Cyber Incident and Threat Analyst

Overview

Who we are and why you should join us: As a consultant at Partner Forces, you will serve as a trusted advisor to our clients’ day-in and day-out. You will collaborate with colleagues, our partners, and our clients to ideate, initiate and complete tasks, projects, and initiatives. You will work on mission-oriented projects, bringing forward actionable insights, solving complex problems, and delivering meaningful solutions.

Partner Forces is grounded in our core values of integrity, excellence, positivity, candor, determination, and teamwork. Our culture reflects these values and ensures that we:

• Apply solution-oriented thinking to challenges and opportunities.
• Thrive by remaining agile and embracing change.
• Work to create an environment where everyone feels welcome and valued as teammates and contributors.
• Bring out the best in others by applying sound judgment and principled genuineness.
• Embrace a continuous learning and growth mindset.
• Encourage open dialogue even when it is hard.
• Continuously promote teamwork and collaboration to achieve the best outcomes for our clients and teams.

As an employee at Partner Forces, you’ll join a team of consultants who share a passion for prioritizing collaboration, crafting solutions to mitigate risk, protecting critical infrastructure, and helping our national security and industry partners tackle their most pressing challenges. We take our employees’ well-being and growth seriously and offer a wide array of benefits that support personal and professional development.

The Cyber Incident and Threat Analyst will provide cyber threat intelligence (CTI) and cybersecurity triage and analysis to support incident response and vulnerability management operations. This role demands high-quality cybersecurity incident triage and assessments.

• Perform cyber defense incident triage and recommend incident remediation strategies.
• Determine the scope, urgency, and impact of cyber defense incidents.
• Correlate threat assessment and incident data.
• Identify and characterize intrusion activities against victims or targets, and profile targets and their activities.
• Develop cybersecurity indicators to maintain awareness of the dynamic operating environment.
• Identify near-term changes in adversary tactics, techniques, procedures, and technology.
• Report changes in patterns and trends within cybersecurity incidents in correlation with changing environmental factors.
• Provide descriptive and predictive analysis by fusing information from multiple reports.
• Demonstrate experience with Mitre ATT&CK and other analytic frameworks.
• Develop and document repeatable and effective processes for SOPs and WIs.
• Correlate incident data to identify patterns and trends within cybersecurity incidents.
• Generate requests for information and identify information essential to fill information gaps.

• US Citizen (the nature of our contract requires employees be US citizens).
• Top Secret clearance required.
• 10 years of experience.
• This position requires shift work. Shifts are 6 AM - 2 PM, 2 PM - 10 PM and 10 PM - 6 AM.
• This position reports to St. Elizabeth's Campus in WDC.
• Analysts will work 4 days onsite and one day remote.
• Bachelor's degree preferred.
• Experience with Mitre ATT&CK strongly recommended.
• Demonstrated expertise in identifying and mitigating cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to conduct in-depth triage and support research and analysis.
• Relevant certifications such as Security+ or CISSP.

At Partner Forces, we consider many factors when making compensation decisions, reflecting the unique skills and experiences each candidate brings, as well as organizational and contractual needs. An estimate of the salary range for this role is provided below. We believe salary is one component of total compensation and we aim to support growth and reward contributions meaningfully during the interview process.

Annual Salary Range

$135,000—$160,000 USD

Partner Forces, LLC is a management consulting firm specializing in helping homeland security partners tackle their most pressing and complex challenges. We provide holistic, integrated solutions across the homeland and national security enterprise, offering expertise in program development and analysis, stakeholder engagement, strategic planning, technology implementation, security and preparedness assessment, and business process improvement.

Partner Forces is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are committed to fostering a workplace where all employees feel valued and respected. If you are unable to submit your application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at