Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Company: Alpha Omega
Alpha Omega was created with a passion to serve our nation by providing unparalleled value in government contracting and homeland security.
Job Title: Top Secret IT Security Specialist
Location: Dept Of Treasury – 1500 Penn Avenue (Main Treasury Building) - SCIF
Shift: Night shift 6PM to 6AM in Panama Shift (4-3, 3-4 shift)
Clearance Required: TS/SCI
Position Description/Scope of Work:
Alpha Omega is looking for a Security Operations Center (SOC) Analyst with hands-on experience monitoring, detecting, and analyzing threats and cybersecurity events to identify and defend against validated intrusion events. Daily work includes monitoring network and system security events, conducting threat hunting through event data and activity logs, developing alarms for suspicious or malicious activity, escalating alerts to clients, and preparing reports to summarize detected activities.
The SOC Analyst will perform SOC and Incident Response services that comply with Treasury policies and major cyber security mandates set forth in the Memorandum on Improving the Cybersecurity of National Security, Department of Defense, and Intelligence Community Systems NSM – 8.
Responsibilities:
- AWS TS cloud provides processing, analytics, storage, and network cloud services that enhance stability.
- Provides detection, identification, and reporting of possible cyber-attacks/intrusions, anomalous activities, and misuse activities.
- Administer technologies that directly support cyber security and security incident and event management.
- Provide operational support for identity management, privileged user access, access control, endpoint protection, internet protection, and vulnerability scanning.
- Enforce cyber security policy and participate in incident response events.
- Interpret internal or external business processes and recommend best practices solutions.
- Participate in post-incident activities and contribute to lessons learned to improve security operations.
- Incident report acceptance and coordination.
- Real-time monitoring and triage.
- Work with Treasury counterparts to help plan and manage the overall effort to complete the tasks.
- Containment, eradication, and recovery.
- Forensic artifact and malware analysis.
- Fly-Away Incident response.
- Continuity of Operations (COOP).
Required Skills:
- Minimum Years of Overall Experience: Three (03) or more years of relevant experience in an Enterprise IT security environment.
- Experience completing and/or analyzing SCAP Vulnerability scans and DISA STIGs.
Required Certification(s):
- None.
Desired Certification(s):
- None.
Required Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology Management, Engineering, or other comparable degree.