CSOS Analyst - Tier 2

CSOS Analyst - Tier 2

Job Category:
Information Technology
Time Type:
Full time
Minimum Clearance Required to Start: TS/SCI
Employee Type:
Regular
Percentage of

Travel Required:

Up to 10%
Type of Travel:
Local

Provide CSOC Tier 2 services, which is 24x7x365 coordination, execution, and implementation of all actions required for the containment, eradication, and recovery measures for events and incidents. CSOC Tier 2 services includes malware and implant analysis, and forensic artifact handling and analysis. When a CIRT is stood up, all contractors in support of CSOC Tier 2 services will be under the direct control of, and take direction from, the Government CIRT Commander.

While not in a period of incident response, the Contractor shall conduct continuous exercises and dry runs to improve response outcomes in the event of a cyber‑incident.

• Coordinate and implement tasks, performing analysis, and building/documenting response activities required during cyber security incident response, to include but not limited to actions such as implementing containment measures, IP blocks, domain blocks, and disabling user accounts on direction of the Government.
• Coordinate with Security and Installations Directorate (SI) Office of Counterintelligence (SIC), Insider Threat Office (SIII), in addition to other law enforcement and counter intelligence personnel as required to perform advanced investigation and triage of incidents.
• Collaborate with appropriate authorities in the production of security incident reports.
• Category incidents and events.
• Coordinate with other contracts, organizations, activities, and other services as appropriate to ensure incidents are properly reported, contained, and eradicated.
• Coordinate with other contracts, organizations, activities, and other services as appropriate to de‑conflict blue / red team activity with open incidents/events.
• Build timelines, documents, briefings, and other products as required to inform stakeholders of incident response actions, analysis, and the impact of both adversary activity and blue force response actions.
• Document actions taken and analysis in the authorized ticketing system to a level of detail where the actions taken and analysis are capable of being systematically reconstructed.
• Develop and when approved by the Government generate and update reports in the Joint Incident Management System (JIMS), Incident Case Management System (ICMS), and/or other authorized reporting systems as directed.
• Develop, maintain, sustain, and when properly authorized by the Government execute custom scripts, tools, and capabilities to collect and analyze data, and to respond to incidents/events.
• Perform digital media analysis on host, server, and network data as required to analyze and respond to an incident, to include but not limited to volatile and non‑volatile memory and/or system artifact collection and analysis.
• Develop and identify indicators of compromise to send to Cybersecurity stakeholders and other Contract Services.
• Provide adversary attribution.
• Perform malware analysis and signature development.
• Provide input to and coordinate with all applicable stakeholders to develop and deliver the daily CSOC Significant Activity Report, the daily CSOC Operations Update, and the Weekly CSOC Status Report.
• Serve as C‑IRT members as required and serve under the direct control of, and take direction from, the Government C‑IRT Commander.

• 4+ years of experience working in the CSOS environment.
• Must be a US Citizen with an Active TS/SCI to start work, but required to obtain a CI Poly within 6 months.
• Typically has a University Degree (BA/BS) or equivalent experience and minimum 4 years of related work.
• DoD 8140.01 and DoD 8570.01-M IAT Level II and CSSP Analyst Certifications.
• IAT Level III (desired).

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