Cybersecurity Defense Infrastructure Analyst

Idaho National Laboratory requires Cybersecurity Defense Infrastructure Analysts to safeguard the computing environments that enable cutting‑edge nuclear research and energy innovation. You'll identify and prioritize protection of critical cyber defense infrastructure, develop and maintain technical controls, analyze compliance with regulations and organizational directives, and conduct vulnerability assessments of computing environments and network infrastructure. Your responsibilities include building and configuring dedicated cyber defense hardware, administering specialized systems like firewalls and intrusion prevention platforms, managing network access control lists, and monitoring external threat sources to maintain current awareness of cybersecurity conditions.

You'll coordinate with intelligence analysts and cyber defense teams while implementing Risk Management Framework requirements for systems that protect America's energy future.

• Assist in identifying, prioritizing, and coordinating the protection of critical cyber defense infrastructure and key resources. Employ approved defense‑in‑depth principles and practices (e.g., defense‑in‑multiple places, layered defenses, security robustness).
• Develop, implement, and maintain cybersecurity technical controls and operational systems.
• Analyze our cyber defense policies and configurations and evaluate compliance with regulations and organizational directives. Coordinate with intelligence analysts to correlate threat assessment data.
• Develop and conduct cybersecurity‑related human performance improvement projects.
• Build, install, configure, and test dedicated cyber defense hardware.
• Perform system administration on specialized cyber defense applications and systems (e.g., antivirus, audit, remediation) or Virtual Private Network (VPN) devices, including installation, configuration, maintenance, backup, and restoration.
• Administer test beds, and test and evaluate applications, hardware infrastructure, rules/signatures, access controls, and configurations of platforms managed by service providers.
• Create, edit, and manage network access control lists on specialized cyber defense systems (e.g., firewalls and intrusion prevention systems). Identify potential conflicts with the implementation of any cyber defense tools (e.g., tool and signature testing and optimization).
• Monitor external data sources (e.g., cyber defense vendor sites, Computer Emergency Response Teams, Security Focus) to maintain currency of cyber defense threat conditions and determine which security issues may have an impact on the enterprise.
• Coordinate with Cyber Defense Analysts to manage and administer the updating of rules and signatures (e.g., intrusion detection/protection systems, antivirus, and content blacklists) for specialized cyber defense applications.
• Identify potential conflicts with the implementation of any cyber defense tools (e.g., tool and signature testing and optimization).
• Follow software and systems engineering life cycle standards and processes. Develop applicable metrics and monitor results.
• Implement Risk Management Framework (RMF)/Security Assessment and Authorization (SA&A) requirements for dedicated cyber defense systems within the enterprise, and document and maintain records.

• Bachelor’s degree in a related technical field, computer science, computer engineering and 9 years of relevant experience; or a Master’s degree in a related technical field, computer science, computer engineering and 6 years of relevant experience.
• Must be a US Citizen and have an active DOE “Q” clearance, or equivalent DOD/DOJ security clearance.

• Relevant certifications including but not limited to: CISA, CEH, CISSP, CISM, Security+, NSA COMSEC Manager.
• Communication Security (COMSEC) experience.
• Direct technical experience working in Enhanced Security Environments.

While performing the duties of this classification, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, stoop, kneel, bend, and work in an office and laboratory environment. The job requires hand/finger dexterity…