research and maintain proficiency in open and closed-source computer exploitation tools, attack techniques, procedures, and trends Perform research into emerging threat sources and develops threat profiles Provide technical support for a comprehensive risk management program identifying mission-critical processes and systems; current and projected threats; and system vulnerabilities Qualifications Applicable US Government Clearance required What skills do you need? Minimum of six (6) years of cybersecurity experience with at least three (3) years in a SOC watch floor analyst or IR role CISSP or CEH certification; additional experience, formal training, certifications, and/or education may be substitutable at the client's discretion Experience in some of the following SOC tools and technologies:

IDS/IPS, EDR, SIEM, XPS, FireEye, RSA Netwitness, Sourcefire (Snort), Silo, etc Strong analytical and organizational skills Strong verbal and written communication skills Experience with MS Word and other MS Office applications What is ideal? Bachelor-s Degree or higher in Cybersecurity or related is preferred Additional Cybersecurity training and/or certifications are preferred Location This is a hybrid role with expectations of being on the client site a minimum 2 nights on site. Shift: Tier 2 nights, Friday night shift (12 hours, on site), Saturday night shift (12 hours, on site), plus 2 other nights during the week. Minimum 2 nights on site at DOJ.